The ABCs of Death
March. 08,2013 NRAn 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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I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.
The concept was interesting, but having so many stories mean they're short. Some stories worked well, but others were terrible. Some come off as some kind of weird soft porno, while others are stupid. The handful of stories that were good are worth watching. It's just too bad that you have to sit through the weaker, stupid stuff to view them. The titles of the alphabet stories appear at the end and, frankly, some of the titles were really stretching it. In this type of collection, I would expect some humor or irony. This was not so. I particularly enjoy the one for W because it was creative and funny. Some stories are in different languages, so there are some subtitles, but not too much. I don't mind subtitles. I wish I could give it a higher score, but the bad bits were really that bad. I won't discourage people and say don't see it. As long as you know what you're in for, go for it. I've seen worse.
There are a few decent shorts buried in a tsunami of awfulness, which sadly aren't even good enough to justify watching this whole thing. A few are mildly creepy, most are just crude and gross. The only common aspect that unites this as a film is a general sense of filmmakers flailing around, desperately trying to find something to shock or repulse the viewer. Most of them settle for just throwing a few buckets of whatever body fluid they have handy at the viewer.I'll be honest, I only made it to "S" before giving up, but this was simply a piece of crap. Not even worth watching for the few OK films - sitting through all the bad ones is such a mind numbing and repulsive experience, you won't even remember them.
If you are a fan of farts, miscarriages, turds, a human versus dog fight, or a woman indulging a man's crush fetish, than perhaps this movie was made for you. Otherwise, even the most seasoned horror fans are likely to be disappointed with this one. Despite more than 2 hours of run time, each segment feels very brief and unable to create anything of substance. At the same time, many of the segments are so unbearable that the next and possibly less god-awful short cannot come soon enough. I have been a tremendous fan of horror my entire life. As well, I am a proponent of creative integrity and freedom from Hollywood's repetitive idiocy. However, if this is what these directors came up with with "artistic freedom" then perhaps they should try another line of work. I find nothing about this film terrifying, humorous, or entertaining in any way. Rather, each segment was dull, predictable and seemed more interest in pushing the boundaries of the grotesque rather than trying to create something interesting. One can only assume that an incredibly cheap production cost is what lead to a sequel to this disaster of a collection. Hitchcock would be rolling over in his grave if he knew this abomination passed for "horror."
I think this is probably the worst thing i've ever seen. The few descent segments are terrible at best, but the rest range from stupid to disorienting to pretentious to outright plagiarism. I gave it a shot and sat through the entire boring and too terrible to laugh at couple of hours, but i gave up on it after the third or fourth poop joke. I want the 129 minutes of my life that i wasted on this "film" back. I suppose i could have forgiven it for being innovative as it claims to be, if it was in fact innovative. The most disappointing thing is the fact that IMDb does not have a '0' star rating. Please for the love of all that is holy, watch something else.