ART OF THE DEVIL 2 (Thailand, 2005)
US Premiere
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100 minutes, 35mm, in Thai with English subtitles |
Showtimes: June 17, 10:00pm at the Anthology [Buy Tickets]; June 19, 8:45pm at the Anthology [Buy Tickets]. |
| Forget every Japanese horror movie you've ever seen, full of dead, wet, grumpy girls with too much hair. 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. |


"Those looking to satisfy their craving for Asian extreme cinema will find relief in Art of the Devil 2 (2005) ... gore-soaked Thai horror flick that proves you should never eat anything you haven't cooked yourself. (Oops, is that a blue lacquered fingernail in my soup?)" 
