NEWSLETTER

COFFIN JOE’S
SUBTERRANEAN
SECRETS

Legendary Director José Mojica
Marins Won’t Really Kill You

INTERVIEW BY CHRISTIANO ABRAHAO
PHOTOS AND STILLS COURTESY
OF JOSÉ MOJICA MARINS
PORTRAIT BY SANTIAGO FERNANDEZ-STELLEY
TRANSLATED BY PETER AZEN, DANIELLA DINIZ, AND GISELA GUEIROS

José Mojica Marins began making movies at the age of ten and he hasn’t let up for 70 years. Though he’s responsible for gems like 24 Hours of Explicit Sex and its sequel, 48 Hours of Hallucinatory Sex, the true lunacy started with a nightmare featuring a faceless undertaker that he transformed into his alter ego, Coffin Joe. Possessed by the concept, Marins sold everything he owned to make the first movie of the Joe series, À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma [At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul], which is considered to be Brazil’s first horror film. When he couldn’t find anyone willing to play the depraved role, he dug around the studio for a cape and top hat, went to the best place in town for fake nails, and got to undertakering.

Since then Marins has been on a quest to find beautiful women who have no problem being in close quarters with rats, snakes, and other repulsive creatures—and perhaps in the process to nab a gal worthy of carrying his peculiar seed. Marins often appears in public as Coffin Joe, but we were able to persuade him to shed his usual garb and discuss his work over a few drinks at his local bar.

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Anonymous, on Jun 1, 2009 wrote: wow coffin joe actually had a bit of sean connery circa 30 years ago thing going on in his younger days. can’t say much about him now. fuck i don’t wanna grow old.
Anonymous, on May 29, 2009 wrote: @anon sorry man. spiders are smart as hell. crickets are nice and dumb and predictable. they are the dogs of the insect world. spiders are your moms cat.
Anonymous, on May 29, 2009 wrote: It sort of pisses me off that today directors automatically presume that the spiders were CGI. Before we know it, actors will sell their likeness to a studio and never have to show up on set. Everything will be done on a computer.
Anonymous, on May 29, 2009 wrote: when is someone going to use crickets instead of spiders? if you have ever been to a country bait and tackle store and you aren’t a fisherman you know how nasty and stinky they are. spiders have hair on their legs but crickets have instruments on theirs. think about it and tell me which is more scary.
Anonymous, on May 29, 2009 wrote: I once took a long and stringy shit that looked just like the green stuff the lady is in on page four. It was one of those that wraps all around the bowl but never breaks. One that you want to congratulate your asshole on.
Anonymous, on May 28, 2009 wrote: Bingo! Plus he gets to do all the test shots and auditions. That is a lot of boob grabbing.
	sam i am, on May 28, 2009 wrote: i like his style. can’t find anyone to play your star role? fuck it. do it yourself. you always get more love in front of the camera than behind it. now you get both and get to feel up your leading ladies.
Anonymous, on May 27, 2009 wrote: that director guy should sue The Horrors drummer for nicking his nickname.
Anonymous, on May 27, 2009 wrote: that green lady with the spiders and gore. rank rank rank rank. put me off my cup of tea.
Anonymous, on May 27, 2009 wrote: I love how he drinks bloody marys. How perfect.
Anonymous, on May 27, 2009 wrote: Whats with the wide array of geezers with unbelievable talent in Brazil? They all live to be a million years its wonderful.
Anonymous, on May 27, 2009 wrote: Zippers dont matter to him. But they matter to me.
Anonymous, on May 27, 2009 wrote: "If the woman couldn’t laugh, I used to tickle her" I bet you did, pirvy joe
Anonymous, on May 27, 2009 wrote: Robbing someone with an unloaded gun is still considered armed robbery. Is there a law in Brazil against armed forced calmness?
Anonymous, on May 27, 2009 wrote: you KNOW youve made it in the horror film industry if you have critics claiming that people actually died in your movies. be proud
	rusty, on May 27, 2009 wrote: his bravery tests are genius. it’s like a casting couch for pain instead of sex. not to say he won’t be trying to bag them later on.
Anonymous, on May 27, 2009 wrote: urgh. I dont think I could be an actress. I couldnt make out with that guy, I just couldnt physically bring myself to do it.
Anonymous, on May 27, 2009 wrote: oh man. check out the FUPA on that guy (front, upper, pussy, area. common to moms and fat girls)
Anonymous, on May 27, 2009 wrote: @hi fructose Some of his nails are still long. You can see his left thumb nail in the first photograph - gross.
Anonymous, on May 27, 2009 wrote: god could you have picked a less flattering photo of the man? it looks like he hasn’t seen his dick since the nixon administration.
	hi fructose, on May 27, 2009 wrote: gotta give it up to him for dealing with the long nails for so long. i don’t see how you could get anything done. the lady that was in the guiness book of world records forever with the longest fingernails couldn’t use that hand at all. what’s the point? she wasn’t even scaring anyone other than her loved ones.
Anonymous, on May 27, 2009 wrote: get this dude and ray kurzweil together and they could make a great trilogy finale titled "72 hours of virtual sex with spine-tingling fake female voices and fat naked men"
Anonymous, on May 27, 2009 wrote: The stills, especially the green girl with black eyes, remind me of Dario Argento. I’m definitely going to check out this man’s films. Thanks.
Anonymous, on May 26, 2009 wrote: hot girls and slasher films go hand in hand
Anonymous, on May 26, 2009 wrote: looks like coffin joe forgot to zip up his fly all the way
	bird is the word, on May 26, 2009 wrote: the blacked out contact lenses are something i’ve always wanted and still do.
Anonymous, on May 26, 2009 wrote: haha look at the picture on page 3 on him grabbing that girls tits. classic
Anonymous, on May 26, 2009 wrote: this guy knows whatsup. everyone loves some horror flicks with hot girls.
Anonymous, on May 26, 2009 wrote: So he pretty much casts hot girls and gets with them on film? Vincent Gallo, anyone?
	aahhhhB, on May 26, 2009 wrote: after "48 Hours of Hallucinatory Sex" came out I bet no one bothered with "24 Hours of Explicit Sex"
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