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 Snuff Film 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.
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.
Not to be confused with the Evil Dead franchise.
This film provides examples of:
- Abandoned Area: The main location of the film is an abandoned industrial complex.
- Booby Trap: 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....
- Chest Burster: Hideki leaves his hosts by bursting through their chests.
- Didn't Think This Through: Having sex in an old, abandoned army building with dirt floors? There's no way your clothes are gonna stay clean.
- Downer Ending: Nami survives the ordeal, but at the very end it is revealed that Hideki survived by hiding inside her.
- Eye Scream : The snuff film that Nami receives has a very gruesome shot of the nameless victim's eyes being slit open with a knife
- Final Girl: In the end, Nami is the only person alive from her crew.
- Giallo: Not officially, but Western critics have compared the film favorably.
- Gory Deadly Overkill Title of Fatal Death
- Mutants: The main killer is a mutant baby named Hideki who lives within his twin brother and can come and go as he pleases.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Rei gets killed by being impaled with metal bars that come through the floor and the wall behind her.
- Playing with Fire: Hideki has pyrokinetic powers that mostly manifest as fiery explosions.
- Super Window Jump: 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.
