A 26-chapter anthology that showcases death in all its vicious wonder and brutal beauty.
If this compendium of 26 short films about death is anything to go by then horror cinema is in a moribund state.
Twenty-six horror directors concoct a death for each letter of the alphabet - but there's not much intentional fun here.
Adam Wingard's Quack takes an admirably deadpan approach to the challenge of making a horror film about death that starts with the letter "Q" but many of the rest of the entries are duds.
Animal lovers will be particularly offended by some tales in this mind-numbing marathon.
An interesting idea, but with so many cooks involved, the broth isn't quite good enough.
The fans will love. The faint-hearted won't.
Collectively they become rather tedious, not so much a satisfying meal as a platter (or splatter) of gores d'oeuvres.
Directors Lee Hardcastle and Jake West on horror anthology The ABCs of Death
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