My Last Interview With José Mojica Marins (Part 3 of 3)

The creator of Coffin Joe talks about porn, pride, and regrets

In 2012, I was invited to take part in an incredible project called Memória do Cinema (Memory of Cinema), created by Heco Produções and carried out in partnership with the Museum of Image of Sound (MIS) and the Government of the State of São Paulo. This project allowed me to interview Brazilian filmmaker José Mojica Marins, a cult artist and a true icon of horror cinema (because of Coffin Joe, the character he created and lived for decades).

Mojica was 76 years old at the time and our conversation lasted for almost three hours. Shortly thereafter, he would suffer a heart attack that left him very weak and reclusive, until his death on February 19, 2020, at the age of 82. This must be, therefore, one of his last longer interviews.

There are few interviews with Mojica translated into English, and I thought it was worth translating this one because he talks about aspects that are generally ignored. I divided our conversation into three large chronological blocks. The original video can be found at the end.

In this third and last part, the filmmaker talks about his experiences in the Brazilian X-Rated cinema of the 1980s, about his return to horror only in 2008 (in his last…