Claudio Carvalho The former corrupt police officer and necromancer Itti (Chatchai Plengpanich) escapes from prison using black magic and Lieutenant Santi (Puthichai Amatayakul) is assigned to chase him. Santi feels the supernatural powers of Itti and becomes obsessed to capture him, but realizes that he needs to become a necromancer to face Itti.The premise of "Necromancer" is very interesting – a corrupt police officer that shifts to the dark side and an obstinate lieutenant that finds that only choosing the way of the shadows he will be able to destroy the criminal. However, the chaotic screenplay is completely disconnected and the cinematography is too much dark, making difficult to understand the story. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Necromancer"

rust37 Three cops from anti-sorcery department one day find that one of them (Itty) went too far with black magic. Having escaped from high-security prison Itty now looks for revenge being confronted by young police officer (Santi). Will occult powers bring any luck to those with good and bad intentions?What pleased me most about this movie is that creators relied more on imagery, rather than dialogs, surprising me with how little has been spoken having told so lot.As for the imagery itself it was full of style and sometimes stunning (in a way of Re-Cycle and Eye), being well infused with cultural motives (ceremonies, temple sequences) and genuine nuances (lunch scenes, hierarchical relations).I always praise the sense of proportion and Necromancer didn't disappoint me. No excessive gore, and effects were used right to the necessary. In fact, in this aspect it was quite an opposite to the Arts of Devil already mentioned here.In contrary to what have been written here the story wasn't confusing or demanding a deep Asian background, it was even not without some dramatic value (how far one can get with good intentions), and a good thought-provoking twist. Again nothing in common with the Arts of Devil, which was nothing more to me but an exotic Hostel-like slasher.Acting and obviously directing were strong, nothing to complain. Even soundtrack was pleasing all the way with a relevant new-age-like background.Making a decent horror movie about black magic is tricky by definition so I was eager to see the final stand. Surprisingly, although not without some minor reservations Necromancer passed even this test having delivered quite an impressive battle scene and not so easy to guess finale.So, although Necromancer doesn't offer anything new in horror-making and doesn't scare much it nevertheless delivers as a high-quality exotic thriller with some stunning imagery and involving story. It's well worth seeing.

supercd84 I went to my local DVD rental store and i saw this movie in the list.The description was intriguing. The police hunts a former police officer, able to use dark magic powers, that has escaped from prison in mysterious circumstances. I thought that mixing police and black magic was an unusual but interesting idea. Maybe it could be, but not in this movie.From the first second to the last the movie was a continued and foolish cut and paste of scenes that always seemed disconnected among them. When you expected that someone was going to explain to you what was happening the scene changes radically and you can only feel something like "What the heck is happening now?"The characters are badly introduced to the audience and it's impossible to understand why they are doing what they do. The only interesting character is Itti, the bad guy of the movie, but the attempts of explaining it's past are only confusing as is impossible to understand why he has his powers and why he is using them like that.This is an awful film and I suggest to avoid it if you can!

svlina This is also one of my favorite movie, Even the outlook of the movie were action, blood , horror For me, this is an strong emotional movie. 80% is fully emotion Filmnoir : Betrayal , Cruelty , The dark side of humans.. I like this type of movie,especially the delicacy of acting…. The puzzle were put not only on the 2 versions of the story at farmhouse in a lagoon but also hidden along at the beginning , the opening scene of Itti Itti ( let you seen his emotional eyes) he arrested and hitting the drug trafficker and scene of Santi when he came out to catch dead the bandits to hoard their talismans (the winner can take the loser's talisman and augment his own power, making him a more formidable opponent in the future)These 2 scenes are made of links. This behavior telling you that why they become the black magic masters.It's telling the past of Itti by the behavior of the recent young cop Santi be involved in the dark side of humans.. It 's like the replacement .Finally, the last scene Santi catch dead Itti by hitting like the way Itti was hit the bandits in the past as you seen at the beginning scene ( it's like the circle of fate). This is the final fate that Itti was suffered before he die.So Itti and Santi are like the same person. They use the black magic to achieve their passion and destroy the human's life with the position of cup. Killed /catch dead bandits to hoard their talisman. In this movie ,the necromancer cop purpose to be use the magic power to protect them self and catch criminals. But they use it to destroy and achieve their passion instead.This story to proceed as the circle of fate. Final destination their will face up the fearsome, sorrow suffering according to the bad things they have been done. Since this is not the action movie, the whole story is quite deeply emotional. So the real look itself is quite slow. the scenes given the feeling. If you 're the Action fan flick, you may not like this one. If you like the emotional flick, when you find out the links and you feel the emotion, you will understand the story.