At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul
À Meia Noite Levarei Sua Alma
Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to conceive with his wife, he kills her and sets out to find someone else.
Why it matters
A grim and groundbreaking dive into Brazilian folk horror that introduced the world to Zé do Caixão, cinema’s most unsettling undertaker.
- Cultivates an eerie, atmospheric dread with stark black-and-white cinematography that feels both raw and ritualistic.
- Pioneers Latin American horror, blending folklore, mysticism, and existential dread decades before international attention turned south.
- Zé do Caixão’s grotesque charisma anchors a story obsessed with legacy, death, and twisted patriarchy — a villain both repellent and mesmerizing.
- For fans of folk horror’s ritualistic unease and body horror’s obsession with the flesh as fate’s battleground.
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
14
Slow Burn
50
Psychological
29
Supernatural
20
Creature
0
Disturbing
67
Fun Factor
0
Cerebral
28
Survival
17
