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Sometimes, horror movies are just about the thrills and not at all about the plot. That’s certainly the case with Evil Dead Trap (or Shiryo no Wana if you prefer). As the name implies, this is a film that is influenced by Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead films. One of Raimi’s signatures in his films is the first-person monster camera swooping through the woods, and we’re going to get a lot of that here.
There’s also going to be a lot of influence of Italian horror. There’s a sense in Evil Dead Trap of set pieces that have been created first and then the rest of the movie built around them. A lot of the music use seems to come from Argento, and the penchant for eyes feels straight out of Fulci’s playbook. What all of this means is that Evil Dead Trap is going to feature a lot of gore and not a lot of plot. The gore, more or less, is the point. You watch Evil Dead Trap because there are topless Japanese women getting killed in various ways.
