Evil Dead Trap
1988 film by Toshiharu Ikeda
Evil Dead Trap (Japanese: 死霊の罠, romanized: Shiryō no wana, lit. 'Trap of the Dead Spirits') is a 1988 Japanese supernatural slasher film directed by Toshiharu Ikeda and produced by Japan Home Video. The film stars Miyuki Ono, Yuji Honma, Aya Katsuragi, Eriko Nakagawa, Hitomi Kobayashi and Masahiko Abe, follow a television team enters an abandoned building to track down the source of a mysterious videotape before they are pursued by something unseen.
Plot
Late-night TV show host Nami asks her viewers to send in home movies; she receives a snuff film shot at a disused military base. The film ends with a superimposed image of herself, which disturbs her. Nami and her production crew—Rie, Mako, Rei, and Kondo—are granted permission by their studio to investigate and they believe their discoveries would help them regain their lost viewership.
When the crew arrives, the base appears empty and they split up to explore. Nami encounters a mysterious man, Daisuke, who advises her to leave. Rei and Kondo have sex in an abandoned machine shop. Rei then wanders off and discovers the corpse of the woman from the snuff film. A masked killer suddenly kills her by impaling her with several poles.
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