Brazil gave us the great Coffin Joe back in the 60s and then like 20 years later they crapped out this slasher flick concerning a Satanic cult. The movie itself doesn't make a bunch of sense. A radio DJ(Gabriela Toscano) tells spooky stories about a serial killer and then a real-life serial killer acts out the murders in real-time. They do give us some HG Lewis-levels of gore to make up for the deficit of logic. There's one especially over-the-top sequence where a lady on a hammock is gutted by an over-sized Ali-Bab type sword and a bucket full of intestines falls out of her. I guess practical special FX were not quite as advanced in South America as they were in the U.S. by 1989.
I may have enjoyed this movie a bit more if it looked better. The version I viewed last night was a blurry VHS version blown-up and projected on a wall which made it even blurrier. As far as I know there is no DVD release of this so I guess this may be as good as this thing is going to look for now. Luckily it's a pretty simple film that's not hard to follow. The director, Fauzi Mansur, made a ton of pornos starting way back in the 60s and then finished his career with this and some other horror flick titled RITUAL OF DEATH a year later. I doubt that it reaches the subversive grandeur of any of the Coffin Joe epics.
The Motley Crue-looking VHS cover!:
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