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Review - The ABC's of Death

Every once in a while a movie comes along and the premise is brilliant.  That doesn't always spell success, but usually when you have an idea like the one posed to directors in this movie, you'd think it would be at least a minimal success. Well minimal is the key word. 

The ABC's of Death is a collection of 26 vignettes directed by some up and coming names in the horror business.  Each one was given a different letter of the alphabet and told to make a movie.  In case you want to see the movies, I don't want to give away the titles, because that is part of the allure of the movie.  The secret words, while in alphabetical order, aren't revealed until after the short is finished. This is actually quite effective, because it makes the viewer think about the word a bit while watching.

For brevity's sake, I'll break down the scores and the number of films that received that score.

1- 11, 2- 3, 3- 2, 4- 5, 5- 1, 6- 2, 7- 0, 8- 0, 9- 1, 10- 1
As you can see the list is very bottom heavy, with an average score of 3. That being said, it is worth seeing for the first four segments, which I had averaging over 7, including a 9 & 10.  One has every single aspect of horror and suspense wrapped into five minutes and the other is just a brilliant reversal of what you think is going to happen from start to finish.  The two sixes are the first segment which is just somewhat shocking and a very sexual towards the middle, which is so visually stimulating I gave it credit for that, even while the idea is lacking and the horror aspect of it, a little bothersome.

Overall the movie is pretty terrible, but if you get a chance to see A, B, D and O, you'll be pleasantly surprised.  Especially B&D.

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