The ABCs of Death (2012)
Storyline
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 motion picture is comprised of 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. Provocative, shocking, funny and ultimately confrontational; THE ABC's OF DEATH is the definitive snapshot of the diversity of modern horror.
Directors
Kaare Andrews, Xavier Gens, Jason Eisener, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Srđan Spasojević, Ben Wheatley, Lee Hardcastle, Angela Bettis, Hélène Cattet, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Bruno Forzani, Adrián García Bogliano, Noboru Iguchi, Thomas Cappelen Malling, Jorge Michel Grau, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Simon Rumley, Marcel Sarmiento, Jon Schnepp, Timo Tjahjanto, Andrew Traucki, Nacho Vigalondo, Jake West, Ti West, Adam Wingard, Yudai Yamaguchi, Anders Morgenthaler
Writers
Cast
Peter Pedrero, Iván González, Greg De Cuir, Chems Dahmani, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Erik Audé, Kyra Zagorsky, Dallas Malloy, Lee Hardcastle, Lucy Clements, Darenzia, Arisa Nakamura, Matías Oviedo, Takashi Nishina, Hiroko Yashiki, Demo Tanaka, Fraser Corbett, Miguel Insua, Sarah Bonrepaux, Je$$ica, Arata Yamanaka, Eva Llorach, Seminosuke Murasugi, Hozake Yamada, Xavier Magot, Yoshio Komatsu, Manon Beuchot, Joshua Diolosa, Honoka Murakami, Kurumi Ochiai, Sadashi Matsubayashi, Katsuyuki Miyake, Tomomi Sugai, Atsushi Hiroki, Match, Kim Richardson, Johanna Katharina Riebesam, Jon Øigarden, Juanita Ringeling
Trailer
Reviews
80
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 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
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
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.
