What happens when you force a film editor to watch a slew of gory, poorly done, slasher films and edit them all? A guy that ends up going completely crazy and you end up with a character that, at this point, I can almost identify with.
Edward Swenson is a film editor and a damn good one. He is so good that he has been promoted to editing film for the blood and gore division of the film studio he works for. Now he is tasked with editing the “Loose Limbs” series of movies. A run of films that is all about over the top violence, gore, and insanity (“Make a note: Beaver rape clip stays in the film.”). After editing one too many of the films, Edward snaps.
Edward begins to see things and hear strange sounds in the house he is currently editing from. He dreams one night of a man telling him that he needs him to clean up everyone. He becomes Evil Ed from this point on and decides to basically kill everyone. Starting off by beating the living crap out of the delivery boy for the film studio. Ed then murders two would-be robbers and then the head of the studio. His wife and child come by to check on him and he tries to kill them too. A neighbor calls the police and they arrest and have Ed committed. However, the movie doesn’t end there.
Evil Ed is a Swedish horror movie dubbed mostly in English, with deep roots in American horror. There are more references to American made horror movies in Evil Ed than there are in most Goth kids bedrooms. Some are more subtle than others, but if you are a hardcore fan of horror, you will constantly be picking up on them.
I watched this late the other night and really found myself identifying with the main character. That’s scary. Edward is very particular about how he puts his things away at the end of the day. At one point he is about to stop for the day, goes through his normal routine of putting things in their place, then messes it all up. That is how I am starting to feel about these reviews.
Anyway, as far as horror movies go, this one doesn’t take itself seriously. Which is good. The death scenes are mostly over the top, as shown in the first 5 mins of the film when the old editor sticks a grenade in his own mouth to commit suicide and the head of the studio tells him he is fired… after the grenade goes off. Much like the movies that it pays homage to, this is meant to be a fun and over the top gore-fest. I enjoyed it, but then again this makes movie number 29, so I don’t know how much I trust my own opinion anymore. “Rest in pieces MUTHAFUCKA!”
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