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Summary: Tokio goes Argento
Review: It will only make sense if you're a gorehound... (like me). Stealing "to much" from Argento stylistic surrealism, Japanesse director Toshiharu Ikeda fails to deliver an asian Suspiria in every level.The films starts out very promising and begins to fade out into a senseless vortex of un-control subplots that leads to nowhere...the ending really makes no sense!...but this does not make the movie less entertaining...is just that it doen't make any sense. Now, what you do get is some very gruesome gore scenes of disturbing carnage, a very Argento atmosphere and fotography like, and even a very, very, very Goblin like score...sometimes it sounds more Goblin than Goblin!...Even though itsn't a great film, is not bad at all ...I was deeply entertain...but the ending is just completely unfaithfull with the rest of the film.
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Summary: Tokio goes Argento
Review: It will only make sense if you're a gorehound... (like me). Stealing "to much" from Argento stylistic surrealism, Japanesse director Toshiharu Ikeda fails to deliver an asian Suspiria in every level.The films starts out very promising and begins to fade out into a senseless vortex of un-control subplots that leads to nowhere...the ending really makes no sense!...but this does not make the movie less entertaining...is just that it doen't make any sense. Now, what you do get is some very gruesome gore scenes of disturbing carnage, a very Argento atmosphere and fotography like, and even a very, very, very Goblin like score...sometimes it sounds more Goblin than Goblin!...Even though itsn't a great film, is not bad at all ...I was deeply entertain...but the ending is just completely unfaithfull with the rest of the film.
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Summary: It's shocking that this film is so [bad]
Review: Just pay attention long enough to see the incredible eye-gouging scene... If anybody out there truly believes this is the hallmark of Japanese horror films, then you haven't watched enough of them to know the difference. There is not one single moment of horror OR suspense. This was undoubtedly one of the dumbest & most dissapointing movies I've ever seen. Every scene is stolen from other horror movies. And it's all so predictable. Do they actually think people are scared when a light falls down from the ceiling, or when one of the characters jumps out of the closet in attempt to scare another character? Give me a break. And how BAD is that 80's synth pop tune which literally plays every single time something "creepy" happens?! It is apparent this director knows nothing about creating tension or atmosphere. There was stronger tension in the rolling credits of the French movie "Irreversible". Not to mention that there are spoof-horror movies from mid-90's Hong Kong which are immensibly more clever and gory than this. The worst part about this film is that it takes itself so seriously that it can't possibly be amusing. Compare it to Evil Dead II. EDII is a film so drastically better in every single way, yet it still had the wit to parody itself a little bit and make us laugh till our stomachs hurt. EDTrap has no rights to even suggest an association to such a great series as The Evil Dead.
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Summary: The flagship of Japanese splatter horror
Review: Late Night talk show hostess Nami receives a mysterious videotape that shows the brutal killing of a young woman. It also describes the way to a remote industrial area, where this snuff videotape obviously was filmed. Attracted from what she saw, Nami and her television crew drive to the area to investigate the background of the video. Now the horror starts, as one after another is killed in unbelievably sadistic fashion. Who (or better: WHAT) is the killer? This film can be called the "flagship" of Japanese splatter horror movies. Filled with style and sadism only possible in Japanese genre films, it brought new life to the genre. The gory special effects are ultra-realistic and remind of the notorious "Giniipiggu 2: Chiniku no hana". Actress Miyuki Ono, talented and beautiful, delivers a superb performance as Nami.
This DVD version isn't really better in terms of picture quality than the older Dutch release, but has better subtitles and features extras. And there's a strange difference between the two during the opening credits: Here they are white on black ground, in the dutch version they are green.
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Summary: I'm gonna make the argento fans slashing mad
Review: Shame that a rip-off of Argento is actually superior IMHO to everything he's ever done that isnt Suspiria (okay, I will admit the maggots-in-the-hair scene was done better there). The timing of Ikedas shock scenes is dead-on whereas Argento tends to drag his just a little too long. For example, check out the very Argentoish scene early in Evil Dead Trap starting with the lamp crashing down, the backward pan with the Goblinish soundtrack,
the muting of the music and the punchline. Very Argentoish (but the tears add a nice Japanese touch and an element of emotion utterly lacking in Argentos movies). Compare this to the scene in Suspiria (sigh) with the blind man and the stone eagle. You will understand what I mean by timing.
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Summary: The great white whale of horror films
Review: Simply put, next to the Exorcist and Suspiria, I have never seen any film more terrifying, uncompromising, and rufusing to very in tone. It contains some of the most graphic, kinetic and realistically brutal death scenes I have ever seen in a film. The opening scene of this movie echoes recent terrorist events(snuff footage) sent back to reporters on video tape. Although, this film was made in 1988, the horror of this scene and its use of simulated snuff footage made a statement to me, due to excellent creative filmmaking. The director used 16 millimeter film stock, so the image is grainy on purpose, to make the look of the film more realistic. When the news crew goes to the location of the murder to investigate and bring the killer to justice, they become the snuff film, the trap, if you will. The film stock the director chose, resembels old news footage in a way with the gel color creating a beauty of art house cinema, mainly giving reference to Suspiria. With our world in the state it is and people being lead into traps without knowledge to be tortured and murdered this film scared me to the bone. Absolutely amazing, mind-blowing horror that is for serious horror collectors only. Not for the uninitiated.
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Summary: Shiryo no wana.
Review: The evil dead trap is definently a strange film but it is enjoyable to a certain level, it seems that it just suffers from a bad and confusing ending. Nami who is a female reporter works for a late night T.V. show that specializes in bizzare happenings and weird hauntings or something like that, but soon a delivery arrives for Nami with a video tape that has a snuff film that shows a girl being tortured and killed in a very graphic way, Nami then decides to go to the place where this girl was killed and brings some of her collegues and friends with her and in typical fashion they all get killed. Now this is where the film gets more intresting as each member of Nami's team gets killed in a very gory way like in a slasher film only 10 times as gross especially when one of the women gets spikes petruding through her body is very painful to watch, I noticed another thing which is that the director seems to have taken or stolen some scenes from other horror film directors like Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sam Raimi and other directors as well but he definently made the film seem different then those. The film was very popular in Japan and seem to have brought in a new wave of other japanese horror films. Other japanese horror films like the guinie pig series were also released during that year in the 80's were just to gross for people to watch, I would definently not watch it as it seems to be just a stupid and fake gore film with no story at all even if I am a hardcore horror fan it doesn't seem that interesting to me.
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Summary: A Gothic Masterpiece.
Review: This is a beautiful film; Gothic and dark, the extravigant killings are set up with truly wonderful camerawork and bizarre situations. The story is only minimal, like most in this genre, but it is executed with the precision and grace of a cold razor slicing through the flesh of one of Trap's many victims. Blending the outlandish horror of the Evil Dead and the outstanding cinematography of an Argento film, this is a Gothic Masterpiece that only the slightly unstable will truly appreciate. Fulci, Argento, Evil Dead fans - and horror fans in general will dig this, even if it takes a few viewings to really feel it. Check out the 'crossbow scene', and tell me if that isn't great. Violence, gore, weird entrappings, and a mystery, this has it all. But you have to understand...
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Summary: I was disappointed.
Review: This movie certainly does start off extremely effectively, but it rapidly slips into the "pick em off one at a time" formula. Just once, I'd like to see a movie where the couple who sneak away to have sex DON'T get killed. Some of the killings are imaginatively done, but the tired approach dampens the overall effect. The final third of the movie, after most of the killing is over, becomes downright ridiculous. If a solidly stylish twenty minute beginning is worth the price of this movie to you, you will get your money's worth. Otherwise, think twice.
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Summary: Getting Better
Review: This movie is better than VERSUS or BATTLE ROYALE. It is a bit bizzare but it has a certain quality. And the BEST eye gouge seen since ZOMBIE. I liked this movie but you may not, Again, THIS IS ONE MANS OPINION> YOU BE THE JUDGE.
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