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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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