13 sins
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | 13 sins |
| Original title | 13 sins |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Daniel Stamm |
| script |
David Birch , Daniel Stamm |
| production |
Charles Auty , Brian Kavanaugh-Jones , Kiki Miyake , Steven Squillante , Leslie Wise |
| music | Michael Wandmacher |
| camera | Zoltan Honti |
| cut | Shilpa Sahi |
| occupation | |
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13 Sins is an American horror - thriller by German director Daniel Stamm from 2014 with Mark Webber , Devon Graye and Rutina Wesley in the lead roles. It is a remake of the 2006 Thai film 13 Game Of Death by Chookiat Sakveerakul .
action
Things are not going well for Elliot Brindle: Instead of a hoped-for promotion, he loses his job as a salesman. In the medium term he will not be able to pay for the outpatient treatment of his mentally handicapped brother Michael. He fears having to go back to a hated home. But that's not all: his widowed father reveals to him that his apartment will shortly be evicted . He therefore wants to move in with Elliot - knowing full well that his racist attitude will inevitably lead to conflicts with Elliot's Afro-American fiancé Shelby. Elliot is pregnant and they both want to get married shortly.
On the way home, Elliot stops at a red light. Nobody is in sight when his mobile phone rings. A mysterious caller offers him $ 1000 for killing a fly that is instantly flying around him in the vehicle. Elliot is initially skeptical, but then kills the fly and immediately afterwards receives a text message from his bank confirming a successful transaction in his favor. When I get home, the mobile phone rings again. Now he is supposed to eat the fly, whereupon his credit card would be balanced. Elliot eats the insect and receives a message that an amount has been credited this time too, but well in excess of $ 3,000.
The next time he calls, he learns that he has been selected for a special game. It contains 13 challenges, each of which has a steadily increasing reward. If he fulfilled all 13 tasks, so the caller, he would be very rich, even a millionaire, in a short time. But if he tells even one person about the game, or tries to interfere in the game, he loses everything. Elliot agrees. In the next few hours, Elliot masters numerous tasks that are morally increasingly reprehensible and costly. First he makes a child cry, steals and sets a Christmas crib on fire and breaks into an apartment. There he finds the corpse of a suicide, which he is supposed to publicly place in front of a cup of coffee in a café and display. Now the police are also becoming aware of him; Detective Chilcoat is taking the matter. His fiancée Shelby noticed only marginally of all this. Elliot explains to her that he is planning a surprise for the upcoming wedding. Then he says goodbye to her and gets on a bus provided for him. A driver disguised as a clown takes Elliot to a lonely motel. A man, initially unknown to him, is sitting in a room. During the conversation it turns out that Elliot was bullied by him and his brother during school days . A nurse arrives and Elliot is asked by cell phone to cut off his right forearm. When the man even asks, Elliot realizes he's playing the game too. After the amputation , he takes the man to a hospital and meets his brother there. He knocks him down and learns that he has just successfully completed two tasks.
Elliot returns to Shelby, who has arranged a rehearsal dinner in a banquet room as part of her wedding preparations. The caller asks him to sing Die Internationale and destroy the facility in the process. At that moment the police enter the room, but - to Elliot's astonishment - interested in Michael. He helps him to escape by distraction by performing the task assigned. When he then flees from the police hall, the caller asks him to come back and be arrested. He comes into police custody and is interrogated by Chilcoat's boss. He confronts Elliot about his suspicions of playing the game and wants to hear details from him. But Elliot denies everything, overwhelms him and loses his mobile phone while escaping from the station. He takes an elderly woman hostage, although she initially seems uninvolved. She asks him to stretch a clothesline made of strong wire. Elliot realizes that the old lady wants to behead a group of motorcyclists and is also part of the game. At the last moment he was able to prevent the attack. Then a person appears in the dark, tensioning another rope. The group members have no idea of this, but are also part of the game - albeit only at the beginning of their task: They should receive money when they return to the motorcycle race. Elliot cannot prevent them from being beheaded from the taut line in time. This massacre finally makes Elliot want to quit the game.
Elliot returns to his father and meets Michael there too. Now it becomes clear that Michael is also a player. The final task is to kill a family member. Michael, who has always felt like a loser in his life so far, is willing to kill his father. But this reveals to the two brothers why they grew up without a mother: At the time, he also played the game and killed his own wife. Afterwards he was financially rich, but emotionally impoverished. In order to spare his sons this and to spoil a victory, he unceremoniously kills himself in front of their eyes. Now only Michael and Elliot are left - both face their last task, but Elliot tries to convince his brother to quit the game. Michael, confident of victory, does not want to know anything about it and goes after Elliot. He injures him several times, but is ultimately overwhelmed by Elliot and killed in self-defense . The last task is done and Elliot receives the message that he has won the game. As he leaves the house, Detective Chilcoat appears and destroys all evidence - he's part of the game too. Elliot returns, spots the policeman and shoots him. However, with this he interfered in the game and he loses his entire million-dollar profit. Still relieved, he calls Shelby at home. She tells him about a strange phone call that asked her to eat a fly. At first Elliot panics - but his wife simply rejected the caller and disposed of the fly in disgust.
background
The film was on 9 October 2012 to November 9, 2012 in New Orleans in the state of Louisiana rotated.
13 Sins premiered on March 7, 2014 at the South by Southwest Film Festival. The DVD and Blu-ray were presented to the public on June 17, 2014. In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on August 27, 2014 at the Fantasy Film Festival .
reception
On the online portal Filmstarts , the film received 2.8 out of 5 possible points in the press review category and 3.3 out of 5 possible points from users (as of February 2018). This corresponds to the rating of the online community Moviepilot , which awarded 6.1 out of 10 possible points (as of February 2018).
The film service thinks the film is a "shrewd-macabre, in some passages bloody social thriller in the tradition of David Fincher's The Game and Tom Toelle's television classic Das Millionenspiel ". He also praised the production, which could come up "with a small budget, but with credible actors and a very effective feel for turning the tension screw".
Mark Webber was nominated for Best Actor for the Fright Meter Award in 2014. In the same year, Stamm was nominated for the audience award at the South by Southwest film festival and a year later for the iHorror Award.
Web links
- 13 Sins in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 13 Sins at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for 13 sins . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 036 V).
- ↑ 13 Sins - short review . In: Filmdienst.de . Retrieved February 14, 2018.