ABCs of Death 2
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ABCs of Death 2 | |
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Directed by | Various directors |
Written by | Various screenwriters |
Produced by | Ant Timpson Tim League |
Starring | Various actors |
Cinematography | Various cinematographers |
Edited by | Various editors |
Music by | Various composers |
Production companies |
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Distributed by | Magnet Releasing |
Release date |
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Running time | 124 minutes |
Countries | United States New Zealand Japan |
Language | Various |
ABCs of Death 2 is a 2014 American anthology horror comedy film produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League. It contains 26 different shorts, each by different directors spanning various countries. It is a sequel to the film The ABCs of Death.[1] The film received a much more positive response than its predecessor.[2]
List of segments and directors
- A is for Amateur (directed by E. L. Katz): An amateur hitman is given a contract to assassinate a drug dealer.
- B is for Badger (directed by Julian Barratt): A rude, narcissistic wildlife documentary director and his crew discover a badger mutated by radiation.
- C is for Capital Punishment (directed by Julian Gilbey): A town which handles local matters, including law and crimes, gives out the execution of a man for the supposed murder of a teenage girl.
- D is for Deloused (directed by Robert Morgan (animator)): A stop-motion animated short about a large bug that helps an executed man get revenge on his ghoulish killers.
- E is for Equilibrium (directed by Alejandro Brugués): Two castaways have their friendship tested when a beautiful woman washes ashore.
- F is for Falling (directed by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado): An Israeli female paratrooper caught in a tree is discovered by a young Arab boy.
- G is for Grandad (directed by Jim Hosking): A rude young man who has been living with grandfather for a year is exasperated by his grandfather's retro taste and lifestyle.
- H is for Head Games (directed by Bill Plympton): A man and woman kiss's turns into a surreal power struggle.
- I is for Invincible (directed by Erik Matti): A family tries to kill the matriarch for her inheritance.
- J is for Jesus (directed by Dennison Ramalho): Two religious men kidnap and torture a young gay man.
- K is for Knell (directed by Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper): A woman experiences the effects of a black liquid that turns people into killers.
- L is for Legacy (directed by Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen): A ritual sacrifice goes horribly wrong after the sacrifice accidentally results in the summoning of a demonic creature.
- M is for Masticate (directed by Robert Boocheck): A man goes on a rampage after doing bath salts.
- N is for Nexus (directed by Larry Fessenden): A man hurries to meet his girlfriend on Halloween.
- O is for Ochlocracy (mob rule) (directed by Hajime Ohata): A woman is sentenced to death by a courtroom full of sentient zombies who regained their intelligence via a vaccination that reverses the negative impacts of the zombie virus.
- P is for P-P-P-P SCARY! (directed by Todd Rohal): An homage to black and white comedy in which three prisoners encounter a strange man and a baby.
- Q is for Questionnaire (directed by Rodney Ascher): A man takes an intelligence test on the street, juxtaposed with footage of the man's brain being forcibly removed and transferred to a gorilla after he aced the test.
- R is for Roulette (directed by Marvin Kren): Two men and a woman play Russian roulette while hidden in a basement.
- S is for Split (directed by Juan Martinez Moreno): A woman is attacked in her home while on the phone with her husband.
- T is for Torture Porn (directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska): A woman (Tristan Risk) is treated misogynistically at an audition.
- U is for Utopia (directed by Vincenzo Natali): An unattractive man is singled out in a mall full of seemingly perfect people and publicly executed by a patrol drone after knocking over a post.
- V is for Vacation (directed by Jerome Sable): A video call between a man on vacation and his girlfriend goes horribly wrong.
- W is for Wish (directed by Steven Kostanski): Two kids wish themselves into a fantasy world of their action figures.
- X is for Xylophone (directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo): A grandmother (Béatrice Dalle) is emotionally affected by her grandchild's xylophone playing.
- Y is for Youth (directed by Soichi Umezawa): A young girl violently fantasizes about the deaths of her abusive, negligent family.
- Z is for Zygote (directed by Chris Nash): A pregnant woman has been staving off birth for 13 years and living with her grown child inside her stomach after her husband left years ago.
References
- ^ Rachel Abrams (May 5, 2013). "Cannes: 'ABCs of Death' Gets Sequel". Variety. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
- ^ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/abcs_of_death_2/
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Categories:
- 2014 films
- 2014 horror films
- 2010s comedy horror films
- American horror films
- American independent films
- Anthology films
- Black comedy films
- English-language films
- Japanese films
- Japanese horror films
- New Zealand films
- New Zealand comedy films
- New Zealand independent films
- New Zealand horror films
- Supernatural horror films
- LGBT-related horror films
- Films directed by Bill Plympton
- Films directed by Julian Gilbey
- Films directed by Vincenzo Natali
- Films directed by the Soska sisters
- American comedy-drama films
- American films
- American comedy horror films
- Horror anthology films
- Films based on urban legends