Despite lacking a cool older relative or friend to show me the ropes, my early exposure to the horror genre was fairly conventional. I started with the big slasher franchises then worked my way through other genre classics before seeking out increasingly obscure titles — a journey that continues to this day. After binging through Halloween, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street, I soon discovered Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead trilogy.
Well before the remake or Ash vs. Evil Dead, I distinctly recall reading about unofficial Evil Dead installments on web forums to sate my appetite while waiting for the franchise’s long-gestating fourth entry. There’s the La Casa series in Italy, wherein unrelated movies were marketed as Evil Dead sequels, and Japan’s Evil Dead Trap, whose similarities to Raimi’s work begin and end with the title. But the one movie that always eluded me was The Japanese Evil Dead.
Well before the remake or Ash vs. Evil Dead, I distinctly recall reading about unofficial Evil Dead installments on web forums to sate my appetite while waiting for the franchise’s long-gestating fourth entry. There’s the La Casa series in Italy, wherein unrelated movies were marketed as Evil Dead sequels, and Japan’s Evil Dead Trap, whose similarities to Raimi’s work begin and end with the title. But the one movie that always eluded me was The Japanese Evil Dead.
- 9/7/2022
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Stars: Shinichi Fukazawa, Masaaki Kai, Asako Nosaka | Written and Directed by Shinichi Fukazawa
When a film has a name like Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell, it comes with certain expectations. Described as the Japanese Evil Dead, that is a lofty claim. So, can the crazy-titled film also live up to the name of Evil Dead?
When a bodybuilder, his ex-girlfriend and a professional psychic enter a haunted house, they soon find themselves trapped within it. With the spirit of a murdered woman obsessed with keeping the bodybuilder within the house, it seems that the ghost’s secret may be connected with the bodybuilder’s father. It may seem strange just calling the main character the “bodybuilder” but this is how simplistic the characters are. This isn’t a bad thing, as really these characters don’t have to be too deep. We are given a “grudge” style haunting, an...
When a film has a name like Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell, it comes with certain expectations. Described as the Japanese Evil Dead, that is a lofty claim. So, can the crazy-titled film also live up to the name of Evil Dead?
When a bodybuilder, his ex-girlfriend and a professional psychic enter a haunted house, they soon find themselves trapped within it. With the spirit of a murdered woman obsessed with keeping the bodybuilder within the house, it seems that the ghost’s secret may be connected with the bodybuilder’s father. It may seem strange just calling the main character the “bodybuilder” but this is how simplistic the characters are. This isn’t a bad thing, as really these characters don’t have to be too deep. We are given a “grudge” style haunting, an...
- 8/18/2022
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
"Gory, insane, and fun." "Splatter masterpiece." Wild Eye Releasing has debuted a new trailer for the long lost Japanese horror knockoff film titled officially Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (or Jigoku No Chimidoro Muscle Builder). The unofficial title is, of course, The Japanese Evil Dead because this is a Japanese remake of Sam Raimi's original Evil Dead. Never heard of this? Time to get caught up! Writer / director Shinichi Fukazawa started filming this back in 1995, but "it wasn’t until over 10 years later that the low-budget 8mm splatter film was actually finished." And even then, it still has never shown in the Us or been available to watch at all. Until now! Wild Eye will be releasing it in the Us this year, finally, after all this time. Shinichi Fukazawa also stars as Shinji, the Japanese "Bruce Campbell", who goes to an abandoned home with his girlfriend but...
- 6/15/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Stars: Shinichi Fukazawa, Masaaki Kai, Asako Nosaka | Written and Directed by Shinichi Fukazawa
When a film has a name like Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell, it comes with certain expectations. Described as the Japanese Evil Dead, that is a lofty claim. So, can the crazy titled film live up to the name of Evil Dead?
When a bodybuilder, his ex-girlfriend and a professional psychic enter a haunted house, they soon find themselves trapped within it. With the spirit of a murdered women obsessed with keeping the bodybuilder within the house, it seems that the ghost’s secret may be connected with the bodybuilder’s father. It may seem strange just calling the main character the “bodybuilder” but this is how simplistic the characters are. This isn’t a bad thing, as really these characters don’t have to be too deep. We are given a “grudge” style haunting, an...
When a film has a name like Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell, it comes with certain expectations. Described as the Japanese Evil Dead, that is a lofty claim. So, can the crazy titled film live up to the name of Evil Dead?
When a bodybuilder, his ex-girlfriend and a professional psychic enter a haunted house, they soon find themselves trapped within it. With the spirit of a murdered women obsessed with keeping the bodybuilder within the house, it seems that the ghost’s secret may be connected with the bodybuilder’s father. It may seem strange just calling the main character the “bodybuilder” but this is how simplistic the characters are. This isn’t a bad thing, as really these characters don’t have to be too deep. We are given a “grudge” style haunting, an...
- 4/26/2017
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Quite a story behind this production, since Shinichi Fukazawa had to wait for almost 15 years to complete it. The pre-production started in 1995, but Fukazawa took 10 years to shoot over 10 hours of footage on Super 8 film. Editing began in 2005, after the rough 8mm footage was transferred to digital video, but various issues in post-production would cause the director further delays. Undeterred by these frequent problems, personal dept and time lost, Shinichi Fukazawa would finally announce that “Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell” was complete in 2009.
(source: http://www.attackfromplanetb.com/2017/01/bloody-muscle-body-builder-in-hell-2009-2014/)
Terracotta Distribution released the film on DVD April 24, 2017.
The story is worthy of a true trash film. Shinji is a body-builder who spends his time exercising inside a house he knows is haunted, but does not seem to mind. One day, he receives a call from his ex-girlfriend, who is currently working as a reporter and prepares an article on haunted houses.
(source: http://www.attackfromplanetb.com/2017/01/bloody-muscle-body-builder-in-hell-2009-2014/)
Terracotta Distribution released the film on DVD April 24, 2017.
The story is worthy of a true trash film. Shinji is a body-builder who spends his time exercising inside a house he knows is haunted, but does not seem to mind. One day, he receives a call from his ex-girlfriend, who is currently working as a reporter and prepares an article on haunted houses.
- 4/20/2017
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The cellar door has been opened and the official UK trailer for comedy horror Bloody Muscle Builder in Hell (aka The Japanese Evil Dead) has escaped! Trapped inside a haunted house, a body builder battles a gruesome ghost, hell-bent on revenge in Shinichi Fukazawa’s tongue-in-cheek splatter comedy. Originally released in Japan as The Japanese Evil Dead, Bloody Muscle Builder in Hell is an affectionate tribute to Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead films, featuring an incompetent, square-jawed anti-hero and grungy stop-motion effects.
After a surprise phone call interrupts his daily workout, beefy body builder Shinji agrees to meet his photojournalist ex-girlfriend to help with her research on haunted houses. Accompanied by a professional psychic, they visit an abandoned house once owned by Shinji’s father. But inside the house a dark secret lingers and they find themselves trapped and tormented by a relentless ghost with a 30 year grudge …
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After a surprise phone call interrupts his daily workout, beefy body builder Shinji agrees to meet his photojournalist ex-girlfriend to help with her research on haunted houses. Accompanied by a professional psychic, they visit an abandoned house once owned by Shinji’s father. But inside the house a dark secret lingers and they find themselves trapped and tormented by a relentless ghost with a 30 year grudge …
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- 3/14/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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