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IMDb reviewers strikes again by the degrading quality of ratings movies. This movie is miles better than almost all critically acclaimed Western horrors in the last few years. Staying true to the Asian root, the movie explores the theme of curses and it's working. When a cursed is placed, two holes are created is the basic idea here i.e when you place a curse on someone, you get equally influenced by the curse because it links you and the one you cursed for eternity.

The plot is great with a very nice twist at the end. You end up not sympathising the protagonists at the end, but some might differ. Characters are complex unlike most Western horror (which are awfully full of shallow rehashed characters). The scares works as well, with lots of supernatural jumpscares mixed in with gore and torture images, although they are rather creepy than scary. The performance are decent. While the movie could've done better by filling in a plothole or two, it doesn't take away from the overall excitement of it. Highly recommend it, 9/10.

I've been intrigued by Thai Voodoo for the longest time, not that I would want to be on the receiving end of it, but it makes you wonder the amount of clout and (real?) ability of these medicine men who put hexes and curses on your behalf, for a small fee. And it always seem that what they do to you, from simple artifacts like a voodoo doll, can inflict so much pain onto your real self with just a simple needle poked on a right position on the straw doll......from DICK STEEL from Singapore

I loved this movie.... it was great. Very gory and unique. Started off a bit slow and than wham .... WTH ... lol Maybe you can help ...........I am wondering what the name of the Thai spellcasting (type of vodou) was.. I've heard of it before, even though it is rare and not well know... can anyone help?? I was actually able to find it before but had to re-do my pc and lost all info I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you ..... ..... . .. . . . .

This film essentially begins with a young high school student named "Ta" (Namo Tongkumnerd) having a serious problem with his stepmother "Aajaan Panor" (Napakpapha Nakprasitte) who physically and verbally abuses him at every opportunity. Although he doesn't disclose much to his friends, they all have a mutual problem with the high school coach who bullies them mercilessly. So, when a rumor begins that both Aajaan--who is a teacher at their high school--and the coach are having an affair, they decide to video the two of them in the act in order to turn the tables on them. What they don't count on is the coach becoming aware of their spying and in a fit of rage forcing them to watch as he sexually abuses one of the female students. Horrified at this turn of events--and fearful of their future safety--they visit a local practitioner of black magic who reluctantly puts a deadly curse upon him. Not long afterward, the coach dies an extremely gory and brutal death. At the same time, the video of him and Aajaan goes public which not only humiliates her but forces her to go into seclusion into the countryside. Eventually, time passes and two years later, all six of the high school students reunite and go to the countryside to visit Ta and his family. What they don't realize is that Aajaan has suspected at least one of them for releasing the video and has some powerful black magic of her own in store for them when they arrive. Now rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this movie had several good things going for it which includes some beautiful jungle scenery, decent horror for the most part and an extremely gorgeous actress in Napakpapha Nakprasitte. One obvious fault, however, was the extremely sophomoric English dubbing which would have been perfect for a cartoon--but definitely not for a horror film of this sort. To that extent, I would have much preferred listening to it in Thai and having barely passable English subtitles instead. It was really that bad. Again though, it did have some good qualities and--all things being equal--I have rated this film accordingly. Average.

In Art of the Devil 2, which is not a sequel in any traditional sense of the word, the Seven Ronin team of directors delve into another exploration of Thai witchcraft, which apparently shares little with its Western counterpart. In this movie, as in the first, the object is revenge, the tools are those of black magic, and the price is sanity. The witchcraft of these movies is messy, deadly, and the cost to the practitioner is as great as to the victim. Six students visit the remote home of a former teacher, who is also the stepmother of one of the youths. Death and blood follow as the young people learn that their actions, as a group and as individuals, have marked them for vengeance. Art of the Devil 2 is related to the first only by the theme of Thai curses, which are by far more imaginative than anything brought to the American screen. There are weaknesses, such as the quality of the translation track and the cheap effect, but the movie succeeds by imagining a world in which dangerous curses can kill from a distance, where witches can appear and disappear at will, in which the dead dance silently just out of sight of everyone but you, and in which the cost of revenge is the soul of the wronged. This is not gentle stuff; cannibalism, corpse mutilation and bloody rituals are abundant, but on the whole the picture succeeds in doing something not seen from American directors in many years.

Really didn't know what to expect having watched this after Art of the Devil which was rather mediocre. This one however was far better. It still had the black magic and curses like the first movie but this was a far superior product. It took me a little while to figure out what was going on but it all tied neatly together at the end with a pretty awesome plot twist at the end. And I've said it before but I'll say it again THAT is what makes the difference between a good scary movie and an average one 7.5/10