I’m obsessed with Coffin Joe — check out the Letterboxd — and the Arrow Video box set is exactly what I wanted: the best quality copies of movies that were made for next to nothing but filled with an incredible level of inspiration.

Zé do Caixão or Coffin Joe is José Mojica Marins. The character is an undertaker who believes that he is an ubermench that must continue his blood by having a son with the perfect woman who he will only find by basically destroying everyone around him. Everyone around him is Catholic and has earned his absolute scorn and while they are superstitious, he hates the supernatural, even if he has already been to Hell and stood face to face with Death. According to Marins, Joe started to hate the human race when he fought with the Brazilian Expeditionary Force in World War II only to come home to find that the love of his life was with someone else.

The Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe set contains the following films:

At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul: The first Coffin Joe film finds him wandering Brazil seeking the perfect woman to bear his son, a destiny that will cause death and pain to everyone he meets.

This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse: Four years later, Coffin Joe has recovered from shock, blindness and being accused of a series of murders. Now it’s time to get back to finding his perfect woman and continue his blood.

The Strange World Of Coffin Joe: Three stories of strangeness all told by Coffin Joe, who somehow survived being dragged into a swamp.

The Awakening Of The Beast: A TV panel debates the idea that sexual perversion is caused by the use of illegal drugs, with more stories that illustrate this point. The TV show needs an expert on depravity, so they ask Marins to appear on the show.

The End of Man: Finnis Hommis is the good side of Marins, the light to the darkness that is Zé do Caixão.

When The Gods Fall Asleep: Finnis Hommis returns to teach humanity how to be better people while Satanists drink blood from live chickens.

The Strange Hostel Of Naked Pleasures:This film begins with dancing women, native Brazilian drummers and an old man who chants over a coffin which opens to reveal…begins chanting over a closed coffin. The coffin opens and a man rises. Zé do Caixão! Coffin Joe!

Hellish Flesh: This is a movie filled with screaming and while strange, it doesn’t enter into the world of the Coffin Joe films. He doesn’t descend a staircase of naked women or go to Hell and learn that he is Satan. But still, it’s a movie where an acid-deformed scientist works on his revenge and even when making a morality story, Marins still can’t make a normal movie.

Hallucinations Of A Deranged Mind: Dr. Hamílton (Jorge Peres) is a psychiatrist who is having nightmares in which Coffin Joe is taking his wife. He seeks help from filmmaker Jose Mojica Marins, who assures him that he created Coffin Joe, who doesn’t really exist.

Embodiment Of Evil: It took more than thirty years, but Coffin Joe was finally able to complete his story that began in At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul and This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse. Creator and star José Mojica Marins felt that since he compromised on the sending of the second film, he was cursed. Now, he could finally tell the story.

This limited edition set from Arrow Video comes with brand new 4K restorations of all the films, trailers, a collector’s book featuring new writing by Tim Lucas, Carlos Primati, Jerome Reuter, Amy Voorhees Searles, Kyle Anderson, and Paula Sacramento, reversible sleeves and a double-sided poster with new artwork by Butcher Billy, and 12 double-sided artcards. You can get this from MVD.