Evil Ed (1996)

Released by: Unapix
Release date: 09/24/1996
Rating:
Running time: 93 mins
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Format: VHS, NTSC
MSRP: Out of print.


It's a no brainer, Evil Ed offers gore and gags, but not a whole lot of coherent story, so you can just switch your brain off while watching the movie. Evil Ed is a low budget Swedish horror film from, well, Sweden of course and is the story of Edward. Ed's an editor who gets transferred to work at European Pictures' Horror and Gore department where he has been assigned the position of editing the Loose Limbs series of films. Forced to watch hours upon hours of exploitive horror footage, Ed starts seeing visions of killings and weird creatures occupying the refrigerator. Soon enough his wife gets worried and she takes her daughter to visit him at work. Bad idea.

At this point, Ed has gone bonkers and he kills his family. Cops show up and Ed is sent to an insane asylum. He escapes, kidnaps a girl, and her boyfriend comes to the rescue. That's pretty much the entire movie.

So now I bet you think I just ruined it. Well, maybe, but it's still worth tracking down a copy because of the gore and the ending. Evil Ed has the best splatterific shotgun-to-the-hand-and-then-the-arm-and-then-the-chest-and-finally-the-top-of the head-exploding kill scene. Yes, it's long winded, but it has to be seen to be believed! Evil Ed is not a great movie, or really even a good movie for that matter, but it's worth at least one viewing, and just watching the last scene alone on loop is worth the price of admission.

MOVIE: 2.5 out of 5.