Sometimes at work Aki sees a little boy in the movie theatre. His name is Hideki. You may recall Hideki as the name of the little freak from Evil Dead Trap that sort of lived inside his homicidal brother and ran around killing people (or was that his homicidal brother and Hideki was along for the ride?). As confusing and stupid as the Hideki character was in Evil Dead Trap, they manage to take things to a whole new level in this one.

Hideki is now a mean ghost and he seems to be haunting everyone in Osaka. There’s Aki who sees Hideki everywhere she goes. There’s her good friend Ami who may or may not be pregant with Hideki and then there is their mutual friend named Kurashi. Kurashi is a married guy whose wife spends all her time in a child’s bedroom playing with his toys and telling her husband that Hideki is going to come back sometime. It think it is obvious that we are supposed to think that Hideki was their kid and that it died, causing the mother to become unhinged. That makes sense to me. What didn’t make sense was that later in the movie his wife says that Hideki finally came home and Kurashi notices a pair of children’s shoes and sure enough there’s that little Hideki bugger staring at him. That’s all well and good, but why is Aki having visions of him and why has Ami gone crazy and started killing people once she became pregnant with Kurashi’s child?

Maybe I should back up and explain all about the serial killing that Aki is involved in (not the pregnant Ami) and the abortion she apparently had and the strange cult she gets mixed up in. See, this is all starting to come together like some big soupy, wormy crap pie. Ami and Aki have dinner and Ami introduces Aki to Kurashi. He wants to bang the attractive Ami (and he does later), but he spends most of his time putting the moves on the less than conventionally attractive Aki. She constantly rebuffs him by shooting him sour glances that only emphasize her chins and by pretty much ignoring him. He’s one of those guys that’s about as likely to give up on trying to nail Aki as Aki is likely to give up trying to nail an extra piece of pie. This is a very dull relationship because these characters are so poorly drawn that you have no idea why he is attracted to her and why he persists in trying to hump her. You also have no earthly idea why she would turn him down or why her good looking friend would hang out with such a downer of chick to begin with, especially when her man keeps hitting on her.

At some point in time after she turns this guy down, Aki goes out and kills some other chick and guts her. She does this to another girl later as well. You may think it is quite the nice little coincidence that Ami is the TV reporter covering the murders, but it’s about as plausible as the fact that Ami gets all hot and bothered by covering the murders. I was never sure what all that meant, but luckily for me the manager of the movie theatre comes to the conclusion that Aki must have had an abortion at some time in her past and that’s why she’s seeing boys who aren’t really there. I thought it was nice that she had an understanding employer that didn’t put her on suspension when she revealed that she was a whack job. Of course he refers her to a cult that he has some interest in, so I guess it’s all a wash. I feel compelled to note that he was featured once more in this film in the big “urinal cleaning” scene.

Aki runs off to a cult meeting and is diagnosed with some type of evil presence surrounding her. Aki leaves the cult after awhile and gets into a knife fight with Ami over abortions, pregnancy, and/or their stupid boyfriend. Any regularly sucky movie would have had Aki either kill Ami or have Ami fend her off and escape or kill her in self-defense. Evil Dead Trap 2? Ami has gone nuts herself and has taken to dismembering guys with a box cutter! If you’ve never seen two crazy, serial killer broads with blades go toe to toe, then this would be the high point of the movie for you!

Aki thinks that she’s top of the heap (you know how serial killers are) and is just going to come in to Ami’s crib and gut her like the other skanks. Imagine her surprise when Ami bust out the box cutter on her and slashes her face and arms. Lots of pushing and shoving and tackling ensue with Aki escaping with her life only by pushing Ami into her bathtub which is full of some dude’s arms, legs, and head. I think Ami was babbling about how her baby needed nourishment or was that during their return knifefight at the shopping mall five minutes later? No matter because we’ve moved on to the movie theatre where Aki hooks up with Kurashi and makes out with him. That goes straight into the crapper once he starts ripping her wounds open, calling himself a child and tormenting her until she’s lying on the ground crying as he pours a beverage on her head! How’s he going to top that on their next date?

Aki and Ami’s next battle is in glorious slow motion! Highlights include Ami cutting off her broken arm and feeding it down a drain to her baby and Aki getting herself trapped on an operating table and thinking that Kurashi is doing something to her naughty bits with some type of instrument that looks like an airbrush, but then waking up and realizing it was just a halluciantion. Aki and Ami both fall down a hole into a bunch of water. Ami has her baby here and out pops a fully grown beautiful Kurashi! Aki takes this opportunity to bash him in the head with pipe. Then she watches as Hideki pops up from under the water!

Some have called it surreal, but the only thing surreal about any of this is that I paid money to not just watch this, not just to rent this, but to own this! I guess this all revolved that evil little brat Hideki and the bad influence he had on these people, but why? What was his beef with them? Aki was haunted by an abortion, Kurashi was haunted by the death of a child and Ami was turned on by it all. At least I think that’s kind of what was happening, but why did Hideki’s ghost care? And how is he involved in any of this since we last some him coming out of a chick’s neck in Evil Dead Trap? Evil Dead Trap 3: Broken Love Killer follows for no real reason.

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