Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Shiryô no wana aka Evil Dead Trap - T. Ikeda - Japan - (1988)



Plot by Imdb: "A TV station employee takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there, only to end up running for her life when a small, fetus-like creature murders her crew."

Wonderful trip back to the crazy 80's japanese video production years, even if this J-V is obviously very inspired by the gialli and the US slashers of that time. The music sounds like it came from a mix between Carpenter's electronic keyboard & The Goblins...The mysterious murderer wears a rain coat, like any slashers psycho from that time. Also typical from that decade, the murders are complicated and/or just weird in their execution. The story is filled with holes and  is pretty ludicrous, specially the final. Lot's of weird murders, lot's of smoke, lot's of blue light (a typical lightning in the Japanese Video years) and finally a good time. Not the masterpiece I though it was but a solid slasher with a gory final. For the perverts out there, a noticeable supporting role by Hitomi Kobayashi, the queen of AV during more than a decade.


 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  


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