José Mojica Marins (March 13, 1936 - February 19, 2020) was a Brazilian filmmaker, actor, composer, screenwriter, television and media personality. 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 the theater. Marins is also known by his alter ego Coffin Joe (loosely translated from Zé do Caixão). Although Marins is known primarily as a horror film director, his earlier works were Westerns, dramas and adventure films.

Filmography

• 2024Fitas Proibidas - Antologia do Terror — In Memory Of
• 2022A Lasanha Assassina: A Revolta das Massas — In Memory Of
• 2021Texas Carlos Massacre — In Memory Of
• 2021The Curse — Coffin Joe, Director, Story
• 2018A Praga do Cinema Brasileiro
• 2017Coffin Joe's Heart of Darkness — Director
• 2016Horror no Cinema Nacional
• 2016SP Zero 15
• 2015Afonso é uma Brazza — Zé do Caixão
• 2015Carniçal — Pai
• 2015Coffin Joe Born Again — Director
• 2015Dark Fables — Director
• 2015Entrando Numa Roubada — Gerente do Banco
• 2015Memórias da Boca — Director
• 2015O Saci — Pastor, Director
• 2015Rua do Triumpho - O Filme
• 2013Extra Bloody
• 2013Liz Vamp — Selfie
• 2013Orgy of the Devil and Other Forbidden Tapes of Ivan Cardoso
• 2013Sangue Marginal
• 2012Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit
• 2012Mr. Sganzerla: Os Signos da Luz
• 2012O Beijo na Morte — Narrador Convidado
• 2011A espiritualidade e a sinuca — Deus
• 2011Ponto Org
• 2010A Descent Into Coffin Joe's Hell — Ele mesmo
• 2010Gurcius Gewdner Show — Master of the World
• 2009O Fim da Picada
• 2008Embodiment of Evil — Zé do Caixão, Director, Writer
• 2008FilmeFobia — Zé do Caixão
• 2008Minami em Close-up - A Boca em Revista
• 2008O Retorno do Dr. Bartolomeu e a Clínica do Sexo — Dr. Bartolomeu
• 2008Pousada da Paz — Script Supervisor
• 2008Rock Rocket: Doidão
• 2008The Capitol of the Dead
• 2008Undertaker — Coffin Joe (voice), Original Film Writer
• 2007A Hora do Terrir
• 2007Pináculo da Miséria — Director
• 20065 Mentiras — Zé do Caixão
• 2006Foi Bom pra Você, Benzinho?
• 2005Lâmia, Vampiro! — Apresentador
• 2004Necrophagia - Nightmare Scenarios — Coffin Joe, Director
• 2004Um Show de Verão — Dono da Funerária
• 2003Candeias: Da Boca pra Fora
• 2002A Lasanha Assassina — Narrator
• 2002The Devil Baby Was Born in São Paulo
• 2001Wild Torture - The Grid
• 2000Fantasporto – Carnaval no Porto
• As Aventuras de Tiazinha — Dr. Ziggy
• 1998O Auto de Leidiana
• 1997At Midnight with Glauber Rocha
• 1997Coffin Joe Tales — Padre / Cavaleiro do Medo
• 1997Ed Mort — Silva 3
• 1996Babu - Damned Revenge — (as Coffin Joe)
• 1996Homem sem terra - A volta de João Amorim — Zé do Caixão, Producer
• 1994Coffin Joe's Visions of Terror — Coffin Joe
• 1993Dark Galaxy — (archive footage)
• Eurotrash
• 1990Extraterrestrial Cat in Boots — Príncipe Renine
• 1990Júlio o Rei dos Vilões
• 1989Queen of Clubs
• Olho por Olho — Lúcio Fera
• 198748 Hours of Hallucinatory Sex — Director
• 1987Demons and Wonders — Self, Director, Writer, Producer
• 1987Fatal Hours — Dr. Honório
• 1987O Dr. Frank na Clínica das Taras — Director
• 1987The Beauties of Billings
• 1986Hour of Fear — Director
• 1986Mais Luz
• 198524 Hours of Explicit Sex — Director, Writer
• 1985O Filho do Sexo Explícito
• 1984Father Pedro and the Revolt of the Children — Rodrigo Napu
• 1984Fifth Dimension of Sex — Director
• 1982The Secret of the Mummy — Explorador
• A Show From Another World — Host, Director, Writer, Creator
• 1980Chapeuzinho Vermelho
• 1980Fogo-Fátuo
• 1979A Imigrante — Director, Screenplay, Music
• 1979Homem x Máquinas - A Luta do Século no Planeta dos Botões — Director, Screenplay
• 1979Perversion — Vitorio Palestrina, Director, Story, Screenplay
• 1979World Market of Sex — Mauro, Director, Writer
• 1978Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind — Himself / Zé do Caixão, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1978The Marble Goddess — Director
• 1978The Woman Who Makes Doves Fly — Director
• 1977Hellish Flesh — Dr. George Medeiros, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1977One Man's Failure on Two Wedding Nights
• 1977The Abyss — Professor Pierson
• 1976As Mulheres do Sexo Violento — Director
• 1976Consoling Widows — Director
• 1976The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures — Zé do Caixão, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1976The Vampire of the Cinematheque
• 1974The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe — José Mojica Marins / Zé do Caixão, Director, Writer, Story
• 1974The Virgin and the Tough Guy — Director
• 1972D'Gajão Kills for Revenge — Director, Screenplay
• 1972Sex and Blood on Treasure Trail — Ermitão, Director
• 1972When the Gods Fall Asleep — Finis Hominis, Director, Writer
• 1971The End of Man — Finis Hominis, Director, Screenplay
• 1970The Awakening of the Beast — Himself / Zé do Caixão, Director, Story, Producer
• 1970The Godless Bandit — Zé das Penitências
• 1970The Prophet of Hunger — Ali Khan
• 1968Por Exemplo Butantã
• Strange World of Coffin Joe: TV Serie — Host, Writer, Creator
• 1968The Strange World of Coffin Joe — Professor Oãxiac Odéz / Zé do Caixão, Director, Story, Producer
• 1968Trilogy of Terror — Director, Writer
• Beyond, Far Beyond the Beyond — Host, Director, Writer, Creator
• 1967This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse — Zé do Caixão, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• 1966The Devil in Old Town — Director, Story
• 1965Nightmare — Director
• 1964At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul — Zé do Caixão, Director, Screenplay, Story
• 1963My Destiny is in Your Hands — Father, Director, Writer
• 1958Adventurer's Fate — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1948Bloody Kingdom — Sultão, Director, Writer, Producer

Appearances as themselves (22)

• 2021A Última Praga de Mojica — Self
• 2021The Good Cinema — Self
• 2020Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Ivan, the TerrirBle — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century — Self
• 2017Cult of Terror — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• 2013Let Your Fans Be Your Distributor! — Self
• 2013The First Time of Brazilian Cinema — Himself
• 2012Nas Asas do Caixão — Self
• 2007Giant Nails' Kidnapping — Himself
• 2007Person — Self
• 2005A Marca do Terrir — Self
• 2005Soberano — Self
• 2002Samba Chanson — Self
• 2001Coffin Joe: The Strange World of José Mojica Marins — Himself
• 2001Mojica In The Snow: Tonight I Incarnate At Sundance! — Himself
• 1997Canibais na HorrorCon — Self
• 1997Celebração - 100 Anos do Cinema Nacional — Self
• 1978Horror Palace Hotel — Himself
• 1978The Universe of Mojica Marins — Self
• 1970Audácia! — Self
• Minha Religião é o Cinema — Self (archive footage)