YMMV / At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Did Coffin Joe really consider Antônio a friend? Or did he just approach him because of his interest in Terezinha?
  • After visiting the fortuneteller and being told that Antônio's lie of life was ending and Terezinha was in danger, Coffin Joe murders Antônio so he can go after Terezinha. Did he randomly decided to commit it that night, or did he decide it as a way to mock her warning?

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: right after the scene where he receives the doctor after killing his wife with a spider, it cuts to a scene where he's walking on a street near and spots a man mistreating his sobbing son, and immediately jumps to call him out, warning him against mistreating his child, because he was the coninuity of his blood. It comes out of nowhere and barely affects the plot or the character, apart from showing that Coffin Joe has a soft spot for children.

• Ensemble Dark Horse: the fortuneteller who appears after the opening credits, warning the audience against watching the movie and Antônio and Terezinha of the danger surrouding them, a Creepy Good (apparent) witch with a cool design, and who also predicts Coffin Joe about his fate at midnight.

• Moral Event Horizon: While it's arguable that Coffin Joe crossed the line after mutilating a poor bar client's hand when he refuses to release the chunk of money he'd just lost on the poker, he unambiguosly crosses it when he kills his wife Lenita with a giant spider, and further when he kills Antônio so can have a free path on Terezinha, whom he brutally rapes when she refuses his advances.

• Signature Scene:
  • The scene where Coffin Joe eats his dinner during Good Friday and mocks a Christian procession from his window, laughing at them and even offering a piece of meat (which is forbidden during Good Friday) to a priest, who promptly crosses himself in shock. It's an Establishing Character Moment for the character, showing that not only does he hold contempt for religion and willingly breaks the rules of a Christian holiday, but is willing to mock others' faith right in their faces, and it happens before he even does anything villainous, setting up what kind of person our main character is.
  • Coffin Joe stepping on a graveyard and yelling at the dead, mockingly daring them to take his soul, holding a bottle of wine he stole from an offering (from a syncretic Brazilian religion) before throwing it against the gravestones.
  • The scene where after being chased by apparitions of ghosts, Coffin Joe winds up on a mausoleum, where two of his victims are buried, and desperate to see that they're still dead, he breaks the coffins open and faces their decaying corpses, with closes of their faces as if they're staring at him.
• Special Effects Failure: The owl that Coffin Joe sees in the woods and assumes it's part of the fortuneteller's prediction is clearly a doll being clumsilly shaken in front of the camera.