The ABCs of Death

Dir: Simon Rumley, Adam Wingard, Ben Wheatley, Nacho Vigalondo, Srdjan Spasojevic, Adrián García Bogliano, Kaare Andrews, Anders Morgenthaler, Bruno Forzani, Ti West, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Andrew Traucki, Jake West, Xavier Gens, Jorge Michel Grau, Noboru Iguchi, Angela Bettis, Marcel Sarmiento, Thomas Cappelen Malling, Yūdai Yamaguchi, Lee Hardcastle, Timo Tjahjanto, Jon Schnepp, Jason Eisener, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Hélène Cattet.

2012

**

The idea behind The ABCs of Death is that 26 directors were given a letter of the alphabet each and told to make a short film about death using a word beginning with said letter and to use that as their theme. That's 26 short films about death from A to Z. The possibilities are endless, and yet, apart from a few brilliant shorts (D is for Dogfight , A Is for Apocalypse ) most of the directors have shown themselves as the deprived and immature weirdos that they are. T is for Toilet, F is for Fart, O is for Orgasm are good examples of how childish it can be and also how bizarre the film is in general (F is for Fart being particularly strange). H is for Hyrdo-Electric Diffusion, W is for WTF! and J is for Jidai-geki are refreshingly bizarre and do wake the viewer up somewhat when the film lags and I'm glad V wasn't for Vampire and Z wasn't for Zombie like you'd probably expect. However, the shorts like L is for Libido, Y Is for Youngbuck and M Is for Miscarriage are seriously disturbing, woefully misplaced, add all the paedophilia and the unnecessary animal cruelty to the mix and they make the film as a whole a fairly unpleasant experience. Hit and miss but the misses outweigh the very few hits.