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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. Nami hosts a late night home video program. She receives a tape which appears to be a real snuff film. She and her crew investigate the location where she meets a man looking for his brother who warns her to stay away. As she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.

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Bonus Materials

• Audio Commentary with Director Toshiharu Ikeda and SPFX Manager Shinichi Wakasa
• Audio Commentary by filmmaker Kurando Mitsutake (KARATE KILL, GUN WOMAN)
• Audio Commentary with James Mudge of easternKicks
• Trappings of the Dead - Reflecting on a Japanese Cult Classic
• Storyboards
• Behind the Scenes Stills
• Promotional Artwork
• Trailer

Sales Points

• Brand new transfer and restoration!
• 'Evil Dead Trap' received positive reviews from critics, with praise highlighting the film's mixing of giallo and slasher film genres, cinematography, and special effects!
• Special effects created by Shinichi Wakasa who would go on to a career as a monster-suit maker for several Godzilla films.
• 'Evil Dead Trap' was released theatrically in Japan as 'Shiryō no wana' (死霊の罠) on May 14, 1988 and it was later released in Japan on VHS on September 25, 1988.
• Classic 1988 Japanese slasher film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda (Mermaid Legend) and originally produced by Japan Home Video.

Press Quotes

Fun and well crafted!

     —John Condit, Dread Central

FOUR STARS [out of five]... an effective and bloody slasher.

     —Mark Dinning, Empire Magazine

FOUR STARS [out of four]... The best of contemporary J-Horror cinema... [Dario] Argento's films are an obvious inspiration

     —Thomas and Yuko Weisser, Japanese Cinema: Essential Handbook