Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind (1978)

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The psychologist Dr. Hamilton is fascinated by the supernatural and adores his wife Tânia. Out of the blue, Dr. Hamilton has daydreams and nightmares with Zé do Caixão that wants to take Tânia to deliver his perfect offspring. His colleagues at the Psychiatric Clinic Dr. Adolfo Hansen invite José Mojica Marins, who is the creator of Zé do Caixão, to convince Dr. Hamilton that the character is not real but fruit of his imagination.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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For advanced students of psychedelic sleaze only.

According to the box (and as an aside – God bless Something Weird Video!), this feature is cobbled together from material censored out of Marins’ earlier “Coffin Joe” films. Though there are plenty of topless girls, and a good bit of torture and mayhem as well, the content of this movie seems to indicate that the censors in question (Brazilian?) had more serious issues with intense hallucination sequences. The handful of scenes which comprise the framing device, some mumbling business about a psychotic guy and the people trying to cure him, are certainly inept and boring enough, but this is actually a relief, because the hallucinations are pretty overwhelming, and you’ll be happy for opportunities to catch your breath. An endless barrage of utterly grotesque and disjointed imagery, much of which seems to be intended as literal hellscapes, is liberally flavored with nude women, partially obscured by psychedelic lighting and editing effects, and staged on sets which must be seen to be believed (parts of actors’ bodies are often built into the backdrop). It’s easier to compare this to other movies than it is to describe it; if you can imagine Kenneth Anger’s Satan movies, interspersed with gore scenes from H.G. Lewis, and rationalized by the further insertion of pieces of a fifties health class film on mental hygiene, you’re on the right track; and, not to be snotty, but if you can’t imagine that, you might not be ready to watch this one. If one can judge by this film alone (as, unfortunately, I must, though that won’t be the case for long), Marins’ big influences are Jung, Bosch, and E.C. Comics, which places this picture in heavy company by virtue of its aspirations alone, despite its technical shortcomings. (Not to mention that its very incoherency makes this movie a more accurate picture of some forms of schizophrenia than many more “serious” films which address the same subject.)

Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind

Psychiatrist Dr. Hamilton(Jorge Peres)is tormented by director José Mojica Marins’ fictional creation Zé do Caixão who is running rampant in the poor doctor’s mind, threatening to attain his wife, Tânia(Magna Miller), who he considers the perfect, superior woman to bear him a son. Merely an excuse to use footage from other movies, José Mojica Marins crafts a bizarre tale of mindwarp proposing the possibility that creation can manifest itself in a form outside the cinematic sphere. His colleagues hope to lure Hamilton out of his nightmares, so he can function once again in society, and be absent of the trauma which currently haunts him. José Mojica Marins even incorporates himself into the story, the creator called upon to assist the doctors/associates of Hamilton’s in helping the psychiatrist secure a cure for what ails him. HALLUCINATIONS OF A DERANGED MIND is chock full with freakish imagery such as reptiles, tarantulas crawling over the chests of sleeping women, acid thrown in a female victim’s face, demons poking the heads of the damned with pitchforks before whipping them with leather straps, a man being devoured alive by fiends at Caixão’s command, victims trapped in walls as they are beaten and pummeled, etc. Essentially, in the hellish plane where Caixão exists in Hamilton’s troubled psyche, human suffering and anguish are a constant. Lots of sadism and nudity, we see a collection of odd images shaped and fashioned from Marins’ crazed imagination. To be honest, a lot of the scenes in this movie are repetitive which made it a trial for me to sit through. And, to reiterate, a lot of past footage from other Zé do Caixão movies find their way into HALLUCINATIONS OF A DERANGED MIND, so you’ve seen this all before. Still Marins allows his alter ego a chance once again to be set free from his fictional confines to wreak havoc and cause mayhem.

Many Points in Common with Freddy Krueger

The psychologist Dr. Hamilton (Jorge Peres) is fascinated by the supernatural and adores his wife Tânia (Magna Miller). Out of the blue, Dr. Hamilton has daydreams and nightmares with Zé do Caixão that wants to take Tânia to deliver his perfect offspring. His colleagues at the Psychiatric Clinic Dr. Adolfo Hansen invite José Mojica Marins, who is the creator of Zé do Caixão, to convince Dr. Hamilton that the character is not real but fruit of his imagination.

“Delírios de um Anormal” is a boring collection of footages from other movies from Zé do Caixão a.k.a. Coffin Joe. However, it is interesting to see that this 1978 film has many points in common with Wes Craven’s “Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984) and the idea of an evil supernatural being that attacks in nightmares might have been the source of inspiration for the creation of Freddie Kruger. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): “Delírios de um Anormal” (“Delirium of an Abnormal”)

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