Evil Ed (1995)

A mild-mannered film editor is assigned to cut a series of infamous slasher films and is driven murderously insane by the miles of extremely violent footage he edits.

Director:

Anders Jacobsson

Writers:

Anders Jacobsson (screenplay), Göran Lundström (screenplay)

Stars:

Johan Rudebeck, Per Löfberg, Olof Rhodin

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Johan Rudebeck	...	Edward "Eddie" Tor Swenson
Per Löfberg	...	Nick
Olof Rhodin	...	Sam Campbell
Camela Leierth	...	Mel
Gert Fylking	...	SWAT team lieutenant
Cecilia Ljung	...	Barbara
Michael Kallaanvaara	...	Tom McClane
Hans Wilhelmsson	...	Weld / Patient / Lunatic
Anders Ek	...	Janitor
Memory Garp	...	Office clerk
Christer Fant	...	Man in movie 'Tillbaka till Årjäng'
Odile Nunes	...	Woman in movie 'Tillbaka till Årjäng'
Ulf Landergren	...	Head of culture film department
Jenny Forslund	...	Editor, culture film department
Therese Malmer	...	Girl at Splatter & Gore Department / Sexy Patient

Storyline

Eddie Tor Swenson is a mild-mannered film editor with a wife, child, and a comfortable job editing art and drama films for a major studio. Following the suicide of their editor, heartless studio exec Sam Campbell transfers Ed to his department, the Splatter & Gore Department, to finish what the original editor was doing: editing the highly profitable but extremely violent Loose Limbs series of slashers. Sam allows Ed the use of his secluded country cottage so Ed can go about his work undisturbed, or so he thinks. The seclusion and the constant exposure to the violent nature and content of the films he's editing start to drive Ed insane. What begins as hallucinations leads to Ed's darker, murderous side emerging, and it puts the lives of everyone around him in danger: whether it be the film-buff studio warehouse man, or even Ed's family...

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Plot Keywords:

gore | insanity | censorship | injection | needle | 

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Taglines:

When His Mind Blows ... Anything Goes!

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sadistic violence and gore, language and some sexuality in a horror comedy

Details

Country:

Sweden

Language:

English Swedish

Release Date:

2 May 1997 (Sweden)

Also Known As:

Evil Ed Special EDition

Filming Locations:

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden

Box Office

Budget:

SEK250,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Action Film AB, Evil Ed Productions, Smart Egg Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

93 min 99 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sweden had until 1996 a policy about censor any movies that had any sex or violence scenes. Evil Ed was actually made as a protest against that policy.

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Goofs

Shadow of the camera can be seen on the wall when Edward is being brought into the ward.

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Quotes

Eddie: There is a scene in this movie were a girl get's raped by a beaver and is then shoot in the head with a bazooka.

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Crazy Credits

The characters and events in this motion picture are fictional, any similarity to actual persons living, dead, undead, living dead, re-animated or ressurrected is purely coincidel.

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Alternate Versions

The old german version was rated "not under 18" and had several cuts for violence (about 6 minutes). The new release is "not rated" and is full-uncut, even longer then the US un-rated version.

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Connections

Featured in Sleepwalker (2000)

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Soundtracks

Wait (For Our Love to Find Us)
Produced and arranged by Bag & Douglas Carr
Performed by Legacy of Sound
Executive producer Peter Swartling
Courtesy of Air Music Scandinavia/Copyright Control/Cheiron Songs 1995

User Reviews

Another brick in the horror wall

Man jus saw this movie and was it good? ooh yeah it was better.The story's quite simple we have this crazy movie guy who is told to edit European horror trash for dime a dozen, so our man Ed yeah that's' his name goes on editing these horror stuff until he becomes one such looney horror character and then the gorefest begins.Chessy dailogues,total blood mayhem,silly girls,lousy lookin monster yeah u got all the gore stuff right in there. So ye good men all I advice is to leave ur good brains behind for its time to be sic. Coming to the gore ratings i giveth 5 otta 5.And for all u guys out there looking for an intelligent movie this movie's surely aint for u.