"Awakening of the Beast suggests that Jose Mojica Marins was an extremely media-savvy operator. The show is distinctly post-modern in the way that it draws upon a number of filmic textual devices and styles, along with a variety of music and print-based texts, and jumbles them all into a sub-psychedelic and surreal but highly effective exercise in self-promotion... The lengthy and surreal hallucinogenic sequence... features a whole range of disorientating, freak out inducing camera angles and whacked out and trippy editing techniques. The soundtrack here features an avant-garde cacophony that is very unsettling and disturbing." - Glenn Erickson, DVD Savant