Phuean Hian.. Rongrian Lon

"ThirTEEN Terrors" is a drama I had mild interest in. I'm not a big drama/show fan, in all honesty, so for one to peek my interest is... rare. So I decided to give it a go as my first Thai drama and for a watch challenge I'm participating in.

It's hard to fully summarise this as it is a compilation piece with each episode following a different story line but I'll do my best.

Story wise, all but one of these stories captured my attention, made me shiver or grimace, and one or two even made me jump. Bar episode 4, I'd love to see full-length films on all of these stories and follow them in even more depth and detail (probably a bad idea for some of these, 45 minutes definitely suited a lot of these) but it does make me wonder what the directors and writers could do with a longer time frame to play around with. Acting, some of the kids weren't amazing in some of their roles. Most did a very good job but one or two let the series down further on and it was a bit unfortunate. I would happily watch 98% of the cast in their other works and it is something I am considering.

Thankfully, in the stories that I didn't like, the acting was stellar, and the ones where I didn't like the acting, the story/horror was well done and I still enjoyed them, mostly.

Overall, I'd recommend this to both horror and non-horror fans alike. Whereas they're scary, they're not scary enough that someone who's easily scared or hasn't had much interaction with the genre would be absolutely terrified. A solid horror favourite of mine, I definitely want to rewatch this in the future when I've forgotten the plot twists.

Every episode is different story some are so scary you can not watch alone. Thailand Flim Industry is very good in making horror content.

If it's something you think you might like, I think you will.

Thirteen Terrors is a series of horror stories whose only connection is that the protagonists are teenagers. Is it aimed at teenagers? Kind of-- none of the stories are particularly deep or sophisticated, and most are pretty simple morality tales where the protagonist gets punished for some ethical lapse. But it's not really PG-13 either, at least not in the American sense; some of these stories are pretty gruesome, and TT has no qualms with showing the fallout from, say, a back alley abortion gone wrong.

Pacing is relatively good-- the stories could stand to be 10% shorter, maybe. There are jump scares, but not left and right. Some might consider the soundtrack overwrought, but I think it works well here.

Most of the stories are varieties of good person does something vaguely wrong and gets haunted for it. In keeping with SE Asian horror, there are few happy endings. Stories aren't brilliant originals, but neither are they tired retreads. Acting is good. Budget is a bit on the low side, and it sometimes feels a little '80s/'90s, but as with the soundtrack, I think that's something that works in TT's favor here.

If I haven't turned you off with my faint praise, you haven't anything against Asian horror/subtitles, and you've already watched the great horror movies, you could definitely do a lot worse. TT is fun and does what it says on the tin.

Some of the story kinda creepy and some of them just ok.. Overall it's a good series to kill the time.