Episode 823: The End of Man (1971)

A naked man walks out of the sea and into São Paulo, and nobody can agree whether he's the Messiah or a naughty boy with a beard. José Mojica Marins, best known as Coffin Joe, kicks off Shocktober 2026 with The End of Man (1971), a strange, scrappy sermon.

Mike White, Rob St. Mary and Ben Buckingham dig into Finis Hominis: the head-in, tail-away walks that carry Mojica from scene to scene, an ending that jabs Catholic society in the eye, echoes of Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor, and the follow-up, When the Gods Fall Asleep (1972). They also talk about Mojica's death in 2020.

Then Mike talks with André Barcinski, co-director of Coffin Joe: The Strange World of Jose Mojica Marins (2001), about visiting Mojica in São Paulo, the dictatorship years, Cinema Novo, and a man who was never allowed to stop being his character.

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