ART OF THE DEVIL 2 (Thailand – 2005)
Directed by: the Ronin Team
Starring: Napakapar Nakaprasit, Namo Tongkumnerd, Hataiwan Ngam Sukonpusit, Akarin Siwapornpitak, Korakot
“Panor is one cold-hearted bitch and her methodology, using her own set of rituals and black magic is not for the faint of heart. Without giving too much away let’s just whet your appetite with the mention of a little flesh eating, eye gouging and tooth pulling, and all that before she even reaches for her trusty blowtorch…”
- EatMyBrains.com
Forget every Japanese horror movie you’ve ever seen, full of dead, wet, grumpy girls with bad haircuts. ART OF THE DEVIL 2 (no familiarity with ART OF THE DEVIL 1 required) only owes a sideways debt of paternity to Takashi Miike’s torture/dating film, AUDITION. Otherwise this is a true, gruesome original.
A hit at the Thai box office, this slick, sick flick is all about teachers and students and black magic. Eye-searingly beautiful Ms. Panor, a teacher in the countryside, has six wonderful students. The wonderful students play a nasty prank on Ms. Panor and her reputation is ruined. Whoops. Then they all go away to college. When they return to their hometown years later they discover that Ms. Panor seems happy, and even more beautiful than before. What they don’t know is that Ms. Panor has spent a lot of time learning black magic and summoning demons. What they don’t know is that she is a good teacher who still has lots to teach them. She wants to teach them about pain. She wants them to learn about suffering. She wants to help them open their third eye with a power drill. Directed by a team of seven filmmakers known as the Ronin Team, ART OF THE DEVIL 2 will remind you of your special time in high school. That is, if you attended high school in hell.