Embodiment of Evil
Encarnação do Demônio
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.
Why it matters
A brutal return to form for Brazil’s master of macabre, blending surreal dread with grotesque body horror in a relentless quest for perverse creation.
- José Mojica Marins embodies his iconic antihero Zé do Caixão with unhinged charisma and chilling menace.
- Practical effects and nightmarish visuals channel 70s grindhouse and folk horror through a distinctly Brazilian lens.
- A slow burn that thickens atmosphere with spectral hauntings and moral decay, perfect for fans of occult obsession and cosmic dread.
- Not for the faint-hearted — its grim tone and graphic violence test patience but reward with a uniquely unsettling meditation on life, death, and monstrous desire.
Director
10 horror films in catalog
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul 1964
This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse 1967
The Strange World of Coffin Joe 1968
The Awakening of the Beast 1970
The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe 1974
The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures 1976
Hellish Flesh 1977
Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind 1978
Embodiment of Evil 2008
Dark Fables 2015
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore
100
Slow Burn
50
Psychological
71
Supernatural
40
Creature
0
Disturbing
100
Fun Factor
33
Cerebral
43
Survival
33
