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O Ritual dos Sádicos
Awakening of the Beast
O Depertar da Besta / Das Erwachen der Bestie / Ritual of the Maniacs
Brazil 1970
produced by
Giorgio Attili, José Mojica Marins, George Michel Serkeis for Fotocena Filmes
directed by José Mojica Marins
starring José Mojica Marins, Sérgio Hingst, Ozualdo Ribeiro Candeias, Andreia Bryan, Lurdes Ribas, Mário Lima, Roney Wanderley, Helena Nogueira, Emilia Duarte, Graveto, José Carlos, Jaciara Ducena, Rosemeire Thiago, Palito, Luiz Renato, Paulo Morandy, Ronaldo Beibe, Stela Maris, Maria Cristina, Cláudio Marques, DAnte Miná, Jandira Gabriel, M;árcio Marcel, Ângelo Assuncao, Joao Callegaro, Maurice Capovila, Jairo Ferreira, Annik Malvil, Ítala Nandi, Walter Portela, Carlos Reichenbach
story by José Mojica Marins, screenplay by Rubens F.Lucchetti
Zé do Caixao/Coffin Joe
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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A group of psychiatrists discusses the effects of drugs on depravity,
so they spend some time telling each other sex-and-drugs stories. Actor
José Mojica Marins, creator of Zé do Caixao/Coffin Joe sits among them,
but doesn't contribute to the discussion. Eventually, the scientist
who has brought him comes under fire for testing LSD on four human guinea
pigs, so he tells his story which also explains the presence of José
Mojica Marins (well, sort of, anyways): Yes, he tested LSD on humans and
made Coffin Joe the subject of their LSD-trips (don't ask me how), and
they are all sent to their reespective private hells, with Joe presiding
over all of them. Point is, the scientist hasn't really administered his
testees LSD but merely a placebo, and this way he has proven that it's not
drugs that create depravity but humans themselves, the drugs merely act as
some sort of valve ...
In general, I'm a fan of Coffin
Joe, and I especially like the early films for their rawness - but
this film at hand is almost a disgrace. It looks as if Marins was trying
to give his utterly immoral creation some moral justification by making a
film that claims to investigate a phenomenon rather than telling a story,
and it tries to sneak an analysis of Coffin Joe the cultural
icon into the mix. The real problem here is that the film does so in an
utterly heavy-handed way, and all of the pseudo-scientific plotline and
the little stories our scientists tell seem to be nothing but a twisted
but nevertheless as unintentionally funny version of the German Schoolgirl
Report (which came out roughly the same time). Sure, the film
does eventually come to life in the sequence set in LSD-hell, when Marins
lets go of the film's pseudo-highbrow approach in favour of having some
surreal fun, and while these scenes are impressive in a triplike sort of
way, they are too little too late - and at the end of the day, one just
wishes the LSD-hell sequence could have been in another, better film ...
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