"I`ll charge double too bury anybody I kill..."

With At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, actor-director José Mojica Marins originates his character of "Coffin Joe" who would appear in seven more films between 1967 and 2008(!), initially a gleefully irreligious undertaker with a cruel violent streak and a bent for sexual predation who soon gives in to his murderous impulses. It's an interesting idea: A character whose lack of belief in the supernatural, up to including God, fears no retribution for his evil acts - the atheist as seen by Christian fundamentalists - and ironically, though he worships life above all else, he only means his own life and what depravity this lack of divine accountability allows him to take part in. Ridiculous anywhere but in a horror film. And he's wrong. The spirits of the dead do come for him. Or are they just manifestations of a guilty conscience? I think THAT's even less credible than ghosts and witches. Some fierce kills and tense, triggering moments put Brazilian horror on the map.

Cult horror movie