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Evil Ed

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Evil Ed is an awesome movie if you own the VHS edition the dvd release by IMAGE Entertainment has all the gore scenes taken out!!! Ardustry Entertainment is re-releaseing the film Oct. 4 2005 in it's full gory glory!!! So I recommend waiting and getting that version.

The movie itself is pretty awsome though, in the unedited version it has exploding heads, chopped torsos, and other cool scenes, plus the movie is halarious and has a lot of reference to the evil dead series

Guys, I can only refer to the guy who asy the movie in Sweden. They say that it is uncut, but it is not! The swedish release offers more gore and a bucket of blood here and there. No, it is not a gore-gore kind of film, but it is not meant to be. The movie features some of the elite of swedish actors on orders to make the movie exactly as it is. The dubbing is made on purpose, don't think anything else! It is a classic here in Sweden and has earned its place in the swedish hall-of-fame of swedish horror-films (scarce as they may be) See this movie for some laughs, not to be scared.

Enjoy! :o)

This movie is great. I would give it 4 stars if it wasnt for the fact that this dvd version has 3 minutes of gore cut out. Dont be fooled. It says unrated on the back but this is definatley the R rated version....its a shame.

In 1994 Sid was doing the usual weekend happy times when an interesting film appeared at our local video stores horror section. It looked so awful that we were just drawn to it, much thanks to our recent screening of Death Ring in which our eyes were opened to the goodness of b. The film was called Wicked Games and we were told by the young video attendant "I don't know where this came from. I don't even think I can rent this out." Luckily we got it and were blown away by the ultra poor quality which we just seemed to love. It's very rare to find such a piece of garbage that enjoyable which is why were thrown for a loop with Evil Ed. Years back Sid's cousin saw this and said it was simply the worst thing he'd ever seen, and this stuck with us all these years. Somehow we were able to have a watch and discovered this one's right on par with the 94 classic Wicked Games.

This one opens up with a crazed film editor blowing up his own head by putting a grenade in his mouth. The scene is one of the most ridiculous things we've ever seen, but in the right way where you can't help but crack up. So it moves forward with a man Edward who takes the job of the newly deceased film editor. He's being forced to watch a film series called "Loose Limbs" which is said to be filled with tons of gore, nudity, and lots of sexy time. The more he watches the more he begins to unravel seeing strange visions of creatures in turn making him loose his mind. Once off the deep end he begins killing his co-workers and anyone that shows up at his house or in the nut house.

Evil Ed turned out to be an extremely enjoyable flick in the worst way possible. In no way will you enjoy this if you go into it with any expectations higher then bottom of the barrel low. It really is just awful in every sense but will be enjoyed by a very particular viewer. You really have to be like us and be able to find beauty in films like Wicked Games, Grim, Uncle Sam and many other poor choices. The acting is horrendous, the gore is so over the top, and the killings are just hilarious forcing you to laugh on a constant basis. For us Evil Ed was worth three stars under no controlled substances what so ever. If you laced the evening up with a little something it may have been a five star event, if that is even humanly possible. Guess it's just another disastrous gem from the old age of 90's horror.

This movie is great. I would give it 4 stars if it wasnt for the fact that this dvd version has 3 minutes of gore cut out. Dont be fooled. It says unrated on the back but this is definatley the R rated version....its a shame.

I watched this movie in Sweden (where the movie was made) and it was in its beautiful uncut glory. However, this Americanized version, bastardizes everything that makes this movie so cool........ The end scene is one of the best gore scenes ever produced and even in this, the uncut DVD, it is cut. The irony here is this issue is addressed in the movie (cutting), where "EVIL ED" himself is cutting a part in a movie so bad, that its actually a comedic moment.

Its sad that movie distributors like Apix destroy excellent movies like this.

this is the best movie i've ever seen. I love A-PIX movies because they are so dumb, that they are hilarious. This is the best one yet. I've never laughed so hard at a movie that wasn't supposed to be funny. The movie is about a movie editor that replaces and old one, and he goes crazy, and starts to kill everyone. To tell how dumb this movie is, i'll describe the beginning. There is a crazy movie editor cutting up all of these movie tapes. His boss tries to get in, but the door is locked. The boss finally breaks down the door, and movie editor, who had put a grenade in his mouth, blows up. The boss responds with, "You're Fired!" If you need a good laugh, then watch this movie, or, if you want to see the dumbest movie ever, then I also recommend this movie. - CIAO !!!

I love this movie but this DVD isn't really that great for the medium. It advertised "Widescreen" at the top of the box, but when you play it you can barely see any black bands at the top or bottom of the picture, it's more like FULLSCREEN. There aren't any extra features on the DVD besides chapter stops, so for the price it's not a great value. The audio and video quality are very good however. Also, it advertised this DVD movie version as the Unrated version, but it appears to be just the standard R version like the VHS edition.

That's the line on the front of the "Evil Ed" box here in Belgium. The cover displays a drawn man, whose head is cut in 2 by an axe. Although the movie has it's gory moments, people who dislike gore: no scene in the movie is as gory as it's cover (which is a shame-i'll explain).

Although i read in most of the interviews that the film is a kind of tribute to "Evil Dead", director Sam Raimi and actor Bruce Campbell, i think also of the movie "Braindead" (or "Dead Alive", as it is called in America). "Braindead" is the unbeatable combination of extreme gore, injected with brilliant humor. I don't know if the version of "Braindead" is cut in America, but if you ever see the uncut version, you have seen horror at its goriest... and funniest.

The problem with "Evil Ed" is that the movie never dares to cross the line which "Braindead" leapt over. The opening sequence is just pure genius (the first, quite demented, editor blows off his own head with a handgrenade while his cool, emotionless boss watches and tells he's fired!), but then the creators pull back and seem to be happy to offer little gore, combined with a more satirical kind of humor. And that just doesn't work quite as it should be. The director tried to put the humor in the English dubbing and the idiotic acting. It appears also that the worst gore is in the movies which Ed cuts out. This all points (for me) that even their 'uncut' version of the movie is still a film which seems 'cut'. And that's a shame, because the final sequence of the film shows the genius of the first sequence.

To say it short: opening and ending great, the middle a little boring. To be quite honest: since "Braindead", many so-called gory movies seem like child's play to me. But even people who have seen less of this kind, will notice that this movie just could have been better.

If you look at the whole film, though, and you are not too demanding, it's quite amusing to watch how Ed becomes more stressed and demented by all the gore he has to cut out.

If nothing else is in your video store, you can rend this. But if you want to see a "top class" example, get "Braindead"

A hilarious, enjoyable movie. The writers must have loved Evil Dead 2, because not only does the movie's title mimic the beloved cult classic, but there are three different locations in Evil Ed that sport an Evil Dead 2 poster on the wall. This also has one of the best endings I've ever seen, and the one-liners are perfectly integrated into the movie. A-Pix has yet another winner.