A 26-chapter anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty.A 26-chapter anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty.A 26-chapter anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination
Alejandra Urdiaín
- Dulce (segment "B is for Bigfoot")
- (as Alejandra Urdiain)
Greta Martinez
- Xochitl (segment "B is for Bigfoot")
- (as Greta Martínez)
- Directors
- Kaare Andrews(segment V is for Vagitus)
- Angela Bettis(segment E is for Exterminate)
- Hélène Cattet(segment O is for Orgasm)
- Writers
- Ant Timpson
- Nacho Vigalondo(segment A is for Apocalypse)
- Adrian Garcia Bogliano(segment B is for Bigfoot)
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAn Ohio substitute teacher was fired, convicted of four felonies and sentenced to 90 days in jail for showing this movie to students ages 14-18 over the course of 5 days.
- GoofsIn segment N, the young man is standing on the left side, but later the blood scatters from the right.
- Crazy credits(Opening card) The following feature film was created by 26 directors from around the world. Each director was given a letter of the alphabet and asked to choose a word. They then created a short tale of death that related to their chosen word. They had complete artistic freedom regarding the content of their segments.
- Alternate versionsCapelight Pictures released two versions of this movie in Germany. A edited FSK-18 rated version titled "22 Ways to Die" and a completely uncensored SPIO/JK rated version. The cut 18-rated version removes these four segments in order to secure said rating: L is for Libido, V is for Vagitus, X is for XXL, and Y is for Young Buck.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Transfiguration (2016)
Featured review
A Bonkers Collection.
A collection of 26 short films from 26 directors from all over the world, each using a different letter of the alphabet for their theme, The ABCs of Death is an ambitious experiment in horror that, although far too much of a mixed bag to prove wholly entertaining, still offers enough for fans of outrageous cinema to enjoy. Whatever your taste in horror, there will most likely be something here to cater for it, and with each segment being an average running length of just 4 minutes, if you don't like the current tale it's not long before something different comes along.
A large proportion of the films are either frustratingly weak (guilty parties: Adam Wingard, Andrew Traucki, Simon Rumley), utterly perplexing, regrettably mediocre (Angela Bettis, come on down) or just plain bad (yes, Ti West, I'm looking at you—again!), threatening to make the film more of an 'Eh?-to-Zzzzzz' of horror than an A-to-Z (yeah, OK, I shoe-horned that line in, but it was too good to waste!).
Thankfully, the good stuff—the really wild stuff—makes it all worthwhile and then some: Marcel Sarmiento's 'D is for Dogfight' is beautifully shot in slow motion throughout; Xavier Gens' 'X Is for XXL' is wonderfully gory, just as one might imagine from the man who gave us Frontier(s); Thomas Cappelen Malling's 'H is for Hydro-Electric Diffusion' comes across like a live-action cartoon on crack; 'L is for Libido' is fap-tastically depraved; crude claymation short 'T is for Toilet' may lack the finesse of a Nick Park film, but is tons gorier; and words cannot do justice to the insanity on display in Yoshihiro Nishimura's 'Z is for Zetsumetsu'.
Even if, like me, you only really enjoy (or even understand) a handful of these twisted works of art, The ABCs of Death is a commendable effort and easily worth a couple of hours of any degenerate's time; while I can't see myself watching the whole thing again in a hurry, there are certain chapters that I'm sure I'll revisit many times over in the future.
A large proportion of the films are either frustratingly weak (guilty parties: Adam Wingard, Andrew Traucki, Simon Rumley), utterly perplexing, regrettably mediocre (Angela Bettis, come on down) or just plain bad (yes, Ti West, I'm looking at you—again!), threatening to make the film more of an 'Eh?-to-Zzzzzz' of horror than an A-to-Z (yeah, OK, I shoe-horned that line in, but it was too good to waste!).
Thankfully, the good stuff—the really wild stuff—makes it all worthwhile and then some: Marcel Sarmiento's 'D is for Dogfight' is beautifully shot in slow motion throughout; Xavier Gens' 'X Is for XXL' is wonderfully gory, just as one might imagine from the man who gave us Frontier(s); Thomas Cappelen Malling's 'H is for Hydro-Electric Diffusion' comes across like a live-action cartoon on crack; 'L is for Libido' is fap-tastically depraved; crude claymation short 'T is for Toilet' may lack the finesse of a Nick Park film, but is tons gorier; and words cannot do justice to the insanity on display in Yoshihiro Nishimura's 'Z is for Zetsumetsu'.
Even if, like me, you only really enjoy (or even understand) a handful of these twisted works of art, The ABCs of Death is a commendable effort and easily worth a couple of hours of any degenerate's time; while I can't see myself watching the whole thing again in a hurry, there are certain chapters that I'm sure I'll revisit many times over in the future.
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- Apr 19, 2013
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- Also known as
- Ölümün ABC'si
- Filming locations
- Langley, British Columbia, Canada(segment "V is for Vagitus")
- Production companies
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $21,832
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,110
- Mar 10, 2013
- Gross worldwide
- $23,589
- Runtime2 hours 9 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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