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''13 Sins'', also known as ''13: Game of Death'' is a 2014 [[HorrorFilms Horror film]] starring Mark Webber and Creator/RonPerlman, a [[ForeignRemake remake]] of a 2006 Thai film, ''13 Beloved''. Elliot Brindle is an extremely passive man with a pregnant fiancee, a mentally handicapped brother, and a dead end job. Shortly after he's fired from his insurance sales job, he receives a mysterious phone call with a ringtone of ''[[StandardSnippet Entrance of the Gladiators]]''. The man on the line tells him that he's part of a new and exciting game show, and he can win $1000 by killing the fly in his car. He's then offered more money to eat the fly. And then he gets more challenges, each worse than the last, with him only getting the fortune if he completes all 13. Soon, he's too far in to get back out, having committed several crimes, and he learns that there's another competitor, and only one of them can win...
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Mark Webber stars as Elliot
It premiered at the 2014 SXSW film festival and was released theatrically in the United States on April 18, 2014. This was the final film appearance of George Coe before his death in 2015.
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''13 Sins'', also known as ''13: Game of Death'' is a 2014 [[HorrorFilms Horror film]] starring Mark Webber and Creator/RonPerlman, a [[ForeignRemake remake]] of a 2006 Thai film, ''13 Beloved''. Elliot Brindle is an extremely passive man with a pregnant fiancee, a mentally handicapped brother, and a dead end job. Shortly after he's fired from his insurance sales job, he receives a mysterious phone call with a ringtone of ''[[StandardSnippet Entrance of the Gladiators]]''. The man on the line tells him that he's part of a new and exciting game show, and he can win $1000 by killing the fly in his car. He's then offered more money to eat the fly. And then he gets more challenges, each worse than the last, with him only getting the fortune if he completes all 13. Soon, he's too far in to get back out, having committed several crimes, and he learns that there's another competitor competitor, and only one of them can win...
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* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Elliot repeatedly smashes a chair over Witter's brother's head in the hospital before he even relaizes it's one of the challenges.
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* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Elliot repeatedly smashes a chair over Witter's brother's head in the hospital before he even relaizes realizes it's one of the challenges.
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* AGodAmI: The conspiracy theorist believes that this is the motivation behind the Game. They want to turn people into monsters to show how powerful they are. It's not even HumansAreBastards mentality they are actually praising Elliot's actions and punish him when he tries to make them more justified.
* JustFollowingOrders: The Game clean up guy says that it is his job and killing him will just make Elliot lose everything.[[spoiler: But to Elliot Chilcoat is here and it's all that matters to him.]]
* TheMole: It's implied that a large number of people are involved in the game, including people high up in authority. [[spoiler:Chilcoat]] seems to be a reasonable authority figure, trying to figure out the game. [[spoiler:He's their cleanup guy]].
* JustFollowingOrders: The Game clean up guy says that it is his job and killing him will just make Elliot lose everything.[[spoiler: But to Elliot Chilcoat is here and it's all that matters to him.]]
* TheMole: It's implied that a large number of people are involved in the game, including people high up in authority. [[spoiler:Chilcoat]] seems to be a reasonable authority figure, trying to figure out the game. [[spoiler:He's their cleanup guy]].
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* AGodAmI: The conspiracy theorist believes that this is the motivation behind the Game. They want to turn people into monsters to show how powerful they are. It's not even a HumansAreBastards mentality mentality; they are actually praising reward Elliot's actions malicious acts with praise and money, and punish him when he tries to make them more justified.
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* JustFollowingOrders: TheGame clean up guy Game's cleaner says that it is he's just doing his job and killing a nobody like him will just make Elliot lose everything.[[spoiler: But everything. [[spoiler:But to Elliot Chilcoat Elliot, at least one of the game's perpetrators is here here, and it's all that matters to him.]]
* TheMole: It's implied that a large number of people are involved in thegame, Game, including people high up in authority. [[spoiler:Chilcoat]] seems to be a reasonable authority figure, trying to figure out the game. [[spoiler:He's their cleanup guy]].game, but they're actually [[spoiler:a cleaner for the Games]].
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* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: The underground game show. Elliot and other contestants start off doing relatively harmless but malicious acts for huge sums of money, only for the acts to increase in depravity until they include mass-murder and familicide. [[spoiler:Elliot manages to draw the line at murdering innocents, but willingly participates in vigilante murder of other contestants and the game's workers.]]
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''13 Sins'', also known as ''13: Game of Death'' is a 2014 [[HorrorFilms Horror film]], a [[ForeignRemake remake]] of a 2006 Thai film, ''13 Beloved''. Elliot Brindle is an extremely passive man with a pregnant fiancee, a mentally handicapped brother, and a dead end job. Shortly after he's fired from his insurance sales job, he receives a mysterious phone call with a ringtone of ''[[StandardSnippet Entrance of the Gladiators]]''. The man on the line tells him that he's part of a new and exciting game show, and he can win $1000 by killing the fly in his car. He's then offered more money to eat the fly. And then he gets more challenges, each worse than the last, with him only getting the fortune if he completes all 13. Soon, he's too far in to get back out, having committed several crimes, and he learns that there's another competitor and only one of them can win...
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''13 Sins'', also known as ''13: Game of Death'' is a 2014 [[HorrorFilms Horror film]], film]] starring Mark Webber and Creator/RonPerlman, a [[ForeignRemake remake]] of a 2006 Thai film, ''13 Beloved''. Elliot Brindle is an extremely passive man with a pregnant fiancee, a mentally handicapped brother, and a dead end job. Shortly after he's fired from his insurance sales job, he receives a mysterious phone call with a ringtone of ''[[StandardSnippet Entrance of the Gladiators]]''. The man on the line tells him that he's part of a new and exciting game show, and he can win $1000 by killing the fly in his car. He's then offered more money to eat the fly. And then he gets more challenges, each worse than the last, with him only getting the fortune if he completes all 13. Soon, he's too far in to get back out, having committed several crimes, and he learns that there's another competitor and only one of them can win...
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* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: Jon Witter and his brother used to pick on Elliot during middle school, including dangling him out the computer lab window. Neither of them has improved in attitude when he meets them as adults. [[spoiler:Elliot [[AnArnAndALeg cuts the arm]] off one of them and [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl smashes a chair]] over the head of the other.]]
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* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: Jon Witter and his brother used to pick on Elliot during middle school, including dangling him out the computer lab window. Neither of them has improved in attitude when he meets them as adults. [[spoiler:Elliot [[AnArnAndALeg [[AnArmAndALeg cuts the arm]] off one of them and [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl smashes a chair]] over the head of the other.]]
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* StopOrIShootMyself: While wrecking the rehearsal dinner, Elliot keeps the security guards at bay by holding a serving fork to his own throat and threatening to stab himself.
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* ShootHimHeHasAWallet: Professor Solomon, having just hacked a woman's finger off, is shoot by a security guard when he reaches into his jacket for his phone.
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* CantTieHisTie: Shelby ties Elliot's tie for him when he goes in for an interview with his boss that he thinks is going to result in a promotion.
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* WeddingSmashers: Avoided. It's [[spoiler:the rehearsal dinner]] where all of the carnage happens.
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* WhiteMaskOfDoom: The bus that transports Elliot to the motel is driven by a mysterious clown wearing a featureless white mask.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: The bus that transports Elliot to the motel is driven by a mysterious clown wearing a featureless white mask.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Elliot is one at the start of the movie, being completely subservient to the needs of his father, his brother and his boss.
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* SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp: Jon Witter and his brother used to pick on Elliot during middle school, including dangling him out the computer lab window. Neither of them has improved in attitude when he meets them as adults. [[spoiler:Elliot [[AnArnAndALeg cuts the arm]] off one of them and [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl smashes a chair]] over the head of the other.]]
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* OffWithHisHead: A group of motorcyclists are decapitated ([[AnArmAndALeg and lose limbs]]) to a RazorFloss steel cable stretched across the road.
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* AnArmAndALeg: One of Elliot's challenges is to amputate the arm of his SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp. [[spoiler:He does.]]
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Elliot repeatedly smashes a chair over Witter's brother's head in the hospital before he even relaizes it's one of the challenges.
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: Elliot repeatedly smashes a chair over Witter's brother's head in the hospital before he even relaizes it's one of the challenges.
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* ExcrementStatement: Elliot's challenge to wreck the rehearsal dinner includes the stipulation that he has to urinate into one of the table centerpieces.
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* RoadsideSurgery: One of Elliot's challenges involves him amputating the arm of a former classmate in a seedy motel.
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* AGodAmI: The conspiracy theorist believes that this is the motivation behind the Game. They want to turn people into monsters to show how powerful they are. It's not even HumansAreBastards mentality they are actually praising Elliot's actions and punish him when he tries to make them more justified.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Vogler has been tracking the history of the Game for years, and believes that it is an entertainment for the super-rich, and has been running since Ancient Greece. [[spoiler:The ending indicates he may be right.]]
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* StringTheory: Vogler, the ConspiracyTheorist, has a chart in his RV where he uses string to map out the history of the Game.
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* SuperWindowJump: Averted. Elliot actually throws a chair through the window of the police station to smash out the glass before jumping.
* TrashLanding: Subverted. Elliot jumps out of the window of the police station, aiming for a dumpster in the alley. However, he misses the open half of the dumpster, and bounces off the lid on the closed side.
* TrashLanding: Subverted. Elliot jumps out of the window of the police station, aiming for a dumpster in the alley. However, he misses the open half of the dumpster, and bounces off the lid on the closed side.
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* ShootHimHeHasAWallet: Professor Solomon, having just hacked a woman's finger off, is shoot by a security guard when he reaches into his jacket for his phone.
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* {{Fingore}}: In the opening scene, Professor Solomon hacks the finger off the hostess of his testimonial dinner with a steak knife.
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''13 Sins'', also known as ''13: Game of Death'' is a 2014 [[HorrorFilms Horror film]], a [[ForeignRemake remake]] of a 2006 Thai film, ''13 Beloved''. Elliot Brindle is an extremely passive man with a pregnant fiancee, a mentally retarded handicapped brother, and a dead end job. Shortly after he's fired from his insurance sales job, he receives a mysterious phone call with a ringtone of ''[[StandardSnippet Entrance of the Gladiators]]''. The man on the line tells him that he's part of a new and exciting game show, and he can win $1000 by killing the fly in his car. He's then offered more money to eat the fly. And then he gets more challenges, each worse than the last, with him only getting the fortune if he completes all 13. Soon, he's too far in to get back out, having committed several crimes, and he learns that there's another competitor and only one of them can win...
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* RazorFloss: One of the challenges involves a metal fire strung across a busy road where some motorcyclists are bribed to drive through at high speed, leading to them [[OffWithHisHead losing their heads over it]].
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* RazorFloss: One of the challenges involves a metal fire wire strung across a busy road where some motorcyclists are bribed to drive through at high speed, leading to them [[OffWithHisHead losing their heads over it]].
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* EatThat: It seems the standard second challenge, after the person has killed the fly, is to have them eat it. Sometime the fly is a dog if the theorist's story about his wife s true.
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* EatThat: It seems the standard second challenge, after the person has killed the fly, is to have them eat it. Sometime the fly is a dog if the theorist's story about his wife s is true.
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* AGodAmI: The conspiracy theorist believes that this is the motivation behind the Game. They want to turn people into monsters to show how powerful they are. It's not even HumanAreBastards HumansAreBastards mentality they are actually praising Elliot's actions and punish him when he tries to make them more justified.
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* AGodAmI: The conspiracy theorist believes that this is the motivation behind the Game. They want to turn people into monsters to show how powerful they are. It's not even HumanAreBastards mentality they are actually praising Elliot's actions and punish him when he tries to make them more justified.
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* JustFollowingOrders: The Game clean up guy says that it is his job and killing him will just make Elliot lose everything.[[spoiler: But to Elliot Chilcoat is here and it's all that matters to him.]]
* JustFollowingOrders: The Game clean up guy says that it is his job and killing him will just make Elliot lose everything.[[spoiler: But to Elliot Chilcoat is here and it's all that matters to him.]]
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* CruelTwistEnding: [[spoiler:Subverted! At the end it turns out Elliot's wife got challenged as well, but she declined to eat the fly and threw it away. The movie ends with Elliot sporting a relieved smile in response to this.]]
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler:For the last challenge, Elliot finds out his brother Michael is the second contestant and their father played the game years before, killing their mother in order to pass his 13th challenge. Elliot takes this about as well as you'd expect.]]
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''13 Sins'', also known as ''13: Game of Death'' is a 2014 [[HorrorFilms Horror film]], a remake of a 2006 Thai film, ''13 Beloved''. Elliot Brindle is an extremely passive man with a pregnant fiancee, a mentally retarded brother, and a dead end job. Shortly after he's fired from his insurance sales job, he receives a mysterious phone call with a ringtone of ''[[StandardSnippet Entrance of the Gladiators]]''. The man on the line tells him that he's part of a new and exciting game show, and he can win $1000 by killing the fly in his car. He's then offered more money to eat the fly. And then he gets more challenges, each worse than the last, with him only getting the fortune if he completes all 13. Soon, he's too far in to get back out, having committed several crimes, and he learns that there's another competitor and only one of them can win...
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''13 Sins'', also known as ''13: Game of Death'' is a 2014 [[HorrorFilms Horror film]], a remake [[ForeignRemake remake]] of a 2006 Thai film, ''13 Beloved''. Elliot Brindle is an extremely passive man with a pregnant fiancee, a mentally retarded brother, and a dead end job. Shortly after he's fired from his insurance sales job, he receives a mysterious phone call with a ringtone of ''[[StandardSnippet Entrance of the Gladiators]]''. The man on the line tells him that he's part of a new and exciting game show, and he can win $1000 by killing the fly in his car. He's then offered more money to eat the fly. And then he gets more challenges, each worse than the last, with him only getting the fortune if he completes all 13. Soon, he's too far in to get back out, having committed several crimes, and he learns that there's another competitor and only one of them can win...
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[[caption-width-right:220:Thirteen tasks. Six million dollars. What would you do?]]
[[caption-width-right:220:Thirteen tasks. Six million dollars. What would you do?]]
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* AncientConspiracy: The conspiracy theorist's notes imply that The Game has been run since Ancient Greece.
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* RazorFloss: One of the challenges involves a metal fire strung across a busy road where some motorcyclists are bribed to drive through at high speed, leading to them [[OffWithHisHead losing their heads over it]].
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!!This film exhibits the following:
* DeadlyGame: The game starts with innocuous, if disgusting challenges. It moves to [[spoiler:indirect murder]], then requires [[spoiler:killing a family member]].
* EatThat: It seems the standard second challenge, after the person has killed the fly, is to have them eat it.
* TheMole: It's implied that a large number of people are involved in the game, including people high up in authority. [[spoiler:Chilcoat]] seems to be a reasonable authority figure, trying to figure out the game. [[spoiler:He's their cleanup guy]].
* OfCorpseHesAlive: At one point, Elliot is charged to take a man out to coffee. The man is dead before Elliot even gets there, necessitating the trope.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Some of the things Elliot is asked to do are extremely ridiculous. Others are horrific.
* StandardSnippet: Elliot's phone [[spoiler:and that of anyone involved in the game]] plays "Entrance of the Gladiators" when the organizers of the game call him.
* SunkCostFallacy: Played with. Elliot thinks that quitting will lose him all of the money. [[spoiler:A conspiracy theorist who's been tracking the game says that people who quit early get killed off, so it's not actually an example if that's true]].
!!This film exhibits the following:
* DeadlyGame: The game starts with innocuous, if disgusting challenges. It moves to [[spoiler:indirect murder]], then requires [[spoiler:killing a family member]].
* EatThat: It seems the standard second challenge, after the person has killed the fly, is to have them eat it.
* TheMole: It's implied that a large number of people are involved in the game, including people high up in authority. [[spoiler:Chilcoat]] seems to be a reasonable authority figure, trying to figure out the game. [[spoiler:He's their cleanup guy]].
* OfCorpseHesAlive: At one point, Elliot is charged to take a man out to coffee. The man is dead before Elliot even gets there, necessitating the trope.
* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: Some of the things Elliot is asked to do are extremely ridiculous. Others are horrific.
* StandardSnippet: Elliot's phone [[spoiler:and that of anyone involved in the game]] plays "Entrance of the Gladiators" when the organizers of the game call him.
* SunkCostFallacy: Played with. Elliot thinks that quitting will lose him all of the money. [[spoiler:A conspiracy theorist who's been tracking the game says that people who quit early get killed off, so it's not actually an example if that's true]].
