The Awakening of the Beast

In 1970, Brazilian horror director José Mojica Marins unleashed a cinematic behemoth that would become synonymous with depravity and madness. As "The Awakening of the Beast," this film masquerades as a pseudodocumentary exposé of the darkest corners of human psychology, but its true nature is far more sinister. With a series of surreal and hallucinatory sequences, Marins' masterpiece reveals the true extent of his own alter ego Coffin Joe's twisted influence - leaving audiences questioning what is real and what is merely the product of a mind pushed to the breaking point by the horrors he's unleashed upon his subjects.