jadavix "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.

marymorrissey I guess it possible to do a 'spoiler' when it be like nothing makes much sense anyway... but that's what's good about it makes 0 sense starting off with these dippy TV people ... could hardly have a more emphatic warning how "it might be such a good idea" to go into the factory of like eybeall knife torture and knifeball eye torture and ... then they split up in to vulnerable little groups and then all these various kills are done basically in these rube goldberg ways that seem to all go wrong but then eventually each victim ends up somehow accidentally going the way of all evil flesh uh and the "showdown" is like back and forth like it's never gonna end it's like please one or both of you just stay down so the movie can finish! but I did like the "very" ending and... uh. well it would have been more fun to share it with someone or an audience, all the silliness... and the men could have been a lot more attractive I'll give it a 3 for ... for the scenes in which they lost the tripod an thus did omse weird kind of . . . stop action stuff .... it makes no sense but then that's why this is a good review. evidently um Oliver Stone says "a daring and grim thriller - reveals Japan's twisted sexual soul one terrifying scene after another." this has got to be an example of an American director doing like one of those Japanese commercials that the stars do on telly for soft drinks and the like?

ElijahCSkuggs Story revolves around this news anchor chick who goes all brave when she sees this whacky video tape of people dying, including herself. Instead of running for the hills, she runs to the scene where all this murderin' is going down. She brings along a ragtag group of co-workers with her, who of course will be loads of help.Well, the murderer is lurking there, and it now appears everyone is trapped, and yep, you guessed it, everybody starts dropping like flies. Why all the mystery? Who is this mysterious and bizarre man walking around with the gun? Who is the murderer? Why is it that cute Asian girls' nipples are so incredibly sensitive? You'll find out this and loads more in Evil Dead Trap, the deadliest trap of pure evil you'll ever witness.By now you've probably read a couple others comments on the flick and almost all have similar things to say. Especially on how it resembles an Argento flick. It really does! And surprisingly it does it just as well. The music, atmosphere and deaths are all great. But like many Italian horror/mystery flicks, the movie also gets tedious. There were plenty of scenes that seriously need to be trimmed down. Honestly, this film could have easily been 15-20 minutes shorter and still could have kept all the good stuff. And also, this movie, would NEVER end. I did however enjoy the bizarre antics that erupted into our laps in the finale, but holy hell, at least speed up the action or cut one of those endings outta there. Just f@ckin end already! Besides those issues, I found Evil Dead Trap to be a stylish, well-made horror flick that delivered some nice grue and some nice scenes of sexiness. It's just a damn shame the flick dragged so much. But whatever, if you have a love for Italian flicks like Suspiria and also have a yearning for Asian horror, this is a must see for your ass. 6.5 outta 10 rounded up!

EVOL666 EVIL DEAD TRAP is a pretty solid J-horror film with several cool elements. It starts to taper off and get kind of dull at the end, but overall a pretty strong film...EVIL DEAD TRAP starts off with Nami, a late-night TV show host, receiving a strange package in the mail. She opens it up, and it turns out to be a VCR tape. She pops it in and watches what appears to be a pretty rough snuff film of a chick getting cut up and poked in the eye with a knife (in true graphic "Fulci" fashion...). The "killer" filmed the drive to the location where the "snuff-film" was made, so Nami, smelling a hot story, packs up her film crew and heads out to check it out. Of course there are some strange goings-on at the abandoned facility where the snuff-film was shot, and the crew members start getting picked off one-by-one in pretty gruesome fashion. This leads up to the finale of Nami "unmasking" the killer and the completely off-the-wall ending...All-in-all, EVIL DEAD TRAP is a good film. The story is interesting, there are some novel gore scenes, and the photography, acting, and locations are all very good. The only real problem I had is with the pacing, which started off pretty hot and heavy, and slowed down noticeably in the second half. I actually fell asleep twice trying to watch this film - but that could have been the bourbon...The ending was also completely strange and unexpected - but anyone who watches a lot of this type of J-horror won't be too surprised by that fact. It seems that these films can never have a straight story-line, that they all have to feature some sort of super-natural or just super-strange element to make them work, and although the eyeball scene was rough and there were a few other notable kill scenes, I personally was hoping for a little more of the red-stuff...Definitely recommended for anyone who likes more underground J-horror. 8/10