2013 · horror
The ABCs of Death
Directed by Angela Bettis, Hélène Cattet, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Jason Eisener, Bruno Forzani, Adrián García Bogliano, Xavier Gens, Noboru Iguchi, Thomas Cappelen Malling, Jorge Michel Grau, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Simon Rumley, Marcel Sarmiento, Jon Schnepp, Srđan Spasojević, Timo Tjahjanto, Andrew Traucki, Nacho Vigalondo, Jake West, Ti West, Ben Wheatley, Adam Wingard, Yudai Yamaguchi, Lee Hardcastle, Kaare Andrews, Anders Morgenthaler2h 9m2013
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.
Our read: The ABCs of Death (2013) reads as a heavy, kinetic, surreal horror entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme horror, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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“You want extreme horror roulette—twenty-six shorts, wildly uneven, often shocking.”
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