Delírios de um Anormal aka Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind( José Mojica Marins, 1978)

Seems like Mojica has got some money after all with Hellish Flesh because in this one he’s coming after us in all of his glorious craziness. With totally unique feeling and almost experimental/avant-garde filming this is quite similar to Awakening of the Beast but even better. It really seems that he had found his touch and felt comfortable in front of camera as well as behind it. His lines of text are even crazier and more dramatically delivered as usually (if that’s possible) and movie is uniquely shot using some weird angles and creepy sound effects.

And the story? Fuck story, it's not really essential for a Coffin Joe movie. Again, we are watching bizarre collage of his older movies incorporated into new developments. It starts with his old obsession about having a supreme child with supreme woman. He finds one but unfortunately this all happens in deranged mind of some poor bastard Dr. Hamilton who is convinced that Zé do Caixão is trying to get his wife Tania. Unfortunately for doctor and fortunately for the audience that is, because we can watch first of the nightmares. Then it gets from being just slightly strange to really cool.

Because now art starts to imitate the life as José Mojica Marins as a film-maker himself is called by doctor’s colleagues in order to explain the poor guy that Zé is just a fictional character. This explaining of course leads to yet another nightmare but he somehow succeeds convincing him because doctor now seems to be cured. He’s even confident enough to invite Mojica to his home later in the evening to a dinner with his wife. Big fucking mistake, right!?

It’s simply brilliant stuff. It just left me wanting to see more because I didn’t recognize lots of the images from his older movies. 

8/10