Embodiment of Evil
– After 30 years in a cell for the mentally ill, Coffin Joe is finally freed. Back on the streets, the..
After 30 years in a cell for the mentally ill, Coffin Joe is finally freed. Back on the streets, the sadistic gravedigger is set on fulfilling that for which he was imprisoned: find the woman who can give him the perfect child. During his wanderings through the city of Sao Paulo he leaves behind a trail of horror as he faces unnatural laws and popular beliefs.
08 Aug 2008
Portuguese
José Mojica Marins
Dennison Ramalho (screenplay), José Mojica Marins (screenplay)
José Mojica Marins, Jece Valadão, Adriano Stuart, Milhem Cortaz
After forty years in prison, the evil gravedigger Josefel Zanatas a.k.a. Zé do Caixão is released by the lawyer Lucy Pontes in accordance with Brazilian Laws. He moves to the slums with his followers that worship him, and he seeks out the perfect woman to bear his children while haunted by the ghosts of his victims. The vigilante brothers Captain Osvaldo Pontes and his brother Coronel Claudiomiro from the Military Police chase Zé do Caixão in the slums to kill him and they find a track of tortured and mutilated bodies.
12 wins & 4 nominations.
20th Century Fox