{"id":118369,"date":"2013-03-15T04:57:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T11:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=118369"},"modified":"2013-03-14T22:08:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T05:08:20","slug":"the-abcs-of-death-movie-review-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2013\/03\/15\/the-abcs-of-death-movie-review-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The ABCs of Death Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: The ABCs of Death<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Producers: Ant Timpson and Tim League \/\/ Directors: Various<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Horror has always been a popular format for anthologizing, both because of its DIY roots and the fact that certain kernels of elemental\u00a0discomfort often don&#8217;t quite rise to the merits of a full-length story or movie. A massive\u00a0anthology film rooted in those children&#8217;s educational books from days of yore, producers Tim League and Ant Timpson&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;The ABCs of Death&#8221; corrals 26 short movies from 26 different directors &#8212; assigning each a letter of the alphabet and then giving them free reign in choosing a word (or phrase) to encapsulate a story involving death. It&#8217;s an interesting idea, certainly, but one that never fully congeals or takes flight, owing to the vast qualitative spread of the offerings.<\/p>\n<p>A natural (and popular) selection at both last year&#8217;s Fantastic Fest and the Toronto Film Festival, &#8220;The ABCs of Death&#8221; features a number of known or\u00a0critically anointed\u00a0young genre directors, but also as much as anything serves as a hand-up showcase for young talent. That experiential diversity is reflected in the breadth of the work. Some entries are under-sketched while others, like Jon Schnepp&#8217;s aptly named &#8220;WTF!,&#8221; are stylistic orgies of pointlessness. Many, like Noburo Iguchi&#8217;s giggly-gross &#8220;Fart,&#8221; actually have a comedic bent.<\/p>\n<p>Of the spread, though,\u00a0seven were by my count passably entertaining, and only around five others truly superlative. In the former camp, Adam Wingard&#8217;s &#8220;Quack&#8221; uses the very premise of the anthology for a diverting write-around; &#8220;Toilet&#8221; and &#8220;Klutz,&#8221;\u00a0meanwhile, are among a small handful of animated efforts. The cream of the crop were each quite different from one another, but share a penchant for experimentation &#8212; the lifeblood of short-form film and video. Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet&#8217;s heady, gorgeously shot, investigational &#8220;Orgasm&#8221; leaves a mark upon one&#8217;s memory, as does Simon Rumley&#8217;s grim &#8220;Pressure,&#8221; a slice of kitten snuff porn. Srdjan Spasojevic&#8217;s &#8220;Removed&#8221; tantalizingly hints at something deeper, while Xavier Gens&#8217; deeply unsettling &#8220;XXL&#8221; presents a fat girl&#8217;s self-immolation. The best effort, though, may just be Marcel Sarmiento&#8217;s slow-motion &#8220;Dogfight&#8221; &#8212; a twisted, how&#8217;d-they-do-that rendering of an underground\u00a0death match between man and dog.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds perhaps racist to say, but &#8220;The ABCs of Death&#8221; could have perhaps benefited from a few more Western voices. A number of entries dote in yawning fashion on weighted\u00a0topics that are familiar psycho-sexual stand-ins (Japanese schoolgirls, female body taboos), while others &#8212; with Nazis and a girl with a tattoo of the exploding Twin Towers on her breasts &#8212; seem designed for empty shock. While it&#8217;s\u00a0admittedly utterly\u00a0foolish to assign aggregate grades across such a wide variety of creative work, the\u00a0marks below attempt to do just that &#8212; providing a doff of the cap to the technical adventurousness of many entries, while also taking into account the array of middling imaginations on display.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: C-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: C-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-ABCs-of-Death.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-ABCs-of-Death.jpg\" alt=\"The ABCs of Death\" title=\"The ABCs of Death\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-118390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-ABCs-of-Death.jpg 545w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/The-ABCs-of-Death-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: The ABCs of Death Producers: Ant Timpson and Tim League \/\/ Directors: Various Horror has always been a popular format for anthologizing, both because of its DIY roots and the fact that certain kernels of elemental\u00a0discomfort often don&#8217;t quite rise to the merits of a full-length story or movie. 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