8. At Midnight Ill Take Your Soul (1964)
Theres nothing that can prepare you for the sheer craziness found in At Midnight Ill Take Your Soul. Written, directed, and starring Jose Mojica Marins, At Midnight Ill Take Your Soul holds the honor of being Brazils first horror film. And what a debut it was. This movie is a bad dream that gets better and better with each viewing. More importantly, it also introduced audiences to Brazils boogeyman, Ze do Caixao a.k.a. Coffin Joe. Coffin Joe is a bad dude around town. The kind that gets chased out by a mob of angry villagers. Problem is, everyone in Coffin Joes village is downright terrified of him so he basically gets to walk around town espousing his views against religion and the supernatural and everything else he thinks is weak about society. His only real goal is to find the perfect woman to bear his child and continue his bloodline. Seems like a reasonable request if it wasnt for the fact that no sane woman would be caught dead with a guy like Coffin Joe. It gets real ugly from here and the uglier it gets, the crazier it gets. Played by Marins himself, Coffin Joe would become a pop culture phenomenon in Brazil in a similar way that Freddy Krueger would in the United States decades later. This guy was everywhere from comics to television to film. However, unlike Freddy, Coffin Joe never lost his edge and At Midnight Ill Take Your Soul still packs a hell of a bite.