Embodiment of Evil

Embodiment of Evil (2008)

Encarnação do Demônio

The return of the master of horror

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.

Date of release
2008-08-08
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (46)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Horror, Thriller
Director
José Mojica Marins
Collection
Coffin Joe Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: São Paulo

Embodiment of Evil is a 2008 Brazilian horror film directed by and starring José Mojica Marins. The film was co-written with Dennison Ramalho. It is the third installment in his Coffin Joe trilogy, featuring Mojica Marins reprising his role as Zé do Caixão. The film is preceded by At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964) and This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967).

Production

Production on Embodiment of Evil spanned six years, including Dennison Ramalho re-writing the script with Mojica Marins. Despite Mojica Marins stating that Romalho would be a "worthy successor", Romalho convinced the director that Coffin Joe should be the center of Embodiment of Evil.

Mojica Marins' son, Crounel Marins, served as assistant director.

The actual filming took place over roughly 40 days, during which actor Jece Valadão died of kidney and breathing problems. All but two of the scenes involving his character, Colonel Pontes, had been filmed prior to his death, though a new character had to be written into the film to maintain continuity. Filming began on November 4, 2006, and concluded on December 20, 2006.

Embodiment of Evil was shot on location in São Paulo, with the sequence which includes Coffin Joe's death being filmed at the Playcenter amusement park. A sewer in Santana had been chosen as the location for the scene involving the naked Iemanjá, but was ultimately abandoned due to not being able to control the lighting. The Purgatory scenes had to be filmed in one day on location in a sand quarry in Itaquaquecetuba due to budget constraints.

Leny Dark filmed the scene involving 3000 cockroaches, during which she had to be transported to the hospital as one had entered her ear canal. In addition to the cockroaches, the film utilized 30 to 40 slugs, 20 spiders, 10 rats, 6 snakes, 3 lizards, and 2 bats. There were 650 extras employed, 180 of which were involved in a single scene.

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