{"id":9535,"date":"2014-12-01T21:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T03:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9535"},"modified":"2014-11-30T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T03:08:08","slug":"the-abcs-of-death-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9535","title":{"rendered":"The ABCs of Death (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Series of short twist-ending horrorshows. Quality was higher than I predicted. I watched in small batches over the course of the month &#8211; this 2+ hour collection is probably more wearying to watch all at once.<\/p>\n<p><b>Apocalypse<\/b><br \/>\nWoman violently kills her husband, apologizes for not doing it more peacefully but she&#8217;d run out of time due to impending apocalypse.  Nacho Vigalondo also directed the fun <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2526\">Timecrimes<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Bigfoot<\/b><br \/>\nBabysitters make up story of Mexico City heart-eaters.  Story is true!  Babysitters&#8217; hearts are eaten, little girl lives.  I must&#8217;ve missed where Bigfoot came in.  Adri\u00e1n Garc\u00c3\u00ada Bogliano made last year&#8217;s <em>Here Comes the Devil<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Cycle<\/b><br \/>\nDoppelganger strangles his other, ad nauseum.  Reliant on shock music.  Ernesto D\u00c3\u00adaz Espinoza is known for action stuff like <em>Kiltro<\/em> and <em>Mirageman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Dogfight<\/b><br \/>\nSlow-mo, dialogue-free man-vs-dog underground fighting ring.  Marcel Sarmiento made a good-sounding abandoned-asylum movie called <em>Deadgirl<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/abcs01.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Exterminate<\/b><br \/>\nLazy dude keeps getting bitten by the same spider.  We see the dude from spider POV sometimes.  Then baby spiders hatch from his ear.  Not as good as the <em>Creepshow<\/em> episode.  Angela Bettis is a Lucky McKee collaborator, directing <em>Roman<\/em> and playing the lead in <em>May<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fart<\/b><br \/>\nThe one about Japanese girls farting.  Nothing to see here. Keep moving.  Noboru Iguchi also made <em>Zombie Ass<\/em> and <em>Bad Butt<\/em> &#8211; I am sensing a trend.<\/p>\n<p><b>Gravity<\/b><br \/>\nSurfer with first-person camera dies.  Not as good as <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8889\">the Cuaron version<\/a>.  Andrew Traucki made a shark movie called <em>The Reef<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Hydro-Electric Diffusion<\/b><br \/>\nLive-action cartoon WWII soldier dog fights nazi stripper fox.  Even better than it sounds!  Thomas Cappelen Malling&#8217;s only other credit is <em>Norwegian Ninja<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/abcs02.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Ingrown<\/b><br \/>\nKidnapped, tied-up girl is injected with <em>Cabin Fever<\/em> virus, dies. Awful high-pitched whine on the soundtrack.  This is the worst. Jorge Michel Grau did the well-reviewed <em>We Are What We Are<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jidai-Geki<\/b><br \/>\nExecutioner cannot focus on his head-chopping job because the dude committing harakiri keeps making funny faces. Yudai Yamaguchi worked on <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1946\">Tokyo Gore Police<\/a><\/em>, directed two comedy-horror baseball movies and something called <em>Meatball Machine<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/abcs03.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Klutz<\/b><br \/>\nAnimation is nice but it&#8217;s about a sentient, murderous piece of poop. Anders Morgenthaler made the enjoyable <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/271\">Princess<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Libido<\/b><br \/>\nNew definition of torture-porn?  Jackoff competition, loser is killed with a stake up the ass.  One guy makes it to round 14 then finds himself on the wrong end of the contest as a girl has sex with him while chainsawing him to death.  Odd.  Timo Tjahjanto made the suicide\/devil-cult segment of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9377\">V\/H\/S\/2<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Miscarriage<\/b><br \/>\nThe shortest segment, and nearly the second in a row to be toilet-based. Ti West has been all the rage since <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5016\">House of the Devil<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Nuptials<\/b><br \/>\nHuge relief because it stars a colorful parrot who does not get killed or hurt.  Talking parrot gives away dude&#8217;s affair during his proposal, he gets knifed. Banjong Pisanthanakun made horrors <em>Shutter<\/em> and <em>Alone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/abcs04.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Orgasm<\/b><br \/>\nThe great <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9356\">Cattet<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9257\">Forzani<\/a> explore new realms of color and slow-motion with a woman receiving oral sex and blowing soap bubbles.  I hope they make another movie soon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/abcs05.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Pressure<\/b><br \/>\nProstitute in financial trouble accepts job to be videotaped stomping kittens to death.  Kinda the saddest one.  Simon Rumley is known for <em>Red White &#038; Blue<\/em> and <em>The Living and the Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Quack<\/b><br \/>\nDirector Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett decide their segment will stand out for featuring a real death, and plan to kill a caged duck on camera, but they don&#8217;t know how guns work and end up shooting each other.  By far this is my favorite Wingard movie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/abcs06.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Removed<\/b><br \/>\nHospital prisoner\/patient has valuable movie film under his skin, but also has subcutaneous bullets for self-defense.  <em>Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat<\/em> features prominently, and it rains blood at the end.  Hunh?  Srdjan Spasojevic&#8217;s only other credit is snuff-movie thriller <em>A Serbian Film<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Speed<\/b><br \/>\nNotably bad acting and editing.  <em>Mad Max<\/em> dystopia turns out to be fantasies of dying druggies.  Jake West does DVD-extra docs for horror movies including the feature <em>Phantasmagoria<\/em> on the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/64\">Phantasm<\/a><\/em> series.<\/p>\n<p><b>Toilet<\/b><br \/>\nFantastic claymation.  I was nervous since this is the third toilet-based short in the series but it&#8217;s completely wonderful.  Lee Hardcastle has 20 credits from the last 3 years, and they&#8217;re all clay remakes of horror movies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/abcs07.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Unearthed<\/b><br \/>\nDeath of a vampire, from the vampire&#8217;s first-person perspective, in just a few takes.  I&#8217;ve seen most of Ben Wheatley&#8217;s movies, most recently <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9223\">A Field in England<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/abcs08.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Vagitus<\/b><br \/>\nSci-fi population-control short looks ike a video game cutscene, super slick, no idea what happened because I turned the volume down but someone was executed in the name of the government and someone else exploded.  Kaare Andrews is the second director here after Ti West to have made a <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/285\">Cabin Fever<\/a><\/em> sequel.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/abcs09.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><b>WTF!<\/b><br \/>\nBrief <em>Metalocalypse<\/em>-looking animation becomes making-of segment, freewheeling live-action ideas that start with W (includes an Insane Clown Posse magnets reference), then the whole thing turns brutally insane and hilarious.  Jon Schnepp directs\/designs\/edits <em>Metalocalypse<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/abcs10.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><b>XXL<\/b><br \/>\nFrench people super-taunt an overweight girl until she goes home and cuts herself thin with knives.  Xavier Gens made <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1077\">Frontier(s)<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Youngbuck<\/b><br \/>\nSchool janitor is a pedophile, a young victim takes revenge.  No spoken dialogue, set to upbeat 1980&#8217;s montage music.  Jason Eisener made <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6650\">Hobo with a Shotgun<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9377\">Slumber Party Alien Abduction<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Zetsumetsu<\/b><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/79\">Dr. Strangelove<\/a><\/em>-referencing nazi race-war sex-melee dystopia, ending the anthology in an orgy of bad taste.  Yoshihiro Nishimura directed <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1946\">Tokyo Gore Police<\/a><\/em>, obviously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Series of short twist-ending horrorshows. Quality was higher than I predicted. I watched in small batches over the course of the month &#8211; this 2+ hour collection is probably more wearying to watch all at once. 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