Fumi Katsuragi, Miyuki Ono

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 hos...( read more  read more... )tess, 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!

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Unrated, 102 min.

Directed by: Toshiharu Ikeda

Release Date: January 1, 1988

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DVD Release Date: November 7, 2000

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  • June 6, 2007
    Gory fun! It's anime done live.
  • September 11, 2008
    I've had quite the time with this one. When I first saw this I hated it ("This is nothing like Evil Dead!") but I keep returning to it like an abused spouse. Now, I quite like it. A lot actually. It's a bizarre film that rarely makes logical sense, but if you let yourself get...( read more) into it, it can be a hell of a lot of fun. Great visuals and gore make it easy to see why genre fans call this the "Japanese Argento film". Now if only I could get into Argento....
  • May 16, 2008
    Still holds shock value today.
  • November 27, 2009
    I've wanted to see this for a long time and I got what I wanted: A fucking fantastic Japanese horror flick that's different from other horror movies i've seen. It's pretty graphic, it's got a unique and cool style to it, and it just has a great set up in the story. It's really go...( read more)od and it probably is like they say: "The best Japanese Horror Flick of All Time!". I'd say the only one that rivals it so far for me is Takashi Miike's "Audition", but I still think it's fair to say that weither or not it ties with "Audition" or beats it, it's still my favorite Japanese horror flick to date and I watch a lot of Japanese flicks. SEE THIS!
  • August 26, 2009
    horror blood n sex everything a girl needs
  • December 1, 2008
    What J-horror should be... and Italian ripoff done right
  • May 22, 2008
    This movie is one that will make your head hurt after it's over. It is gory, it is creepy at points, and you just don't want to look away!
  • November 24, 2007
    dead trap gonna fall in it
  • November 15, 2007
    Might be interesting?
  • November 1, 2007
    Not interested. I generally avoid horror movies.

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