Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Graphic
- grim
- darkly comic
- disturbing
- late night horror
- genre movie night
What critics said
Critics broadly found a sleek, darkly comic and intermittently tense psychological horror thriller whose familiar moral-game premise loses force through tonal unevenness and derivative execution.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Elliot accepts a sequence of thirteen increasingly aggressive challenges, with each completed task unlocking more money and greater danger.
Elliot's unemployment, debts, impending marriage, and responsibility for Michael motivate his progression from seemingly harmless acts to brutal crimes.
The film combines offensive, gruesome challenges with dark humor, including the early fly-eating task and the spectacle of Elliot's public degradation.
The anonymous game exploits Elliot's economic vulnerability and tests how readily financial reward can erode his carefully maintained self-image.
Films like 13 Sins, and why
13 Beloved
Shares a morality-driven survival game, escalating brutal challenges, psychological pressure, and dark social commentary.
Saw
Shares sadistic task-based suspense, coercive moral dilemmas, graphic violence, and a bleak critique of human behavior.
Cheap Thrills
Shares desperate protagonists lured into escalating criminal challenges for money, with grim humor and social satire.
The Game
Shares an ordinary person trapped by an anonymous force in an escalating psychological thriller involving blackmail and moral compromise.
Movie Details
- Director
- Daniel Stamm
- Release Date
- 2014-04-11
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rating
- 6.3 / 10 (1245)
Cast
- Mark Webber
- Devon Graye
- Tom Bower
- Ron Perlman
- Rutina Wesley
- Pruitt Taylor Vince
- Clyde Jones
- Deneen Tyler
- Tom Lawson Jr.
- Sharon Smith
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is 13 Sins about?
- A financially desperate New Orleans salesman enters a mysterious thirteen-task game whose easy money steadily transforms survival into monstrous moral compromise.
- What is 13 Sins like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of 13 Sins as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is 13 Sins violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in 13 Sins as graphic.
- What did critics think of 13 Sins?
- Critics broadly found a sleek, darkly comic and intermittently tense psychological horror thriller whose familiar moral-game premise loses force through tonal unevenness and derivative execution.
- Which films are like 13 Sins?
- Films with a similar feel include 13 Beloved, Saw, Cheap Thrills, and The Game.
- How long is 13 Sins?
- 13 Sins runs 93 minutes.
- Where can I watch 13 Sins?
- In United States, 13 Sins streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel.
