Nami is a host of a late-night TV show where viewers send in their home movies.
One day she receives a tape in the post and pops it in to watch. At first, she thinks it's just another generic film made to creep people out until it turns in a snuff film with a girl being tortured and then murdered.
Something about the film makes Nami feel as it is real and convinces her station manager to go investigate the tape with her team. Nami and her team then go to investigate and use the video as a guide to find the place.
They find the building which turns out to be a disused military base and split into groups to explore and see if the video was indeed real. While exploring Nami bumps into a stranger who claims is looking for his brother who tells her this place is not a playground and to leave when they can.
The team are then slowly picked off one at a time by a mysterious man clad in camouflage and his face covered, until only Nami is left.
The stranger from before helps Nami escape but she then sees the killer removing the corpse of her friend and another victim and decides she needs to end this once and for all.
The killer is revealed to be the stranger who helped her escape although he is controlled by his brother Hideki who is a small foetus like conjoined twin. The stranger fights the urge of his twin to kill Nami which leads to a showdown to Nami eventually killing them.
Evil Dead Trap has been a film I've been wanting to watch for years after seeing trailers for it and finally now seeing it, it has not disappointed.
It feels in places like a Japanese giallo, which I think the soundtrack also helps give that impression. It is very brutal in places and some very gory practical effects. I do think the ending may be not to everyone's taste as I guess the whole conjoined twin (who seems to have supernatural powers?!) knocks the whole film out the ballpark on craziness.
Despite the ending getting even weirder near the end, for which I won't spoil! That scene is something I could imagine coming from a Junji Ito comic!
There are two sequels, but I think they are not connected to this film in anyway but just in name.
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