The highly-anticipated Lang Tong film will be screened on Dec. 13, 2014, at the National Museum of Singapore. It is easily one of the hottest films at the Singapore International Film Festival 2014.

Before you go and watch it and come out after that thinking how you are feeling bamboozled, here are 11 things you need to know about the film to make you appreciate it and the cast more:

1. The trailer for Lang Tong posted on YouTube has been viewed more than 320,000 times .

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There have been only 32 downvotes so far but the video has been flagged to be inappropriate for the young. This is a signal expectations are high.

2. Angeline Yap became a trending search term on Google in Singapore after this article came out.

The 27-year-old actress/ pageant queen/ ex-civil servant/ National University of Singapore communications and new media graduate has been the talk of the town.

3. Lang Tong was made with a shoestring budget of $500,000. It had a production team of less than 20 people.

In comparison, local film, re:solve, released in February 2014, which was billed as Singapore's first action crime thriller, cost $1.2 million to make.

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The upcoming movie, 1965 (above), to commemorate Singapore's 50 years of independence next year, will cost $2.8 million to make.

4. Lang Tong was shot over two weeks in April in a flat in Tiong Bahru.

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5. Lang Tong was made with an international audience in mind.

Angeline Yap accepted the role when she wasn't even sure if the film will make it past Singapore's censors.

6. Lang Tong is just one of the films Angeline Yap is starring in.

She is in another film called Kopi-O.

As well as another indie drama called 1400.

7. The director, Sam Loh, 46, has more than 15 years of film and TV directing experience for Channel 5 and Channel 8.

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He made another film, Outsiders, in 2004, about young dysfunctional Singaporeans. It was initially selected to debut at the festival in Singapore a decade ago but was pulled out after he did not agree to screen it with cuts.

Lang Tong was passed uncensored.

8. Loh had written the script for Lang Tong a few years ago and Angeline Yap was the first actress to take up the role.

9. Tickets for the Dec. 13 Singapore International Film Festival screening were sold out relatively quickly and a commercial release date is in discussion.

10. Lang Tong borrows elements from Takashi Miike's Audition (1999) and Fruit Chan's Dumplings (2004).

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11. Loh filmed the steamy scenes on the first day of shooting to get the awkwardness out of the way.

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Censors watched this S’porean film, rated it R21 and left it uncut. Here is the NSFW trailer for Lang Tong.