"Evil Dead Trap" is a notorious Japanese horror film known for its heavy violence. It's a uniquely grisly Eastern take on the slasher flick, with an ending that abandons that for Cronenberg-like body horror.
Nami is a struggling reporter who gets a supposed "snuff film" in the mail. It features perhaps the most horrific eye-gouge I have ever seen in a movie. Fulci's "Zombi" has nothing on it.
Nami, being perhaps not very bright, decides to gather her equally foolish team of helpers and check out the abandoned warehouse where the 'murder' was apparently filmed. There, in time-honored slasher film style, they decide to "split up and check it out", whereupon, yes, they begin getting picked off one by one, apparently by a masked assailant, though most of the deaths involve traps set beforehand.
There are then some tedious, lengthy dialogue scenes and I admit I stopped really paying attention. None of the violence in the movie tops or even equals that opening eye-pop scene, and the movie takes a truly bizarre detour into the realm of body horror which made no sense to me.
It left me wondering: is the bog standard slasher just too simplistic and dull for Japanese audiences? Is that why they felt they had to tack on the garbage at the end? What you end up with is a passable slasher which moves too late into weirdness and just loses the audience completely.
Nami is a struggling reporter who gets a supposed "snuff film" in the mail. It features perhaps the most horrific eye-gouge I have ever seen in a movie. Fulci's "Zombi" has nothing on it.
Nami, being perhaps not very bright, decides to gather her equally foolish team of helpers and check out the abandoned warehouse where the 'murder' was apparently filmed. There, in time-honored slasher film style, they decide to "split up and check it out", whereupon, yes, they begin getting picked off one by one, apparently by a masked assailant, though most of the deaths involve traps set beforehand.
There are then some tedious, lengthy dialogue scenes and I admit I stopped really paying attention. None of the violence in the movie tops or even equals that opening eye-pop scene, and the movie takes a truly bizarre detour into the realm of body horror which made no sense to me.
It left me wondering: is the bog standard slasher just too simplistic and dull for Japanese audiences? Is that why they felt they had to tack on the garbage at the end? What you end up with is a passable slasher which moves too late into weirdness and just loses the audience completely.