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1	[[quoteright:230:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/evil_dead_trap.jpg]]
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3	''Evil Dead Trap'', originally known in Japan as ''Shiryo no Wana'' (''死霊の罠'', literal translation being ''Trap of the Death Spirits''), revolves a late-night Japanese reporter named Nami that receives a SnuffFilm in the mail among the various other videos fans send in to appear on her show. Wanting to uncover the perpetrator herself, Nami grabs her coworkers/friends to the abandoned factory where the video was sent from. Of course, they all eventually end up getting killed.
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5	The film was followed by a sequel ''Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki'' in 1992. The 1993 film ''Evil Dead Trap 3: Broken Love Killer'' is actually ''The Brutal Insanity of Love'', an unrelated film released internationally as a part of the series since it was directed by Toshiharu Ikeda, who did the first one.
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7	[[TranslationMatchmaking Not to be confused with]] [[Franchise/EvilDead the Evil Dead franchise]].
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10	!! This film provides examples of:
11	* AbandonedArea: The main location of the film is an abandoned industrial complex.
12	* BoobyTrap: Nami is led on to find the captured Mako, who is set to die by a crossbow tied to a door handle. It fails, but there's also a second trap connected to a tripwire....
13	* ChestBurster: [[spoiler:Hideki leaves his hosts by bursting through their chests]].
14	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Having sex in an old, abandoned army building with dirt floors? There's no way your clothes are gonna stay clean.
15	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Nami survives the ordeal, but at the very end it is revealed that Hideki survived by hiding inside her]].
16	* EyeScream : The snuff film that Nami receives has a very gruesome shot of [[spoiler: the nameless victim's eyes being slit open with a knife]]
17	* FinalGirl: In the end, Nami is the only person alive from her crew.
18	* {{Giallo}}: Not officially, but Western critics have compared the film favorably.
19	* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath
20	* {{Mutants}}: The main killer is [[spoiler:a mutant baby named Hideki who lives within his twin brother and can come and go as he pleases]].
21	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Rei gets killed by being impaled with metal bars that come through the floor and the wall behind her.
22	* PlayingWithFire: [[spoiler:Hideki]] has pyrokinetic powers that mostly manifest as fiery explosions.
23	%% SexSignalsDeath : Rei, which is appropriate, given she was played by a [[CastingGag well-known porn actress]].
24	* SuperWindowJump: [[spoiler:The more human brother of the twins]] meets his end after Nami stabs him, and in panic crashes through a window to the ground below.
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Context Film / EvilDeadTrap