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1 Ano sem José Mojica Marins

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José Mojica Marins (13 March 1936 – 19 February 2020) was a
Brazilian filmmaker, actor, composer, screenwriter, and television
horror host. Marins is also known for creating and playing the
character Coffin Joe (loosely translated from Zé do Caixão) in a
series of horror films; the character has since gone on to become his
alter ego as well as a pop culture icon, a horror icon, and a cult figure.
The popularity of Coffin Joe in Brazil has led to the character being
referred to as "Brazil's National Boogeyman" and "Brazil's Freddy
Krueger".
Born in São Paulo, Marins made his feature film directorial debut the
1950s with the film Adventurer's Fate. He went on to direct the 1964
film At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, which is considered Brazil's first
horror film. At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul marks the first
appearance of the Coffin Joe character, a role that Marins would
reprise in This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967) and
Embodiment of Evil (2008), along with a number of other films and
television series. He is considered to have been a pioneer of Brazilian
horror cinema and of graphically violent horror films in general.

Marins was born on Friday, 13 March 1936 in São Paulo, Brazil at a farm in the Vila Mariana, to Antonio
André Marins and Carmen Mogica Imperial, both descended from Spanish immigrants. His interest in filmmaking began at an early age. When Marins was three, his father ran a local cinema, and the family lived in a flat above it. During his childhood, Marins made short films with a camera that his parents had givento him as a present. These shorts starred himself and his neighbours, and were exhibited at churches and amusement parks.

In 1953, at the age of 18, Marins founded Cia. Cinematográfica Atlas (the Atlas Film Company). He acquired an abandoned synagogue which he transformed into a film studio and academy, where he gave acting
lessons and trained technicians in order to finance his films.

Although most known for films in the horror genre, Marins also
created exploitation, drugsploitation, sexploitation (often in the form
of pseudo-documentaries), and Westerns. Marins is noted for his lowbudget
film style, often using friends and amateur actors as cast and
crew.
His films are usually set in São Paulo, Brazil.

Marins became interested in cinema at a young age. He recounted that
he made his first film, O Juízo Final (Judgement Day), shot in 8 mm,
in 1948 at the age of 12. He followed with Encruzilhada da Perdição
(Crossroads to Perdition, 1952)

Mojica was one of several directors of the 2013 anthology horror film The Profane Exhibit, directing the segment "Viral". In 2014 he again collaborated with
other directors on the anthology film The Black Fables.

Marins hosted a monthly interview program The Strange World of Coffin Joe on the Brazilian television
station Canal Brasil, in which he discussed Brazilian media and culture with other contemporary figures, such as actors and musicians.

From 1967 to 1988, Marins hosted the program Além, Muito Além do Além (Beyond, Far Beyond the Beyond) on TV Bandeirantes, in character as Coffin Joe, presenting short horror tales written by author and
screenwriter Rubens Luchetti. Some scripts were later adapted as Coffin Joe comic books. The show's tapes
were reused and currently there are no known intact recordings of this program.

Marins directed and hosted The Show from the Other World (Um Show do Outro Mundo) on Rede Record de Televisão, again appearing as Coffin Joe. The half-hour program featured short horror films, with many of the
stories sent in by the viewers themselves and adapted by members of Marins' production team. As with his
earlier show, the original tapes were reused and there is no known record of this material.

In 1996 Marins hosted the daily television program Cine Trash on TV Bandeirantes, which featured fulllength horror films.

Marins appears in The Universe of Mojica Marins (O Universo de Jose Mojica Marins, 1978), a 26-minute documentary film directed by Ivan Cardoso. Marins portrays himself in the film, which also features interviews
with Marins' mother Carmem Marins, film editor Nilcemar Leyart, and Satã (Marins' assistant and
bodyguard).

In 1987 Marins released the semi-autobiographical documentary film Demons and Wonders (Demônios e Maravilhas), in which he appears as himself re-enacting moments from his life, with his family and associates playing themselves as well.

A 2001 documentary film, Damned – The Strange World of José Mojica Marins (Maldito - O Estranho Mundo de José Mojica Marins), directed by biographers André Barcinski and Ivan Finotti, examines Marins's
life and works. It won the Special Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.

Marins died of complications caused by bronchopneumonia on 19 February 2020, aged 83, in São
Paulo. Prior to his death, Marins had been hospitalized for about 20 days.

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