THE ABC’S OF DEATH

BY CHRISTOPHER HASKELL
MARCH 13, 2013

“The ABCs of Death” continues the multiple-director horror anthology trend and presents 26 shorts directed by 26 different filmmakers, depicting a death for each letter of the alphabet. The fun of the shorts is knowing the letter and trying to determine what death will occur.

Most of the shorts are gruesome and bordering on torture porn (“P is for Pressure”), while some are just baffling and incoherent (“W is for WTF”). But a few shorts rank very highly on both the horror and film-making playing field, with “D is for Dogfight” remaining one of the most well-made shorts of the bunch. A mixture of comedic, animated, otherworldly, and overall artistic representations in “The ABCs of Death” makes it a positive step in bringing unknown filmmakers to a higher level while also bringing in (now) well-knowns like Ti West (whose short is relatively simple).