The ABCs of Death

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The ABCs of Death

2013,

2h 3m,

Horror

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23%

10,000+ Ratings

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23%

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10,000+ Ratings

An anthology of stories helmed by more than two dozen directors details 26 ways to die, each corresponding to a different letter of the alphabet.

Critics Consensus

As is often the case with anthology films, The ABCs of Death is wildly uneven, with several legitimately scary entries and a bunch more that miss the mark.

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Catherine Shoard

Guardian

Apr 25, 2013

2/5

It presents 26 disparate (read: in need of an editor) slices of dicing from 26 directors you've almost certainly never heard of (and indeed, the one you have - Ben Wheatley - feels tainted by association).

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Rebecca Ellis

Little White Lies

Apr 25, 2013

3/5

The fans will love. The faint-hearted won't.

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Nigel Floyd

Time Out

Apr 24, 2013

2/5

Gives a sense of horror movie making learned by rote - at a boy's school where girls have been admitted under sufferance.

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Patrick Cavanaugh

The Wolfman Cometh

Sep 22, 2023

4/5

The volume of shorts contained in this anthology set the film apart from its predecessors, as the audience doesn't have time to get bored with any shorts and the effective scenes will stick with them for quite some time.

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

Jul 24, 2019

With each segment running at roughly five minutes in length, there's an inordinate amount of forgettable entries, but that's not to say it's not worth a look.

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Naila Scargill

Exquisite Terror

Feb 28, 2019

The real standout is "Dogfight" from Marcel Sarmiento, an unsettling piece that lingers longer than any other story here.

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Draco S

Nov 30, 2018

Entertaining if youre a lobotomized gerbil.

Albus P

Nov 1, 2018

The most hauntingly awful, disgusting, atrocious ideas and imagery that you will never be able to unsee including a man MASTERBATING to CHILD RAPE and stomping-on-kittens porn. I almost wish I'd been born without eyes so i'd never have seen this. Some of the shorts are quite clever and entertaining but not nearly worth suffering thru the rest. It's not "artsy." It's not "controversial." It's fucking garbage.

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Finn M

Oct 26, 2018

This was pretty bad. None of the shorts were scary, nor were they suspenseful. The 3 shorts I liked were all comedies (Farts, Klutz, Nuptials). Thats pretty crappy when its supposed to be a horror anthology. Even the big name directors came up lame, which was surprising. I definitely wouldn't recommend this anyone.

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Hagrid L

Sep 1, 2018

While some of these featurettes were original, the majority were poorly written. The gratuitous vulgarity made this film less of a horror anthology, and more of a series of borderline fetish pornography.

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Hermione S

Apr 7, 2018

FUCK THIS STUPID SHIT

Han P

Mar 19, 2018

This is an exercise in tolerance for nonsense and gore. Kudos if you can stomach it, though for me it simply made me gradually become more and more numb. There were two letters (D and J) or stories that were decent, in that they weren't simply mindless and/or indulging in violence, though it's not worth watching.

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Angela Bettis

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Hélène Cattet

Director

Ernesto Díaz Espinoza

Director

Jason Eisener

Director

Bruno Forzani

Director

Adrián García Bogliano

Director

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Synopsis

An anthology of stories helmed by more than two dozen directors details 26 ways to die, each corresponding to a different letter of the alphabet.

Director: Angela Bettis, Hélène Cattet, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Jason Eisener, Bruno Forzani, Adrián García Bogliano, Xavier Gens, Noboru Iguchi, Thomas Cappelen Malling, Jorge Michel Grau, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Simon Rumley, Marcel Sarmiento, Jon Schnepp, Srdjan Spasojevic, Timo Tjahjanto, Andrew Traucki, Nacho Vigalondo, Jake West
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: Magnet Releasing
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 8, 2013, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 22, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $7.0K
Runtime: 2h 3m

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