The ABCs of Death
- Xavier Gens,
- Angela Bettis,
- Jake West,
- Noboru Iguchi,
- Andrew Traucki,
- Anders Morgenthaler,
- Yoshihiro Nishimura,
- Banjong Pisanthanakun,
- Marcel Sarmiento,
- Ti West,
- Adam Wingard,
- Adrián García Bogliano,
- Yudai Yamaguchi,
- Nacho Vigalondo,
- Ernesto Díaz Espinoza,
- Hélène Cattet,
- Bruno Forzani,
- Simon Rumley,
- Ben Wheatley,
- Kaare Andrews,
- Jason Eisener,
- Thomas Cappelen Malling,
- Jon Schnepp,
- Timo Tjahjanto,
- Jorge Michel Grau,
- Srđan Spasojević,
- Lee Hardcastle - 2013
Synopsis
An ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world's leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children's educational ABC books, the film comprises 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were then given free reign in choosing a word to create a story involving death.
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Cast
- Ingrid Bolsø BerdalFrau Scheisse (voice)
- Erik AudéFighter
- Iván GonzálezBobo
- Kyra ZagorskyLainey
- Peter PedreroHooded Man
- Dallas Malloy
- Lee HardcastleDad
- Lucy ClementsLulu
- DarenziaRoxanne
- Arisa NakamuraYoshie
Recommendations
- 80
Salon
The ABCs of Death is one-stop shopping for deviant cinema, a Pu Pu platter of perversity. It made me laugh hysterically, shout with outrage, wince with discomfort and yearn to hide under the sofa, all by the halfway mark. - 75
The Playlist
The end result provides a range of quality, from the inspired and creative to the lazy and insipid, but one that horror fans will certainly devour. - 63
Slant Magazine
Tellingly, this horror anthology's finest entries convey how real horror comes in more than shades of red, and how it lives inside us all. - 58
Film.com
Even at thirty seconds a piece, 26 shorts would feel, fittingly, like overkill. The ABCs of Death has no shortage of inventive, ironic and gruesome sketches, but the novelty of its successes just barely outweighs its stillborn stuff. - 50
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
An instant midnight movie, a morbid mishmash of styles and filmmaking formats – 26 films, 26 filmmakers from the four corners of the horror globe, all making short films about death. It’s not for everyone. - 50
Boston Globe
Do your tastes delve into the sick, ultra-violent, and disturbing? Then you may find The ABCs of Death, an anthology of about two dozen short films, inventive and funny. Otherwise, as you consume this serving of alphabet soup, “A” may as well stand for “atrocious,” “B” for “bloodbath,” and “C” for “check, please.” - 50
The New York Times
At its best when merging shocks with social commentary, this halting compilation improves significantly as it nears the end of the alphabet. - 42
The A.V. Club
Many of the shorts are visibly impressive, given their scant budgets, and there’s no end of visual and thematic creativity stretched throughout the anthology; there are, after all, a million horrible, memorable ways to die.
