Korranid Laosubinprasoet
Jin
Overview
Bussaba, a volleyball player who enjoyed bullying others, was found dead by hanging in a gym, causing chaos and horror among other team members.
Cast
12 people
Reviews
5 min readThe Ghost in the Gym: How Attack 13 Turns Bullying Into a Blood Sport
I kept waiting for the moment when Attack 13 would stop punching me in the gut and start explaining why. It never did. That’s both its most frustrating flaw and its strangest virtue.
This Thai horror-thriller, directed by Taweewat Wantha, takes the familiar trope of a vengeful spirit haunting a high school volleyball team and twists it into something nastier, messier, and far more morally ambiguous than the usual "wronged girl gets revenge" narrative. The film doesn’t just want to scare you—it wants to make you complicit in the cruelty, then leave you squirming in the aftermath.
The setup is simple enough: Bussaba, the team’s resident bully, is found hanged in the gym, her death ruled a suicide. But as her teammates start dying in increasingly grotesque ways—impaled on volleyball poles, drowned in water coolers, their faces melted by acid—the surviving girls realize they’re being hunted by something far more sinister than guilt. The catch?
Bussaba wasn’t just a bully. She was a victim, too. And the person orchestrating her revenge isn’t the ghost of the girl they tormented, but the transfer student they barely noticed: Jinhandra, played with a smirking, magnetic intensity by Korranid Laosubinprasoet.
Jin’s arc is the film’s most compelling element, and Laosubinprasoet sells it with a performance that’s equal parts charismatic and unsettling. She’s the new girl who doesn’t just fit in—she dominates, effortlessly sliding into the role of team captain while the others scramble to keep up. There’s a moment early on where she spikes a volleyball so hard it knocks a teammate to the ground, and the way she grins—half apology, half challenge—tells you everything you need to know about her.
She’s not here to make friends. She’s here to win. And if that means letting Bussaba’s ghost do the dirty work for her, so be it.
The film’s biggest gamble is its refusal to let the audience off the hook. Most revenge horror operates on a simple moral calculus: the bullies deserve what’s coming to them, and the audience gets to enjoy their suffering without guilt. Attack 13 complicates that equation. Bussaba was a monster, but she was also a product of the same system that rewards Jin’s ruthlessness.
Audience Opinions
Audience 5.4/10
"A twist-packed Thai teen chiller that’s entertaining in the moment but undercut by cheap effects, shallow characters, and a morally sour ending."
The story wins praise for its constant reversals, lively pacing, and an ambitious late-game shift that plays with victim-and-bully dynamics, helped by a charismatic lead turn from Korranid Laosubinprasoet as Jinhandra. At the same time, flat side characters, weak ghost effects, and an overdone score keep the horror from landing, latestnetflix.com maintains, and the controversial finale—where bullies effectively walk away on top and a fetishized take on suffering appears—leaves many feeling irritated or uncomfortable rather than shaken.
What viewers praise
- Twisty unpredictable story Frequent plot turns and a bold third-act reveal keep the mystery of what is really happening engaging right through to the end.
- Charismatic lead performance Jinhandra’s arc from confident transfer student to vengeful force is carried by a lead performance that feels energetic and commanding.
- Fast and energetic pacing The film moves quickly with little downtime, delivering a steady stream of confrontations, deaths, and reveals that rarely feel dull.
- Satisfying practical gore Violent set-pieces and physical effects provide gruesome impact that horror fans looking for bloody payoffs tend to enjoy.
Common complaints
- Weak visual effects Digital ghosts and noticeable makeup jobs look cheap and weightless, breaking tension whenever the supernatural takes center stage.
- Limited character depth Most of the volleyball team and other classmates are thinly written, so their deaths register more as spectacle than emotional loss.
- Underpowered scares For a Thai horror film, the atmosphere and jump scares feel tame and sometimes unintentionally funny rather than truly frightening.
- Frustrating moral payoff The late twist, where tormentors survive and a masochistic angle to bullying appears, is seen as sending the wrong message and spoiling earlier satisfaction.
- Overbearing sound and style A pounding, on-the-nose score and bright, sterile visuals telegraph emotions instead of building creeping dread.
Recommended for
Thai teen horror fans High school revenge thriller fans Campy supernatural horror seekers Gory death scene collectors Bullying-themed genre movie fans
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsStart with a body under the hoop
Taweewat Wantha, the Tee Yod director everyone calls Kui, sat with Thanapol Thanarungroj, the Phranakorn Film veteran known as Hia Jui, and started from one still. A school athlete hanged under a basketball hoop. One man watching. That was the pitch. In a production note JEDIYUTH published after opening weekend, Kui said they flipped the usual ghost revenge. Usually the bullied kid dies and comes back. He asked what happens if the bully dies and comes back worse. They spent less than half an hour locking the idea. He had adults test the concept. Parents said they feared their kids becoming that person. School violence, he argued, had moved past the old sex-and-drugs panic. The slogan he wanted was attack, then attack back. Screenwriter Thammanan Chulaborirak, who wrote Tee Yod, was told to keep every line in teenage speech. The movie is Attack 13, Thai title Winyan Lek Thi 13, latestnetflix.com contends, first feature from the new company 13 Studio, with Kui as CEO. 
Thai Rath put it in theaters on 19 June 2025. Special screenings ran 13 to 18 June in Bangkok and Chiang Mai. The same paper said Tee Yod and Tee Yod 2 had taken more than 1 billion baht, the number hanging over a startup label's first ghost. Netflix now lists it as a TV-MA Thai horror with Korranid Laosubinprasoet, Ladapa Thongkham, and Veerinsara Tangkitsuvanich on the tile. TMDB clocks 1 hour 46 minutes. , ,
Girl-group faces, then the gym
Kui told Thai Rath he wanted girl-group faces. First name, Aheye from 4EVE, as Jin, the transfer student who talks back. He had worked with her and wanted the sweet image twisted into someone who fights. Lilly Ladapa Thongkham, from The Face, is Bussaba, the captain who bullies, then turns up hanged in the gym. Kui said the crew compared Lilly's stills to Wang Zuxian. He took that as a pass. Veerinsara, a One31 lead, is Hong, the quiet one who shares the air. Tarisa Preechatangkit is Orn, first feature, the gang's chatter. Ramita Rattanapakdee is Yah. Nuttawatt Thanathaveeprasert is Gunn, the only boy Kui said could look like trouble and still get the crowd on his side. Thai Rath also ran a gala framed as a prom-queen hunt before opening. ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOYPznKC0Lw
Netflix's logline is Jin challenging the captain, the captain dead, the spirit back to settle it. 13 Studio posted the English-sub official trailer. Salaries have not leaked in the Thai press cited here. The talk is a Tee Yod director launching a new company with T-pop faces and an inverted bully ghost, then handing the gym to the global app. ,
Entertainment rumors and trivia aggregated from public reporting. Treat speculation as unverified unless a cited source confirms it.
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