Evil Dead Trap
by Toshiharu Ikeda
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Actor: Aya Katsuragi, Eriko Nakagawa, Hitomi Kobayashi, Masahiko Abe, Miyuki OnoDirector: Toshiharu Ikeda
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Image
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Movie Review: Silly fun.
Summary: 3 Stars
Evil Dead Trap (Toshiharu Ikeda, 1988)
Man, this movie wears its Argento influence on its sleeve in a huge way. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing; a handful of directors have been able to take the Argento influence and really run with it (the most notable being Michele Soavi). Evil Dead Trap, however, uses the visual brilliance he's inherited from Argento to mask a shallow script with a predictable plot.
Nami (Miyuki Ono, who would show up the year after in Ridley Scott's Black Rain) is the hostess of a late-night TV show with an all-female production team. One day, she comes in to find a package on her desk. When she views the videotape inside, she finds what looks like a snuff movie, and in the spirit of investigative journalism, she and a camera crew head out to the abandoned military base where the movie was filmed to see if she kind find the body, or perhaps the killer. When the crew get there, they find a mysterious man who warns them away. Soon after, as you would expect, the crew begin dying.
Predictable, right? Like you wouldn't believe. Every plot twist you expect is coming, and if you haven't figured out the Big Reveal halfway through the movie, you haven't seen enough slasher films. I grant you, there's a pretty bizarre twist to this particular Big Reveal, but it's still a variation on a theme. You've seen this before many, many times. Still, it's all quite pretty, and if you're a gorehound there's more than enough here to keep you satisfied. Just don't expect a great script. ** ?
Summary of Evil Dead Trap
Arguably the most controversial and popular Japanese horror film ever made, Evil Dead Trap (aka Shiryo no Wana) is finally on DVD in the United States from Synapse Films! Nami, a talk show hostess, tells her audience to send in home videos to profile on her late night program. Soon, she receives anonymous videotape in the mail^Ea tape containing terrifying imagery. She watches in horror as an unseen filmmaker follows a route to an abandoned factory^Eand brutally tortures and kills a woman on camera. A camera crew is assembled and they set off to follow the videotape^R s trail to the foreboding location. What they find there is a horror beyond imagination! There is someone^Eor something^Ein the mysterious building. Something waiting in the shadows to torture and murder them one by one^E This film has a huge cult following and is sure to please any serious horror film fan!Art House & International DVD Video
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