Written by Anders Jacobsson, Göran Lundström and Christer Ohlsson
Directed by Anders Jacobsson
Starring Johan Rudebeck, Per Löfberg and Olof Rhodin
Sweden, 1995
A mild-mannered film editor (Johan Rudebeck) used to working on boring, black and white art films is drafted by the “splatter and gore” department of a movie studio to edit the sex and violence out of a popular slasher film series to make it suitable for European consumption. Tasked with working in isolation night and day on this, witnessing brutal scene after brutal scene, the editor slowly starts to lose his mind until he’s transformed into a murderous slasher himself.
Great premise, right? This is a fun and energetic slasher from Swedish filmmakers who clearly idolize the EVIL DEAD films, and why wouldn’t they? They’re among the best. This is fun and inventively shot, just like the EVIL DEAD movies, though it does sort of run out of steam in the back stretch, unlike the EVIL DEAD movies. The promise of the premise and the set up is more fun than the editor’s actual crazy rampage turns out to be, and part of this might be due to the fact that I saw the “Special Ed-ition”, so it may have been padded out with extra, previously cut, scenes. But, I’ve never seen the original version, so I don’t know for sure.
In any case, it doesn’t matter, because it’s still worth checking out. It’s cool to realize there’s still fun, weird, crazy stuff out there you haven’t seen, no matter how many horror movies you watch. Even if you watch 31 every October for 16 years.
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