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Evil Ed (1997)

Evil Ed poster
Directed by
Anders Jacobsson
Genre
comedy film, comedy horror, horror film
Country
Sweden
Runtime
1h 33m
Rated
18
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 83 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A peaceful film editor is assigned to a horror movie department after his predecessor goes insane. As he is forced to edit gory scenes, he slowly loses his mind and starts a killing spree.

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What happens

Evil Ed is a 1995 Swedish horror comedy film directed, co-written, edited and shot by Anders Jacobsson and starring Johan Rudebeck, Per Löfberg and Olof Rhodin. The film's plot follows the ordinary peaceful film editor Edward Tor Swenson, who is transferred to a movie company's horror department after the last employee went insane, and as he has to watch and edit gory movie scenes, Ed goes insane, and embark on a murder spree. Evil Ed was originally titled The Censor and made over the course of three years. It premiered on November 11, 1995 at the Stockholm International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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