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Get this video and more at MySpace.com.. width="425" height="350" .... width="425" height="350" .... width="425" height="350" ..*********** Coffin Joe With his curling, claw-like fingernails, his habit of leaving corpses in his wake, and predilection for morbidity both on and off the screen, Jose Mojica Marins seems more a creation of one of his own films than the person who might make them.Yet during the 1960s, he (along with his alter ego, "Coffin Joe") was one of Brazil's best-known popular figures, a prolific director and star of macabre horror films, whose career and reputation are only now spreading outside of his homeland.In the 1960s he had a handful of massive hits, one of which remains in Brazil's box-office top 10. He had a television show and lent his celebrity to a comic strip and a range of consumer goodsBut after a military crackdown and political censorship that sent many of his filmmaking colleagues to Europe, he was forced into bankruptcy."His career kind of disappeared," says Andre Barcinski, a Brazilian music and film journalist who, with his partner Ivan Finotti, has documented Mojica's career in the Sundance prize-winning documentary Coffin Joe: The Strange World of Jose Mojica Marins. "He did not bring back the character of Coffin Joe. He became a gun for hire, did westerns and erotic films in the 1970s and 1980s. Today we have this weird situation because he is very well known, he has become like a national icon, if he walks down the street people recognise him, but the majority of people today haven't seen his films."
