The Bet
Directed by Moisés Rivillas
Colombia · 2025 · 11 min · Alcohol; Eat/Drink; Humour; Macabre; Death; Other
Submitted to RTV International Film Festival 2026Synopsis
Three friends make a daring bet after a night of drinks. One agrees to drive a nail into a grave. He walks alone into the darkness… And the game turns into a nightmare
About the film
Three friends usually get together to drink and make bets, as it's their favorite pastime. After Kike, the drunkest, makes a trivial bet, one of the others suggests something funereal: go to the cemetery with a hammer and a nail and stick it in the grave of the innkeeper's daughter, who had recently died. The silence is deadly, but in a display of courage and, of course, plenty of liquor, Kike decides to accept the bet. He wraps himself in his poncho and leaves, determined to fulfill the agreement. His friends joke among themselves, thinking he'll end up somewhere else, but Kike arrives at the cemetery and finds it closed. He is disappointed, and as he is about to leave, the gate opens by itself. He enters and begins to search for the indicated grave while his friends begin to worry about the delay in returning. While he continues drinking, Kike reaches the designated grave and, in his drunken stupor, speaks to the deceased while his friends arrive at the cemetery and set out to search for him, being visited by fear. Kike drives the nail into the concrete and thanks the deceased, but as he's about to leave, he feels someone tugging at his poncho, and he has a heart attack and dies instantly. His friends, filled with fear, find him and realize the terrible mistake Kike made. He trapped his poncho with the nail.
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