The Worst Film Ever

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

I like the occasional weird, experimental, psychedelic movie. I like most of Luis Buñuel's movies, movies like "El topo", Jörg Buttgereit movies, I even liked a movie that had a camera going back and forth all of the time but man, I just did not liked "O Ritual dos Sádicos" very much at all.Thing with this movie is that I just can't even look at it as a movie. For more than halve of it, this movie consists out of loose never used film stock sequences being thrown together. All of these sequences are like '60's soft-core porn black & white ones, that are badly edited and shot. Most moments are just plain weird, it's not hard to see how they ended up on a big pile of never used film-stock. It's a real bad and extremely cheap way of film-making. The movie just never feels as a whole, not even when the movie starts to throw in some own shot material, featuring José Mojica Marins, who also 'directed' this movie. He's known as Zé do Caixão, or under the English name Coffin Joe and has appeared in a lot of Brazilian horror productions as that very same character.I like it when a movie goes all trippy and has some great visuals and dream look sequences but this just never made any sense. Apparently there is a story and point to all this, involving a drug experiment but no, the movie just never has any good moments or a good clear idea of its own what it is doing and trying to tell. The movie is not even that weird that it starts to became fascinating or interesting in any way. It's just plain weird, without any redeeming qualities to it.Just say no to this movie.2/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

José Mojica Marins a.k.a. Coffin Joe unsurprisingly has only a small following, and that's not surprising because his films are so weird and therefore difficult to get on with. I did actually like his first two efforts; the amusingly titled At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul and This Night I Will Possess Your Corpse, but was less than impressed with the third entry in his series and am not impressed with this one either. The first two films were actually quite similar and to his credit, the director decided to change things a bit for his third movie and made it an omnibus, and here again he's decided to do things differently as this time we focus on an experiment involving LSD and, of course, Coffin Joe. I have no idea what the experiment is supposed to be investigating; probably fear or something, and the film basically follows a load of test subjects who take the drug and begin hallucinating. Unsurprisingly, all the hallucinations involve sex and general sleaze and Coffin Joe turns up too.This film is a complete mess; after five minutes the plot gets completely lost and we end up with a hodgepodge of images with barely any connection to each other. The plot involves drugs and it would seem that the director wanted this idea to carry over into the film itself as I can't imagine that José Mojica Marins was not on drugs when he wrote and filmed this. The film is less focused around the character of Coffin Joe this time and the action (seems to!) focus more on the mythology surrounding it. Despite the fact that none of it makes any sense, there are some good images on display; but to be honest, I prefer my films (generally) to make sense and this one just doesn't do that, which made me rather bored by the time it finished. Like the second film directed by José Mojica Marins, this one features a section in full colour in the final third and it's definitely the best part of the film - it still makes no sense, but this bit is really nice to look at and we get to see the strange character using his powers to undress a woman, which is exactly what I would use powers like that for. Anyway, this film really is a mess and unless you really enjoyed the previous three films in the series; I would not recommend tracking it down.

I know that this film has a lot of "defenders" - I guess I just didn't get it. I really enjoyed AT MIDNIGHT I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL, and have yet to see THIS NIGHT I'LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE - but AWAKENING OF THE BEAST was just too strange and "psychedelic" for my taste.Two-thirds of the film is in black-and-white, and this part is semi-amusing. A psychiatrist relates tales of drug-users that show that all those that use drugs are delinquents and perverts. We have a woman who defecates in a pot for the enjoyment of a room full of men, A woman who peeks from her doorway and does bumps of coke and strokes her donkey (no, this isn't a word-play - I'm talking' an actual donkey...)while the butler bones her daughter, a shady filmmaker who whacks-off while an associate rapes a naive wannabe actress, and so forth. Though none of this is portrayed very graphically - it's still amusing. Then we get into a color portion that has this psychiatrist dosing up four volunteers with LSD, and they have strange visions including Coffin Joe and a series of strange delusions...That's pretty much it with this one, and although the beginning was kinda entertaining, it wasn't sleazy enough to really be any fun. The end "trip-out" segment is just weird and long, and didn't hold my attention. I guess I prefer the more "straight-narrative" Coffin Joe films, as I stated before that I quite liked I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL. The fans of this one can keep it. Mildly amusing, but dull overall...6/10

I have been along time fan of Coffin Joe. I kept hearing about this film and finally go to see it on Channel Four a few years ago. Many say it is the best Coffin Joe film but I think maybe they are wrong.Sure, it is great and different. Going down a different road than the first two. The idea is great and the short story's are funny and often disturbing. I love the soundtrack and the colour segment at the end in the LSD trip into the world of Coffin Joe.I can see why it was banned at the time and it is still shocking today.Not Coffin Joe's best but it is probably close...It may take some finding but you should definitely hunt it out.