FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL 2006

Art of the Devil 2 (Thailand, 2005)

This sequel has nothing to do with the original apparently. In up-town Thailand, a group of students decide to take revenge on a gym teacher who abused one of the students. They sollicit the help of a Cambodian witch doctor. He warns them, however, that whatever they do, karma will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Whatever bad you do, it will come back to you one way or another. In this case, everyone has a curse on everyone, and the fun begins when they are invited to their teachers house to spend some time with her. This teacher (see photo), who seems at first to be the nice and gentle, ends up killing the students in such a gruesome way that censors will have a hard time figuring out what scenes to cut. Lizzards come out of someone's back, one students gets burned alive with a fire torch provided by our dear teacher, hooks come out of the skin of another person, and terrifying ghosts appear at every corner to one of the students. This is clearly not for the faint of heart or stomach.