Evil Ed is about Edward, a somewhat nerdy film cutter who works for the culture department but later gets to work with a movie project called Loose Limbs which is a gory horror series. Working on that and seeing all the gore, blood and violence makes Edward slowly go more and more insane and turn into Evil Ed.
There are not too many horror movies coming out of Sweden, and with me being swedish myself I must say it's a shame.
With Evil Ed things changed, well not really changed but it was something different anyway, as it's not just another horror movie. It's a movie in the same vein as Braindead and Bad Taste with loads of splatter and gore and that's always welcome.
One thing though with Evil Ed that is both cool and at the same time a bit stupid is that the actors in it speak english, I don't know why they decided to do that but in one way it's pretty cool but on the other hand some of them tend to have this very strong "swedish-english" accent which is quite horrible to listen to.
But if you can get pass that the movie is very entertaining, humorous and offers more than a fair share of splatter and gore.
Evil Ed is a low budget movie but considering the small amount of money that was put in making this flick, it turned out really good. The effects are very well done and gives a good result.
The movie has a little of everything and will definitely work for fans of splatter. It has a lot of twisted humour and I think it's great they could come up with a movie like this and I hope we'll get to see some other similar stuff coming out of Sweden in the future. But it's really hard to expect anything.
Pretty much in the same style as Braindead and Bad Taste. Enormous amounts of splatter, and with some humour the qite works at times. For being a low-budget movie, it's very well done and really entertaining to watch.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Censor!
MOVIE YEAR: 1997
DIRECTOR: Anders Jacobsson
WRITING CREDITS: Anders Jacobsson, Göran Lundström
GENRE: Horror, Comedy, Splatter
CAST: Johan Rudebeck, Olof Rhodin, Gert Fylking
COUNTRY: Sweden
RUNTIME: 93 min
RATING: 7/10
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