First one is most comprehensible and easy to follow. It's about this old doll manufacturer master with four beautiful daughters who help him with his craft. Their recent order of four new dolls is almost completed when their house gets home invaded by four toughs. They beat the old guy and start raping the daughters. But don't worry, things work out themselves because master just needs eyes for his uncompleted dolls and daughters are not as innocent as they seem.
It's told in nice, old fashioned way and reminded me a bit of Corman's Edgar Alan Poe's movies except at the end we get Mojica's bloody and gory signature.
Second one is the least impressive one. It's about some tramp balloon seller who has a crush on some nice looking chick. He follows her around and when she gets killed, he sneaks into funeral home in order to have "his ways with her". It has funny twist because we learn that he has rather foot fetish desires and not really necrophiliac ones.
Silent and told in very expressionist style underlined with great hypnotic music, kind of experimental type. But after few minutes it just gets boring, at least to me.
Third one is (finally!) related directly to Coffin Joe. He plays himself and is challenged on a TV show by some doctor who defends some thesis about love or whatever. Joe returns compliment by inviting this asshole and his wife to his house for a dinner. And then he proves his thesis in his way..
It's pretty depraved but what saves it (once again!) are his hilarious "philosophical" rhetorical nonsenses delivered in highly dramatic voice in usual surreal settings. It's not frightening by any means but it surely is quite unsettling. And we all of course like Strange World of Coffin Joe just like that, right!?
7/10
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