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Evil Dead Trap
enlarge	Director: Toshiharu Ikeda Actors: Miyuki Ono, Aya Katsuragi, Hitomi Kobayashi, Eriko Nakagawa, Masahiko Abe Studio: Image Category: DVD List Price: ~~$24.95~~ Buy New: $13.91 You Save: $11.04 (44%) New (27) Used (14) Collectible (1) from $10.93 Avg. Customer Rating: 26 reviews Sales Rank: 58376 Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Ntsc, Special Edition, Widescreen Languages: Japanese (Original Language), English (Subtitled) Rating: Unrated Number Of Items: 1 Running Time: 102 Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 DVD Layers: 1 DVD Sides: 1 Picture Format: Letterbox Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5 x 0.6 MPN: 9 ISBN: 6305789649 UPC: 654930300992 EAN: 9786305789642 ASIN: 6305789649 Theatrical Release Date: 1988 Release Date: November 7, 2000 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!

Editorial Reviews: Description 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!

Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews... One of the best Japanese horror flick's ever made. December 19, 2007 Evil Dead Trap is a Japanese horror film from the 80's that drew a lot of inspiration from Italian and American horror film's from that era, particularly Argento, Cronenburg and Fulci movie's. It's got all the color's, technique's, and beautifully staged murder sequences of Argento's best work, with the supernatural and bizarre element's of a Cronenburg movie, and the gore of a Fulci movie all blended into a strange, yet incredible horror film (even has a soundtrack that could be mistaken as lost Goblin music). A newswoman get's a strange videotape of a girl being sliced up in an abandoned factory (including an eyeball slicing scene reminiscent of Fulci's New York Ripper) and she and her collegues decide to investigate the murder. It then turn's into a enjoyably confusing nightmare of gore and the supernatural. One after another they get murdered in very brutal and creative way's, and then top's it all off with a Cronenburg-like, sci-fi ending. This is one of the best Japanese (or anywhere for that matter) horror flick's ever to have been made, and I can't recommend this one enough. Get this...you will not be disappointed. October 10, 2006 2 out of 2 found this review helpful Before Ringu made Japanese horror films mainstream in the west, there was Evil Dead Trap...probably the most well known Asian horror film of its time. A late night news program recieves an apparent snuff film from an obsessed viewer. Hoping this will be the big story she has been looking for, anchorette Nami and her crew decice to investigate. Once the bodies start to drop though, it becomes clear to Nami that there may be more to this story than meets the eye. This is a great Japanese horror film from the 80's with an ending reminescent of early Cronenberg. Any fan of the genre should be more than pleased. Argento influenced Japanese horror. July 4, 2006 1 out of 2 found this review helpful A reporter looking for her big break finds it when a maniac mails her a snuff film and directions to an abandoned factory. Without telling anybody she and four co-workers go to investigate (great idea!) and are shocked to find out there really is a killer on the loose and he's after them (imagine that!). One by one the killer knocks off the victims in violent ways (cleaver to the head, decapitation, massive spearing) all leading up to his main prize: the girl he mailed the tape to. With such an exciting start you'd think that this film would just get creepier and creepier, but instead when it gets down to the Final Girl it actually slows way down then drags on to some confusing nightmarish ending that caused me to make a face like I was eating a lemon while reading an advanced physics math book. JAPANESE ITALIAN-LIKE HORROR FLICK November 12, 2005 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This is a very bizzare and I won't hesitate to say - one of the best Japanise horror flicks I've seen. First if your opinion on Japanise horror tradition is based on such titles as "The Ring", "Grudge" and "Dark Water", you may forget about them - that is to say the latest Japanise wave. In 1980-s it was by far different. "Evil Dead Trap" has some supernatural elements as well, but it's made in a totally different style. I'd call it Japanise-Italian style no mater how funny that may sound. This movie reminds of giallo films in general and of some particular works by Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci. Everything is done here in Italian manner - cinematography, music, camera angles, ghastly murder scenes. I'm far from thinking it was the director's intention but sometimes I got the feeling I was watching some tribute to Italian masters of horror. I'm sure there were scenes imitating the ones from "Suspiria" and "Phenomena" for example, and eyeball-slitting scene was a flat-out homage to Fulci's "The New York Ripper". And music - if I heard it while my eyes were blindfolded and was asked what it is - I'd say it's Goblin's soundtrack to some new Argento movie. "Evil Dead Trap" (apart from having a stupid title) is at times absurd, surreal and strange but without a doubt very stylish, original and fresh although as I said is reminiscent of many Italian horrors. That's a very pleasant fact considering it was made in 1988. I'm not sure you'll like it if you have just a shadowy idea about Japanise horror, but if you are an aficionado - I bet this movie would be interesting for you. Entertaining but uneven Japanese slasher March 27, 2005 1 out of 1 found this review helpful Until its final (disappointing) reels, "Evil Dead Trap" is basically a slasher film with an intriguing premise: The hostess of a late-night TV show for Insomniacs solicits home videos from her viewers. She receives a tape that follow a van as it makes its way outside the city to an abandoned military complex. Inside, the faceless videographer appears to torture and then murder a woman. The TV show host gets a crew together to investigate - WRONG move. Someone or some thing lies in the shadows, ready to torture and murder Nami's crew one by one. What could he want with Nami? The first thing you should know about "Evil Dead Trap" is that its violence is far more intense than your average US slasher. Fans of Dario Argento or Lucio Fulci (whose work "EDT" mines extensively) probably won't be shocked by the level of violence, but your casual viewer might be turned off by the sheer brutality of the carnage. Unlike say Jason or Freddy, the faceless killer of "Evil Dead Trap" isn't content to just murder his victims. Nope, this baddy wants to actually torture them in a series of highly sadistic and elaborate set pieces. The body count isn't especially high, but it does include intense, graphic scenes of eye-gouging, a cleaver to the head, a garote/neck-snapping, etc. Gorehounds will love it; casual horror fans might be seriously put off. Aside from the brutality, what sets "Evil Dead Trap" apart for me is the stylish camera work and chilly atmosphere of the film. Corridors of the labyrinthian military base are lit with bold Technicolors. There's a gorgeous scene set in the fog-drenched woods outside. The soundtrack is unintrusive but effectively creepy. I'd never realized how much Japanese horror was incluenced by Italian gaillo and gore films, but fans of Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci will recognize little stylistic flourishes throughout "Evil Dead Trap." There are some plot gaps. For one thing, if I'd received a snuff film in the mail, my first response would be to contact the police - NOT to investigate the source on my own! Even assuming the film was fake, the kind of person who'd stage a mock snuff that features a woman getting her eye pierced by a large, sharp poker (in graphic, disgusting detail) is not the kind of person I want to meet. The first few minutes of the movie require some serious suspension of disbelief ... And the ending is a letdown. "Evil Dead Trap" is so stylish that for the first hour or so I started to enjoy the fairly by-the-numbers predictability of it all. The last half an hour veers into some highly ridiculous Freudian psychobabble terrain that didn't seem to fit. I give the screenwriter/director credit for trying to do something different, but the ending is a serious departure from the rest of the film. The last half an hour or so seems to lag, and things get uninteresting once "Evil Dead Trap" tries to explain itself. Anyway, all that said - ANY fan of Japanese or Eurohorror will enjoy the movie, and US horror fans who have a stomach for graphic violence should be entertained. "Evil Dead Trap" is uneven and flawed, but it kept me rivetted for most of the film.