I try to keep to the old Cahiers du cinema dictum (I forget exactly whose) to remark what's remarkable and ignore the bad and the ordinary. The best and only thing I can think of to say about Evil Dead Trap 2 , a.k.a. Hideki, is it made me realize how good, in comparison, was the original "Evil Dead Trap." The original film was mappable in space and time. Its horror, beginning with the maybe overdone steal from Un chien andalou , grew in fits and starts, with the rhythm of life. Characters we barely knew, with overlapping points of view, roaming a terrain that in its emptiness, indoor and out, foreshadowed that of Kairo...But save that for the comment I may yet write there.
Any who let sympathy for EDT2's corpulent heroine trap you into excusing the rest of the film would do better to seek out Junji Sakamoto's wondrous and just as lethal, in its own way, Kao (face) or even Catherine Breillat's hard to watch Á ma soeur! a.k.a. Fat Girl .
Any who let sympathy for EDT2's corpulent heroine trap you into excusing the rest of the film would do better to seek out Junji Sakamoto's wondrous and just as lethal, in its own way, Kao (face) or even Catherine Breillat's hard to watch Á ma soeur! a.k.a. Fat Girl .