Art of the Devil 3

Starring: Napakpapah Nakprasit, Suppakorn Kitsuwan
Director: Ronin Team
Studio: Tokyo Shock
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release: August 4th 2009

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Panor, a seductive rural teacher, longs to live a normal, peaceful life like everyone else in her village. But her beauty becomes her biggest curse as she becomes the object of desire from every man that enters her life. Male colleagues and students alike resort to a variety of black arts and love potions in an attempt to win her favor. To counter their endless menace, Panor herself must turn to witchcraft to combat her supernaturally charged suitors.

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Sick, depraved and solely for shock value - Rating: 3/5

Art of the Devil 3 (or Long Khong 2 in Thailand) arrives with a weaker story than its predecessor, AOTD2 (LK1). Basically, there's a cheating husband, a vengeful wife, and an equally vengeful spirit ghost who desires revenge after too much dabbling in the black arts. In the end, there's something of a morality tale (the good character lives because he is innocent and pure, a common theme in Thai horror).

It's all an excuse to show buckets upon buckets of blood, gore, intestines, bones, whatever the filmmakers can do to top the previous death scene. It's disappointing in that Long Khong 1 had a pretty good story, a creepy setting AND gore that was extreme, but not unwatchably extreme. This film had everyone in the theater breathing a sigh of relief after it was all over; easily the most gory film I've ever seen. More than Hostel. Way more than Saw.

What's unfortunate is the film's first half seems to set up a plot that would result in interesting character developments that might have created some interesting drama, which would be rare for a horror film. Instead, the story gets lost once the torture starts happening. Highly recommended for gore hounds, but for those wanting more scares in their horror there is no suspense at all in this one, just lots of body parts ripped to pieces.

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