a Trap

Toshiharu Ikeda directed this provocative horror film. Miyuki Ono stars as Nami, a talk-show hostess who receives a grotesque snuff video in the mail. She is outraged as she sees a young woman horribly murdered on the tape, complete with a truly foul sequence in which a blade is graphically plunged into the victim's eyeball. With her crew, Nami decides to track down the killer, leading her to an abandoned factory where her crew is repulsively slaughtered one by one. The outlandish ending depicts a man giving birth to his own split personality. Fumi Katsuragi, Hitomi Kobayashi, and Eriko Nakagawa co-star in this sickening but riveting slasher, which closely imitates Italian thrillers by Dario Argento and Lamberto Bava in style.

"THE TRAP" is a modern film noir reflecting the true face of Serbian (Eastern European) 'society in transition.' It's a story that could happen to you. It is a film about an ordinary man, who is forced to choose between life and death of his own child.

Shortly after learning that his young son has only days to live, a mysterious stranger appears and offers to save the boy's life if his father will murder a complete stranger. The man must choose between the life of his child and his own mortality. In this cat and mouse thriller no one is as they appear and death and intrigue lurk around every corner. THE TRAP will leave you asking if murder is ever justified?