The ABCs of Death

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Movie
German title The ABCs of Death (SPIO / JK)
22 Ways to Die (FSK)
Original title The ABCs of Death
Country of production United States
Publishing year 2012
length SPIO / JK: 123 minutes
Age rating FSK no youth approval (abbreviated)
SPIO / JK: criminally harmless (unabridged)
Rod
Director various
production Ant Timpson
Tim League
chronology

Successor  →
ABCs of Death 2

The ABCs of Death is an existing of 26 parts of Horror - episodic film , which was produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League 2012th It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2012 .

The film was released in Germany on 29 May 2013 for rentals under the original title in full at the highest possible release "criminal safe". However, this can only be purchased in German-speaking countries, while only a very shortened version is available in German sales, which misses four complete episodes (Libido, Vagitus, XXL and Youngbuck) and is therefore called 22 Ways to Die . This received no youth approval from the FSK .

Background and plot

Each of the 26 parts was shot by a different director. Everyone received - in the style of a children's book - one letter of the alphabet and was asked to make a short film on the subject of death for $ 5,000, with the greatest possible freedom. They were free to choose the word corresponding to the letter. In order to give the film a better weight, some of the letters were subsequently changed. For example, Y for Yeti became B for Bigfoot .

The film begins with a wave of blood washing into a child's room and arranging blocks of letters in the form of the film's title. After each episode, its title is displayed in the same way. There is no framework plot like in other horror episode films.

  • A is for Apocalypse : Nacho Vigalondo
    A man wakes up in his bed. His wife brings him breakfast. Suddenly she seriously injured him with a knife, poured hot fat on his face and hit him with a pan. When the man is still alive after that, she confesses to him that she has been slowly poisoning him for months. But now she is running out of time. He then notices screams and accident noises coming up from the street. The bedroom window is filled with a glaring light.
  • B is for Bigfoot (Bigfoot) : Adrian Garcia Bogliano
    A young man has to take care of his little cousin. His girlfriend is annoyed by it. So that the little girl can go to sleep and have sex, tell her a story of a monster that tears out the hearts of young children and with whom the government has agreed that it should only do this with children who do not become one be in bed at a certain time. While the little girl is hiding in bed, scared, a murderer breaks into the apartment when the young man is taking down the garbage. The man, reminiscent of Bigfoot , kills the couple by ripping out their hearts while the child crouches under the covers.
  • C is for Cycle : Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
    One man gradually discovers that a time-delayed version of himself has emerged from a black hole in the hedge and is behind strange phenomena in the house and garden. He is strangled by his clone, who hides the body in a hole in the hedge. The cycle then begins again.
  • D is for Dogfight : Marcel Sarmiento
    Episode about an exhibition match in which one of the two fighters is a man and the other is a fighting dog . While it looks like the man is going to win at first, the dog eventually gains the upper hand. Shortly before the end of the fight - the dog is about to bite the man in the neck - the two lose each other briefly in each other's eyes, and you see a memory sequence in which a man is desperately looking for his stolen dog. The dog then remembers who his real master is, since he wears the dog's necklace during a fight, and together they attack his trainer while the spectators flee.
  • E is for Exterminate : Angela Bettis
    A man discovers a spider in his house. When he tries to kill her with a magazine, she disappears and appears on his neck, where she bites him. The spider observed him over the next few days and bites him in more and more places on the face. The man complains of an earache to his girlfriend. When he finally killed the spider, his earache got worse and suddenly a lot of small spiders crawl out of his ear.
  • F is for Fart : Noboru Iguchi
    A schoolgirl saves herself from deadly natural gas eruptions in the flatulence of the teacher she adored.
  • G is for Gravity : Andrew Traucki
    A surfboard carries its owner, from whose perspective the film is shown, towards his death.
  • H is for Hydro-Electric Diffusion : Thomas Cappelen Malling
    In a throwback to Tex Avery's cartoons a device British bulldog of a Nazi - vixen into the trap. The two fight, and finally the bulldog gains the upper hand and kills the vixen with some kind of machine.
  • I is for Ingrown : Jorge Michel Grau
    A young woman wakes up cuffed in the bathtub of a man who gives her an injection. The woman then begins to scratch and vomit badly until she dies. Meanwhile, her inner monologue can be heard.
  • J is for Jidai-geki (samurai film) : Yûdai Yamaguchi
    A samurai who helps a confidante with ritual suicide is haunted by bizarre visions in which the would-be suicide makes seemingly absurd faces. However, he manages to carry out his mission successfully.
  • K is for Klutz (Trample) : Anders Morgenthaler
    Animated cartoon about a woman doing big business in a public toilet. In trying to wash down her excrement, she is so clumsy that her feces, which develop a life of their own, eventually kill her.
  • L is for Libido (Libido) : Timo Tjahjanto
    A young man wakes up. He finds himself chained to a chair in front of a stage. A second man is chained next to him. Various sexual scenes take place on stage, to which the two have to masturbate . The one who climaxes faster stays alive. The other is pierced through a jig under the chair and replaced with the next candidate. Gradually worse and worse fetishes are performed on the stage. When a leg amputated woman masturbates with her prosthesis, he can only survive because one of the guards shows him her pubic area. The killing device, however, has a defect and kills not only his competitor but also his well-meaning guard. When the young man lost to child abuse , he is finally brought on stage. Two new contestants now have to satisfy each other as they watch a young woman kill him with a chainsaw during sex .
  • M is for Miscarriage : Ti West
    A woman tries to flush her miscarriage down the toilet by searching her house for a butt.
  • N is for Nuptials (wedding) : Banjong Pisanthanakun
    A young man brings a parrot to his girlfriend, who is preparing the meal with a knife. This is anything but enthusiastic. Her friend then shows her that the bird can be trained. The parrot then makes a wedding proposal on behalf of her friend and hands her the ring. When she accepted enthusiastically, the bird tells about the man's affair with another woman and imitates how the two moaned during sex. The woman stabs the man with the knife.
  • O is for Orgasm : Bruno Forzani , Hélène Catted
    The short film shows the feelings and mood of a female orgasm, a small death.
  • P is for Pressure : Simon Rumley
    A young woman, mother of several children, desperately needs money to rent and buy a bicycle for a daughter. She eventually prostitutes herself, but her boyfriend steals her savings, making her situation worse. She responds to a vague ad. She has to kick a kitten with high heels to death in front of the camera.
  • Q is for Quack : Adam Wingard , Simon Barrett
    The two directors make their desperation over the letter the subject. The money received for the short film has already been spent, but they still haven't come up with anything useful for Q. They then decide that their film should stand out from the rest by a real death contained in it. For this they want to kill a duck because it would make quack . When they stand with their weapons in front of the cage, neither of them manages to shoot the animal. They accidentally shoot each other while waving their guns.
  • R is for Removed : Srdjan Spasojevic
    A prisoner's skin is used to make celluloid . In the end, the patient manages to break free and shoot his tormentors.
  • S is for Speed ​​(Speed) : Jake West
    A woman pulls another woman out of a bunker-like building in the desert. She forces the other woman into the trunk of her car and fights her monstrous pursuer with a flamethrower. She gets in the car and speeds through the desert. When she runs out of fuel, the pursuer finally catches up with her and claims her life. When she dies, a change of scene shows her dying from an overdose of the drug Speed . Her friend then steals the rest of the fabric, takes a shot and also ends up in the desert.
  • T is for Toilet : Lee Hardcastle
    A competition was held for this episode. The winner was Lee Hardcastle, who created a clay animation about a little boy's fear of the toilet. The parents throw away his potty in order to force him to use the large toilet despite his nightmares. The next night the boy sees no way out and goes to the toilet. When the father checks to see how his son is doing, he has to watch as his child is killed by the cistern hanging over the toilet.
  • U is for Unearthed : Ben Wheatley
    Point-of-View-Shot : From the point of view of an undead (a vampire) it is shown how he is supposed to be killed by villagers in a ritual. For a short time he manages to escape and kill some of the villagers before being caught again. First two canine teeth (vampire teeth) are pulled from him, then a stake is driven into his heart and his head is cut off.
  • V is for Vagitus (the cry of a newborn) : Kaare Andrews
    In 2035, an authority wants to hunt down a family whose child is said to have psychic powers. To do this, an inspector with a robot penetrates the warehouse where the family and numerous guards are hiding. The inspector hopes to be exempt from the breeding ban through the 10-year service for the authority. In a vision, however, she learns during the operation that she is sterile and therefore everything is in vain, which is why she turns against the authority.
  • W is for WTF! (What the hell ...) : Jon Schnepp
    First, a short animated sequence is shown in which a witch ( witch will) sacrifice a woman named Wendy in her hut. The Knight Willowford comes in, however, by a warlock ( warlock killed). The animation ends and you can see a man sitting at the PC. He explains to his boss, who is just coming in, that he is sitting at the last image of his animation. The boss is mad that it's an animation. The man says he had different ideas:
    • A walrus ( walrus ) similar to Godzilla is supposed to destroy a city.
    • A bloodstained warrior ( warrior ) chases trolls.
    • An old man in a wheelchair ( wheelchair ) is pushed by his nurse off a cliff.
    Then the secretary comes into the room and calls them both into the conference room. There is news on a television in which a man says that suddenly many colorful contrails in the form of Ws have appeared in the sky. The world is also besieged by clown zombies. Again and again in the news there are pictures of the three suggested films and the animation. In addition, the letter W is displayed again and again. The clown zombies reach the filmmaker's office and kill them.
  • X for XXL (XXL) : Xavier Gens
    A young overweight woman is mocked by everyone. She then takes an electric knife and starts cutting away all of the meat on herself. The next morning she is just a skeleton covered in shreds of flesh. She makes a few movements like a photo shoot , then collapses.
  • Y for Youngbuck : Jason Eisener
    An old man works as a caretaker at a school for young boys. It corresponds to the stereotypical portrayal of a child-fixated sex offender. He shoots a deer in front of a little boy in the forest and chops off the head of the animal with a knife before undressing in front of the boy. The next day the boy surprises the man at school and stabs his eyes with the stag's head and antlers. The style of the film and the city it is set in allude to Eisener's film Hobo with a Shotgun .
  • Z is for Zetsumetsu (extinction) : Yoshihiro Nishimura
    A Japanese scientist modeled on Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strange conjures up the future after the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bloody Disgusting: Watch the Winning 'ABCs of Death' Short Film 'T is for Toilet'