Saturday, March 14, 2009

13 BELOVED


13 Beloved (a.k.a. 13: Game of Death) is a 2006 Thai psychological thriller with black comedy elements directed by Chukiat Sakveerakul and starring Krissada Sukosol Clapp.

Chit (Krissada Sukosol Clapp) is having some serious problems with his job, his car, his debts are growing, and it seems that he has recently broke up with his girlfriend.
Soon after it seems that nothing could be worse, Chit receives a mysterious phone call on his cellphone inviting him to take part in a supposedly underground game that promises to help him solve all his financial problems if he manage to get to the end of the game. In order to succeed in its game and win the millionaire prize, Chit will have to accomplish thirteen tasks that are designed specifically for him and that would push him to the edge of sanity. The game starts out innocently enough to make Chit think that it is going to be very easy to win; however, it rapidly progresses into more and more life-or-death situations.

Chit's 13 tasks:
  1. Kill a fly.
  2. Swallow the fly.
  3. Make three children cry.
  4. Beat up a beggar and take his money.
  5. Eat a plate of feces.
  6. Give his mobile phone to a mentally unstable man at a bus stop and then take another mobile phone from a gang of youths on a bus.
  7. Retrieve a dead body from a well.
  8. Beat up ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend with a chair.
  9. Find an old woman in a hospital and escort her from the building while evading police.
  10. String up a wire clothesline across a highway, which eventually decapitates several motorcyclists.
  11. Kill his former co-worker or her dog.
  12. Slaughter cattle and find a key in their intestines.
  13. Kill John Adams (a hooded man in a wheelchair).

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