ABCs of Death 2

ABCs of Death 2

Theatrical release poster
Produced by Ant Timpson
Tim League
Music by Various composers
Cinematography Various cinematographers
Edited by Various editors
Production
company
Distributed by Magnet Releasing
Release dates
  • September 18, 2014 (Fantastic Fest)
Running time
 124 minutes
Country 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.

List of segments and directors

An amateur hitman is given a contract to assassinate a drug dealer. He sneaks through the air vents with the plan to enter the room and assassinate all the targets. On his way through the vents, he accidentally stabs himself in the hand and later through the cheek, causing him to die of blood loss. Later, the drug dealer complains of the foul odors filling the room (caused by the corpse, which has already decomposed and is festering with maggots). A servant pulls the hitman's corpse out of the air vent and lands on top of him, causing the silencer equipped pistol to fire and kill the drug dealer while the prostitute he is with screams in horror.

A rude, narcissistic wildlife documentary director is documenting the endangerment of badgers caused by a local power plant nearby. His crew later discover a badger mutated by radiation which devours some of the equipment. The director, while berating his colleagues who try to inform of the discovery, is caught by the badger and violently torn in half. His upper half then utters "Cut..." before he dies.

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. The man tries to reason with the locals, proclaiming his innocence and suggesting they call the police to deal with the matter. The locals promise to call the police if he confesses or face execution if he does otherwise. After confessing, however, the locals plan to execute him. Later, it is revealed that the girl had in fact ran away with her 26 year old boyfriend, the latter who is arrested. Discovering their mistake, two men attempt to stop the execution, only to later die in a car accident. The execution then takes place by beheading, who fail on the first several attempts and finish the deed after the final swing.

A stop-motion animated short about a large bug that helps an executed man get revenge on his killers.

Two castaways have their friendship tested when a beautiful woman washes ashore. A struggle then ensues in which the two castaways come close to killing each other. However, they quickly decide on killing the woman who washed ashore to instead focus on having the rescue team they are trying to contact send beer instead of help.

An Israeli female paratrooper is caught in a tree after jumping from a plane and is hanging by her parachute. An Arab boy discovers her hanging there and aims his rifle at her to kill her. She strikes up a conversation and convinces him to cut her down from the tree instead of killing her by using reverse psychology. When he cuts her down she falls and breaks her leg and, despite the horrible pain, tries to run away. As the Arab boy jumps out of the tree in hot pursuit, his rifle falls off him, hits the ground, and discharges a round into his chest. As the paratrooper runs over to help the boy, a pickup truck pulls up filled with armed Arab militia. The final shot is the paratrooper looking at the men approaching her, finally aware of her grim fate.

A rude young man who has been living with grandfather for a year is exasperated by his grandfathers taste in retro decorations and living. After mumbling to himself that his grandfather is a wanker, his grandfather jumps out of his mattress which he had been unknowingly sleeping in for months. The grandfather is dressed like the grandson and is even imitating some of his mannerisms. After backing his grandson into a corner, he kills his grandson with a mollusk opening ring. As all the blood is draining out of the grandson's neck, the grandfather reveals that he can't "wank" because he had his penis removed.

A man and woman kiss, which turns into a surreal power struggle.

A family tries to kill the matriarch for her inheritance (which is composed of an ornate stone that makes its host immortal, along with cash and a beach house). After trying two unconventional methods (burning and decapitating), the matriarch spits the stone into her daughter's mouth, much to the family's dismay.

A corrupt wealthy man has been spying on his gay son and his son's lover. After killing his son's partner, two religious men kidnap and torture the young man. An undead spirit of the deceased lover then kills the two priests and tattoos the words "Love is Law" on the man's arm.

A woman experiences the effects of a black liquid that turns people into killers.

A ritual sacrifice goes horribly wrong after the sacrifice accidentally results in the summoning a demonic creature that attacks and kills several villagers before dying after the chief shoots it with an arrow.

A man with strange looking eyes runs in his underwear down a street in slow motion while knocking down several passerbys. He then attempts to eat someone, and is shot by police. It's revealed that he did bath salts 34 minutes earlier.

A man hurries to meet his girlfriend on Halloween. As he arrives, a cab hits him and he dies.

A woman is sentenced to death by a courtroom full of sentinent zombies who regained their intelligence via a vaccination that reverses the negative impacts of the zombie virus. After her execution, the sentinent zombies accidentally create a more feral version of the zombies.

An homage to black and white comedy in which three prisoners encounter a strange man and a baby.

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.

Two men and a woman play Russian roulette while hidden in a basement. As the losing man goes to pull the trigger, knowing he will die, he instead kills the woman (his wife). It is then revealed that zombie-like creatures the three people are hiding from heard the gunshot and are closing in; the man killed his wife to have mercy on her.

A woman is attacked in her home while on the phone with her husband. After the intruder kills the wife, she reveals herself to be the wife of a man whom the husband is having an affair with and, picking up the dead wife's phone, demands to speak to her husband.

A woman (Tristan Risk) is treated misogynistically at an audition, but when asked to strip, reveals tentacles where her vagina should be. She transforms into a witch and, in bloody retribution, her tentacles rape the men who were auditioning her.

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.

Two men are killed by a prostitute and a daughter they hired while on the phone with one man's girlfriend.

Two kids wish themselves into a fantasy world, only to be violently taken prisoner by the villain. The first is killed by the villain Zorb while the other escapes with Fantasy Man, who mistakes the surviving boy for a princess.

A babysitter (Béatrice Dalle) is emotionally affected by a child's xylophone playing and brutally murders the child, then turns the child's body into a macabre version of a xylophone when the parents arrive.

A young girl violently fantasizes about the deaths of her abusive, negligent family.

A pregnant woman has been staving off birth for 13 years and living with a 13-year-old inside her stomach after her husband left years ago and has been reduced to living in a filthy, decaying home while hunting animals for sustenance. After the mother runs out of her birth-delaying root, the child then proceeds to make more room for itself by killing and disemboweling the mother. The child then proceeds to wear the mother's skin. The husband then returns and suggests conceiving a new child after being told by the mother (not realizing that it is not actually her) that the child was aborted.

In a post-credits scene directed by Jill Sixx Gevargizian, Laurence R. Harvey attempts to masturbate while watching the T segment, but stops saying "How am I supposed to wank to that?"

References

  1. ↑ Rachel Abrams (May 5, 2013). "Cannes: ‘ABCs of Death’ Gets Sequel". Variety. Retrieved October 5, 2014.

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