The Abcs Of Death
The ABCs of Death is a 2012 American anthology horror film produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League. It contains twenty-six different shorts, each by different directors spanning fifteen countries. The directors were given free rein in choosing a word to create a story involving death. The varieties of death range from accidents to murders. A contest was held for the role of the 26th director. The winner was UK-based director Lee Hardcastle, who submitted a claymation short.
16 June 1986, Paris, France
1963, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
1961, Valdoviño, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
30 October 1970, Southampton, Hampshire, England, UK
January 12, 2014
This is an experimental horror film with 26 directors around the world each making a short film about death. Given the format, it is no surprise there are few hits and a lot of misses.
March 08, 2013
Most are exercises in sickening bad taste, with an emphasis on human bodily functions.
March 07, 2013
There are just too many stories to fit into two hours - and even with fewer weak links, The ABCs of Death might have fallen short all the same.
December 15, 2013
Far too many bad chapters to be an effective whole.
October 30, 2014
If The ABCs of Death 2 seems like a slight improvement over its predecessor, that's simply due to the fact that it achieves a more consistent level of mediocrity.
April 24, 2013
Gives a sense of horror movie making learned by rote - at a boy's school where girls have been admitted under sufferance.
March 07, 2013
At its best when merging shocks with social commentary, this halting compilation improves significantly as it nears the end of the alphabet.
February 20, 2014
There are some good shorts in The ABCs of Death, and yet they're all overshadowed by some of the most awful, idiotic, infantile material I've ever seen in any film.
June 21, 2013
In truth, this movie is more like a parade of overtly shocking and disturbing images, done almost as a one-upsmanship contest rather than any actual need to say anything.
March 07, 2013
It's a feast for fans of the genre and a guaranteed ordeal for everyone else.
December 04, 2013
A bomb.
March 07, 2013
An enormously impressive and massively indulgent cornucopia of 26 short films from all over the world.
