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Evil Dead Trap (1988)

Evil Dead Trap poster
Original title
死霊の罠
Directed by
Toshiharu Ikeda
Genre
horror film
Country
Japan
Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
R
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 98 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A TV news crew investigates a disturbing videotape and goes to an abandoned building to find its source. One by one they are stalked and killed by a mysterious, unseen force.

unsettlingtensegrimyclaustrophobicnightmarishpulsingabandonedvisceral

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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