ma-cortes Jacobo (Juan Diego )is a young sculptor that goes back to Santiago of Compostela, to see his mummy (Elvira Minguez), locked up a psychiatric hospital for to murder to her husband named Mateo (Luis Tosar), when he thought she dead years ago . To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father several years ago, begin to chase to him, especially, when thirteen peals sounded in the cathedral, fact what obsesses to Jacobo . Fatigued of insomnia receives estrange and indecipherable visions that seem a bizarre riddle and going on with odds events are happening when he aware the true intentions of the ghost of his father. He hasn't slept and suffers hallucinations , risking his own life causing injuries by hanging . Psychopathic, haunting visions by Jacobo and his madness embroils two women ,a beautiful young ( Marta Etura ) who falls in love with him , and an art gallery owner (Laura Maña) increasingly besides with apparition his father a who nobody have ever seen . He tries to resolve which believes to be a scheme against him and various mysterious deeds occur until the final enigma . After watching long time, the father convinces Jacobo to make the work for the cathedral that Mateo couldn't terminate in life, but what starts as a simple job turns a nightmare .The film contains mystery, violence, suspense in a dark atmosphere with imposing tension and intrigue. Juan Diego who holds a strong Argentinian accent makes a fine performance as depressed young who returns his native town that leads a madness spiral. He is well accompanied by gloomy characters as Luis Tosar as reappeared father .The film is well shot in Santiago De Compostela , showing spectacularly the monuments, streets and the breathtaking cathedral . Colorful cinematography by Javier Salmones is good , creating a frightening and scary atmosphere . Mesmerizing and intriguing musical score by Javier Navarrete. The flick is finely produced by the chairman of Filmax Productions , Julio Fernandez , a successful producer and expert on terror genre , producer of hits as ¨The machinist¨, ¨Rec 1, y 2¨ ,¨ Fragiles¨, ¨Darkness¨, and many others . The motion picture is middling realized by Galician director Xavier Villaverde , because resulting to be slow moving and little bit boring , it's his third film , formerly he directed ¨Continental¨ and ¨Finisterre¨ . The picture was a box office flop being the filmmaker's last work . Rating : Average .

Claudio Carvalho In 1984, in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, the boy Jacobo witnesses his mother killing his father, the artist Mateo (Luis Tosar), with a shotgun when the local cathedral sounded thirteen tolls. Eighteen years later, the also artist Jacobo (Juan Diego Botto) returns to his hometown from Buenos Aires answering the call of his childhood friend Maria (Marta Etura) to visit his schizophrenic mother that has been sentenced to a psychiatric hospital for killing her husband. Jacobo believed his mother had died years ago, and he is under medication due to frequent clangs of bell that he hears. Jacobo is advised by his mother to leave the town, and sooner he is haunted by Mateo that wants him to finish his work for the local cathedral."Trece Campanadas" is an underrated psychological / supernatural thriller. The story is well constructed and resolved in spite of I have partially guessed the mystery in the middle of the movie; therefore, the director Xavier Villaverde and the writers have successfully accomplished their objective of making a good movie. The unknown (at least for me) Juan Diego Botto and Marta Etura have great performances and show a perfect chemistry and Luis Tosar gives another efficient work. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "13 Badaladas" ("13 Tolls")

tonyp3101 Does anyone have any idea why this was rated nc-17? I saw nothing that would put it anywhere close to a "hard R", much less a more adult rating. Once again, the ratings board throws a curve to anyone interested in movies with more controversial/graphic/racy content, as this one shows none of that at all. Could it be that it was edited out after the nc-17 was awarded? If so, this makes no sense---why would you release the movie as an unrated edition and cleave out the content that made it an nc-17? A question better plied to the distributors, perhaps... Despite my questions, I really enjoyed the movie. Not a totally novel premise, but well produced and acted.Also--IMDb needs to fix their software, typing nc-17 in all caps is correct, not shouting!

niz This tale of a young sculptor haunted by the malicious ghost of his dead father takes its time to get going, but once it does it becomes an interesting, watchable tale with a nice satisfying conclusion. It cleverly keeps the audience guessing about whether the ghost is real or the result of schizophrenia, and has some great looking locations. Its all a little low-key but is definitely worth a look.