In the end it's a disappointment, feeling like a half-hearted attempt to emulate the classics of old. Such moments come few and far between however, and this is a case of style over substance. A guy vomits up eels in one unpleasant scene while the nastiest bit involves the rotting corpse of a baby being used in a ritual. The Devils Art: Divination and Discipline in Early Modern. Of course there are also moments of bad taste, as is the norm for this genre of production. I hope this is a resource that can connect people to scholarship of interest. There ARE some good gruesome bits, one involving the old joke with a victim having an evil presence under his skin, and his efforts to cut it out. UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS 2020 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. There's plenty of overacting – especially from the villainess - and little subtlety, aside from the actor playing the investigative reporter. Divination and Discipline in Early Modern Germany Jason P. The cast isn't particularly good for a film of this calibre.

It's also overlong, with the second half of the movie introducing an unbelievable plot twist as the villainess goes after more innocent folk – this time her lover's ex-wife! It's little more than an excuse for more gruesome deaths but the novelty quickly wears off. Buy The Devils Art: Divination and Discipline in Early Modern Germany (Studies in Early Modern German History) Illustrated by Jason Philip Coy (author) (ISBN: 9780813944074) from Amazons Book Store. This is a poorly edited film and the director doesn't seem to want to make the events that play out very clear. The problems lie in the technical details. However, while those films have gone down as gruesome classics of horror cinema, ART OF THE DEVIL is a somewhat lacklustre retelling of the same story. The plot is virtually the same, involving a jilted lover and her efforts to punish the man who abandoned her by resorting to black magic (the same plot was used in 1981's BEWITCHED). This is the Thai answer to all those black magic horror films made in Hong Kong during the 1970s and '80s.

The Devil's Art by Jason Philip Coy