Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

"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.

After seeing The Evil Dead Trap, I'm not surprised at all that it has a rather strong cult following; as despite the fact that the plot is rather ludicrous and the film isn't particularly well thought out, it makes up for these problems with a plethora of special effects and a bucket of gore; and the result is a brilliantly fun piece of Japanese horror. The influence for this film is clearly far reaching, but the most obvious is probably the Cronenberg masterpiece Videodrome, though the oeuvre of Lucio Fulci seems to be an influence and of course the English title is a clear rip-off of a very popular early eighties horror film. The plot focuses on a late night reality TV show hosted a young lady named Nami. The show receives a videotape that includes apparently real snuff tape footage. This leads the team to go and track down the origin of the tape, and they arrive at an old warehouse. After gaining access to the facility, it's not long before the group begin being picked off by an unseen assailant.The film could easily be seen as a slasher flick, but actually it's much more ambitious than that. The snuff footage at the beginning of the film sets the tone for the rest of it; the violence is extreme, but also rather realistic and that is carried on throughout. One of my favourite things about it was undoubtedly the atmosphere; director Toshiharu Ikeda makes best use of the location and the fact that the central characters are isolated from the outside world. The violence is often shown and extreme and this is what makes the film entertaining. It's also rather inventive and the film offers much more than merely another man with a knife. The problems regarding the plotting and character are somewhat condemning; I do feel that if a bit more time and attention were given to these areas then the film could easily have been a masterpiece. But even so, if you want a good gorefest then you really can't do better than this film! I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to all horror fans.

Toshiharu Ikeda's violent 1988 slasher is an amazing film for those looking for gore. From the graphic killing in the opening to the bloody climax, this film entertains to no end. The camera work is similar to such luminaries as Sam Raimi and Lucio Fulci (It's all about the eye-gouging). With usage of colors and music similar to that of Dario Argento, Synapse Films has released a great DVD transfer of this film. So go out and grab it. Funny thing is, how I mentioned that the camera-work is similar to Sam Raimi's, who directed the fun, gore-packed romp, 'The Evil Dead (1981)'. And that this film is titled, 'Evil Dead Trap', coincidence? Who knows.

First of all let me just say for all of the " Evil Dead " fans in the world that found this film a slap in the face. evil dead was what i like to say that" devilishly delirious " ,and i must say that it had just amount of gore into their film. even throughout 2 of the sequels.Now to the bad sickness of the filthy Japanese movie move known to the world called " Evil Dead Trap " or as i like to call it " DEADFULLY DISTURBING". If i've had to pay someone to delete every las sequel to this lack of acting but full on gore-than ....litterly. i will pay them mega buck.to beat the living daylights out of this director I'm going to impale that person to a chair just like in the film.now to the people who are thinking about seeing this film just because it cool looking, just say " NO" to this film.if i was you i would watch " Ich the killer" it's much better.