Evil Easter 3: The Final Easter is the final installment in a series of weird slasher-spoofs. Unlike the first part, this segment is neither a fake-trailer or about a killer rabbit but about pagan Nazis that are vampires and werewolves trying to summon a goddess. A catholic priest and a trio that hunts nazis for fun tries to stop them. Somehow Charles Manson is involved.
Started as a fake trailer but mutated into a an entire film.
Evil Easter 3 contains examples of the following tropes:
- Ascended Extra: The Nazis, compared to the second segment when they appeared.
- Affectionate Parody: Of the more "conventional" slasher films and their often similarly out-there plots.
- Argentina Is Nazi-Land: The Nazis claim they come from South America and that everybody talks like them where they come from.
- Big Bad: Oberstgruppenfürer Heinrich von Teufelkraft is the one directing the efforts to resurrect the goddess for all sorts of evil Nazi stuff.
- Blasphemous Boast: The opening credits roll over a shot of a cross burned by the Nazis, during the climax a sculpture of Christ burns.
- Bloodier and Gorier: Than the previous entries that were gore free, this one has some rather disgusting gore.
- Brief Accent Imitation: Conrad speaks American for no apparent reason when he briefs Heinrich about his opinion on Manson.
- Conflict Killer: The Nazis, it seems. It turns out they were the ones who created the killer Easter bunny.
- Creator Cameo: The filmmakers play the lead villains.
- Demoted to Extra: The Easter bunny is hardly in the movie, but when it does show up...
- Eldritch Abomination: Lamp Head, The Mad Hatter and that Mouthless Pope.
- Eostre turns out to be one near the end.
- Eye Scream: Heinrich then squeezes out The Antiquarian's eyes. Later, the Nazi Ape is shot in the eye. They are played by the same actor.
- Faceless Goons: The minions of Heinrich wear masks.
- Fake-Out Fade-Out: When you think the movie has ended and the screen cuts to black, the really strange stuff starts to happen.
- Gainax Ending: The ending is a completely random mix of the freak-out scenes from Neon Genesis Evangelion and the endings of the Lords of Salem and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- Gondor Calls for Aid: Two thirds into the film the Antiquarian calls three Nazi Hunters pointing them
- Grave Robbing: The Nazis dig up a casket, presumably containing vampiric remains.
- Hair-Raising Hare: The Easter bunny.
- Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: The film takes place over the Easter week.
- I Love the Dead: Manson announces that the only way to know life is to f*ck death, much to Conrad's joy.
- Just Following Orders: Heinrich is clearly a devoted Nazi and Manson enjoys the life of a nazi, while Conrad seem to only be in it for the chance to commit acts of sadism. The only other villain to state any reason at all for their acts are Godelieve who mechanicly states that she is just following orders.
- Karma Houdini: Charles Manson gets away at the end.
- Large Ham: Heinrich, Manson, Addams, Conrad...
- Nazi Hunter: Tarkovsky, Ozu and Mördar-Anders hunt Nazis for fun.
- Nazi Nobleman: Heinrich von Teufelkraft.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Heinrich von Teufelkraft! It's German for Heinrich of the devil's power.
- One of the Nazi-hunters are named Mördar-Anders. That is Swedish for Anders the Murderer.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Poor father Adams...
- Shout-Out: The director of the film is a cineast and the film is Reference Overdosed:
- The name Conrad von Starker is taken from the Nazisploitation film L'ultima orgia del III Reich by Cesare Canevari.
- The entire prologue and flashback scene is a obvious nod to the Nazi-vampire film Frostbite.
- Operation Osterhase is clearly a spoof of Millennium from Hellsing.
- Several nods are made to Halloween II (2009).
- Manson's I Love the Dead-philosophy is taken from Flesh for Frankenstein.
- The killing of the Antiquarian is taken from the original Captain America (1990).
- Ozu shooting the Nazi Ape in the eye recreates the famous Eye Scream from The Battleship Potemkin.
- Speaking of Ozu, his name is a shout out to Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu.
- The character of Tarkovski is of course a nod to Andrei Tarkovski.
- Mördar-Anders's name is a reference to a song by artist Cornelis Vreejsvik.
- The dreamsequence is a straight shout out to the mad tea party in Alice in Wonderland.
- A lot of nods to The Lords of Salem.
- The Climax: The Nazis start their ritual, as the Nazi hunters run in and shoot up the place.
- Those Wacky Nazis: And how! Heinrich von Teufelkraft is a tall, blonde man with round, black glasses who embodies "Smooth Nazis" like Hans Landa and The Major. His righthand man Conrad von Starker is a sadistic Sociopathic Soldier how speaks with a high pitched voice when excited.
- Truth in Television: Jacob Grimm's theory about the legend of the Easter bunny being connected to the goddess Eostre is not made up, but an actual theory. Though there is not much evidence that such a goddess was worshipped by the ancient Germans, except for a Roman centurion's notes. The Nazis seeing Christianity as a Jewish invention that need to be destroyed was a real opinion of occult Nazis like Alfred Rosenberg. Also the information about the Thule Society is also close to real life.
- World Gone Mad: What did you expect in a horror film set on Easter with pagan Nazis playing a major role?
