Long thought dead, mass murderer Ze De Caixao (Coffin Joe to English audiences) aka Josefel Zanatas (writer/director/star Jose Mojica Marins) is released from prison after a 40 year prison term (during which he killed 30 fellow prisoners). He returns to the slums of Sao Paolo where his faithful servant Bruno (Rui Resende) has not only maintained a lair for him but has also recruited a quartet of liberated souls to assist him as he resumes his grisly quest to continue his bloodline with the perfect woman (and gruesomely destroy any woman who fails and any man who tries to stop him). Hindering his quest are survivors and family of the victims of his previous exploits (including a cop blinded in one eye by Coffin Joe's talons and an extremely penitent monk) who may be even more corrupt and repellent than Ze as well as terrifying visions of his dead wife and other past victims (whose appearances usually prompt clips from the previous films). Late in the film in a carnival's house of horrors, Ze tells one of his disoriented persecutors surrounded by mannequins of Dracula and Frankenstein that "Images don't die" and the popularity of Ze de Caixao in Brazil and his growing popularity to English-speaking audiences as Coffin Joe suggest that Marins has indeed achieved immortality with his alter ego even though other characters and even he himself on film have repeatedly vanquished the character or dispelled his evil influence. Not only does the film look and sound slicker than earlier Coffin Joe entries, the story also flows more smoothly and Marins direction seems as assured as his onscreen performance. The gore is also more accomplished but somehow never as unpleasant as most torture porn flicks (probably because of the fantastical elements) and as with an earlier Coffin Joe entry, there is another tour through purgatory (although since the film is color, there isn't the striking transition from monochrome to color that there was in the prior film).