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just ok b movie fare but does feature the weird n wonderful coffin joe!
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/25/23
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IFC has aired a few of the "Coffin Joe" movies, and they are exercises in surrealist film. Jose Mojica Marins is likely comparable to Roger Corman -- the work is recognizable, but not necessarily because it's good. I'm sure something is lost in translation between Brazil and the US, but "Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind" is a visual trip through one man's nightmares. The scenes are odd, the plot paper thin, and the visuals bizarre -- more like Dante's "Inferno" than any Hollywood plot. Interesting, but only because it's different from American B-grade cinema.
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Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
02/17/23
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An all out assault on the senses. The film doesn't have much in terms of story, but makes up for that with overwhelmingly surreal, nightmarish images. The film does not depict drugs as such, it is a drug in itself, watching this is like having a really deranged, psychedelic experience yourself. And I had only smoked some hash, before watching it! And it really spaced the fuck out of me.
It was also quite interesting watching Jose Mojica Marins, play himself, and commenting on his own work, most notably on the character Coffin Joe (who of course has a prominent role in THIS film). It gave the film a kind of 8 1/2 feel to it; it became a film about itself, to some extent, a film about its own creation. However, Jose Marins, take the 8 1/2 concept a bit further than Fellini did, and discusses the psychological impact his films have or could potentially have on its viewers.
P.S. I do not agree with the other reviewers that this film is a mere compilation of earlier Coffin Joe footage, although it contains a little bit of that, the vast majority of the film is completely new.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/06/23
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Very weak entry to the Coffin Joe series is really just a compilation of footage from earlier movies, hashed together with an uninspired and hastily shot framing device. Really a waste of time, just watch the other movies instead - particularly the far superior 'At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul', 'This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse' and 'Awakening of the Beast'. A disappointment from the usually inventive Jose Mojica Marins.
Rated 2/5 Stars •
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/28/23
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My first exposure to cult film icon Coffin Joe, and...man, I don't even have an opinion. First of all, it's hard to judge anything based off of this film, which by all accounts is more of a compilation of scenes from the other films in the series, ranging from favorite scenes to ones cut or censored out. The end result is more than a little incoherent, but the plot is hardly the point here. Filled with nightmarish and horrible imagery, Hallucinations in some ways reminds me of Vampyr, which I watched recently, in that both films are far less concerned with anything about story, instead choosing to focus on mood and unsettling images. Hallucinations worked better for me, simply because the visuals were so much more surreal and disturbing - this is definitely not for the squeamish. I'm still curious to see a "true" Coffin Joe film, but knowing what I'm getting into, I'll be better prepared...
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
01/12/23
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