This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse

• The infamous spider ordeal used real, live tarantulas crawling directly on the actresses' skin — no props, no stop-motion — as part of José Mojica Marins' reputation for pushing cast members through genuinely dangerous stunts.
• Marins plays a dual role in the film: not just Zé do Caixão (Coffin Joe), but also the Devil himself, presiding over the hallucinatory hell sequence.
• The film is shot in black and white throughout except for Zé's descent-into-hell sequence, which explodes into color for stark visual contrast — Marins said of the choice, 'I saw a colorful one, and it worked better than in black and white.'
• This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse is the second film in Marins' Coffin Joe trilogy, a direct sequel to 1964's At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul.
• Brazil's military-era censors forced Marins to recut the film's ending so that Coffin Joe comes to believe in God and repents — a change Marins fought and resented for years afterward.

The entire second half of the film is not a supernatural event but a prolonged psychotic break induced by guilt and isolation, where the monsters represent Zé's repressed fear of his own mortality and failure.

Zé do Caixão functions as an anti-Christ figure whose attempt to create a biological god fails because humanity's inherent flaw is not physical weakness but moral corruption, rendering his eugenics project doomed from the start.

The recurring motif of eyes and watching suggests the film is a meta-commentary on the audience's complicity, positioning the viewer as the final judge who derives pleasure from Zé's suffering just as he derived it from his victims.

Coffin Maker Zé do Caixão returns from his jungle expedition, drunk on power and hellbent on inseminating the perfect woman to birth his superman lineage. When the town's modest population rejects his twisted eugenics program, the black-clad sadist unleashes a nightmare of rats, spiders, and psychological torture upon a group of kidnapped women, subjecting them to a "trial by spider" to find one worthy of bearing his child. As reality fractures under the weight of his hallucinations, Zé descends into a fever dream where the dead rise and the living scream, proving that his true monster isn't supernatural, but the unchecked ego of a man who believes he is God.