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ABCs of Death 2
Theatrical release poster
Directed byVarious directors
Written byVarious screenwriters
Produced by
StarringVarious actors
CinematographyVarious cinematographers
Edited byVarious editors
Music byVarious composers
Production
companies
Distributed byMagnet Releasing
Release dates
  • September 18, 2014 (2014-09-18) (Fantastic Fest)
  • January 1, 2017 (2017-01-01) (Limited release)
Running time
124 minutes
CountryUnited States[1]
LanguagesEnglish
Japanese
Spanish
German

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 2012 film The ABCs of Death.[2] The film received a much more positive response than its predecessor. A second sequel, ABCs of Death 2.5 is released in late 2016.

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): 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 Buožytė 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.

Reception

ABCs of Death 2 has a 76% approval rating on film review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes and an average rating of 6.1/10 based on 29 reviews.[3]

References

  1. ^ "ABCs of Death 2 (2014)". AllMovie. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  2. ^ Rachel Abrams (May 5, 2013). "Cannes: 'ABCs of Death' Gets Sequel". Variety. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
  3. ^ "ABCs of Death 2 (2014) - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes.com. Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 11 December 2015.
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