Line #184 Film/ABCsOfDeath2


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2	A first sequel to 2012 anthology horror film ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath''. Like the first film, it consists of 26 shorts, directed by filmmakers from around the world, and each named for a letter of the alphabet and dealing with the subject of death. The title of each segment is only shown after it has ended, providing a guessing game for the viewer as to what word the short's designated letter stands for.
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8	[[folder:A is for Amateur]]
9	->From the USA\
10	Directed by E.L. Katz (''Film/CheapThrills'')
11
12	A hitman has been tasked with assassinating a notorious drug dealer and his gang. He imagines sneaking into the dealer's penthouse by crawling through the air ducts, managing to get all his targets caught off guard. Unfortunately, when he tries putting his plan into action, reality sets in in the worst possible way.
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14	* AirVentPassageway: The assassin imagines crawling through the air vents in classic movie fashion. In reality, he finds that the vent is cramped, dirty, vermin-infested, and filled with sharp points. He ultimately gets himself stuck in there and ends up bleeding out, his corpse being discovered ''three weeks later''.
15	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The hitman gets himself killed in the air vents, but his target is killed by a bullet from the dead man's gun.]]
16	* BlackComedy: Some dark humor can be found in the hitman managing to kill his target posthumously.
17	* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the AirVentPassageway trope, as the assassin shows how travelling through air ducts is a sure way to get one's self harmed or even killed.
18	* DidntThinkThisThrough: The hitman imagines himself flawlessly using an AirVentPassageway to get the drop on the dealer, only to learn the hard way that a person can't actually fit inside an air vent without getting stuck.
19	* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The drug dealer masturbates to a film where a pair of girls make out.
20	* GoneHorriblyRight: The hitman dies from blood loss while crawling through air vents, but the drug dealer still ends up killed, since the hitman's gun goes off and shoots him when his corpse falls from the vents.
21	* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: The assassin manages to complete his assignment when his corpse falls out of the air duct. [[spoiler:His gun goes off when it hits the floor, shooting the drug dealer in the neck.]]
22	* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: It is, in fact, ''very'' difficult to attempt an AirVentPassageway crawl, if not outright dangerous, as the assassin finds out the hard way.
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25	[[folder:B is for Badger]]
26	->From the UK\
27	Directed by Julian Barrett (''Series/TheMightyBoosh'')
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29	Peter Toland (played by Barrett himself) is a narcissistic filmmaker who berates his crew while trying to film his latest project. The project happens to be a wildlife documentary about badgers that have been potentially endangered by the waste produced by a local power plant.
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31	* BadOlBadger: There are no badgers actually seen, but at least one of them is implied to have mutated into a giant, man-eating beast after exposure to the power plant's waste.
32	* BloodyHilarious: There is a lot of bloody violence in this segment, and it's largely played for laughs.
33	* FoundFootage: Justified, since Peter is trying to put on a respectable documentary.
34	* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: After Peter is dragged into the mutated badger's sett, he is shot back out torn in half.
35	* KillerRabbit: The unseen, mutated badger. Badgers can be dangerous in reality, but not to this extent.
36	* PrimaDonnaDirector: Peter acts condescending and arrogant to his crew as he tries to call the shots.
37	[[/folder]]
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39	[[folder:C is for Capital Punishment]]
40	->From the UK\
41	Directed by Julian Gilbey (''Film/ALonelyPlaceToDie'')
42
43	The citizens of a small town have overheard the case of Fletcher Powell, a man who supposedly kidnapped and murdered the teenage Lucy Wilson. Forming themselves into a kangaroo court, they call for his immediate execution. Fletcher tries to proclaim his innocence and suggests that they just call the police, to which the locals promise to call the police if he confesses. After confessing, however, the locals plan to kill Fletcher anyway, but once two of them learn the truth about his innocence, they race to stop the execution.
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45	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Fletcher is given a slow and agonizing death, and it turns out that he was innocent all along.]]
46	* FailureHero: A pair of men in the local pub are given word that Lucy is still alive, so they race to stop Fletcher's execution. Their reckless driving only leads them to slam into a tree and die.
47	* FromBadToWorse: Oh boy, where do we begin? For starters, Fletcher confesses his innocence, but the townspeople still give him the death penalty. On the way to the forest where the execution is scheduled to take place, Lucy turns out to be alive. Discovering their mistake, two men attempt to stop the execution, only to die in a car accident. Fletcher's execution is then performed by beheading, but it fails several times, leaving him in agonizing pain.
48	* KangarooCourt: Fletcher is sentenced to death by a "court" of locals who have absolutely no authority to do so, which he even explains to them point-blank. The "jurors" are even identified in the credits as "The Kangaroo Court".
49	* KarmaHoudini: The "court" that executes Fletcher gets no comeuppance for slowly and gruesomely murdering a wrongfully accused man.
50	* OffWithHisHead: Fletcher's death comes from his head slowly being chopped off by an axe.
51	* PaedoHunt: The teenage Lucy is said to have been missing because she ran away with a 26-year-old man who claimed to be her boyfriend.
52	[[/folder]]
53
54	[[folder:D is for Deloused]]
55	->From the UK\
56	Directed by Robert Morgan (''Film/StopMotion'')
57
58	In a stop-motion animated segment, a man is held prisoner and killed by a trio of fleshy ghouls. A giant, demonic insect soon appears in the cell and creates an identical clone of the murdered man, allowing him to get revenge on his ghoulish killers. The only stipulation is that the insect insists the victim "pays" for his new life.
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60	* AnimalisticAbomination: The giant louse only barely resembles the regular louse it crawls out of.
61	* ArcWords: "You pay for life", which is spoken throughout the segment.
62	* AssShove: The man "pays for life" by shoving the [[spoiler:decapitated heads of his captors]] inside the demonic louse's asshole, where it devours them.
63	* BodyHorror: This segment features rather gruesome mutilations of the human body, combined with some really disturbing FacialHorror. Not to mention the the demonic louse.
64	* DerangedAnimation: The segment's animation is often compared to a Music/{{Tool}} video, with a touch of Creator/DavidFirth.
65	* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The man's second body/soul is forced to watch his mortal head being eaten by the louse, then sees his now-decayed head spitefully crushed underfoot by one of his reanimated captors as the insect goes back to Hell.]] [[SurrealHorror Or something like that.]]
66	* OffWithHisHead: The executioners die of decapitation, but they briefly reanimate.
67	* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The demonic insect helps the murdered man get his revenge, rather forcibly so.
68	* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: The man is first seen strapped to an operating table, waiting for his killers to arrive.
69	* TragicMistake: After disposing of his killers, the man gets his head stuck inside the insect's anus when trying to push one of the decapitated heads that refused to budge, leading to his second death.
70	* TheUnintelligible: Every character speaks in indecipherable roars and gibbering. The only voice we hear in the entire short is the demonic bug.
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73	[[folder:E is for Equilibrium]]
74	->From Cuba\
75	Directed by Alejandro Brugués (''Film/JuanOfTheDead'')
76
77	Two castaways on a deserted island live a life free of cares or excitement. That soon changes when a beautiful woman washes up on the shores of the island and grows attracted to one of the castaways, putting their friendship in jeopardy.
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79	* BittersweetEnding: The man who the woman falls in love with chooses his friend over her. So he kills her with a coconut and the two men continue living happily on the island.
80	* CoconutMeetsCranium: The woman is killed when one the men throws a coconut directly at her head.
81	* DesertedIsland: The segment is set on an island inhabited by two castaways, whose friendship is put at risk when a woman washes up on the beach.
82	* FaintInShock: The woman immediately passes out when she realizes she's washed up on an island. Right after she regains consciousness, in fact.
83	* GreenEyedMonster: The woman inspires jealousy in one of the men.
84	* LoveTriangle: The castaways start fighting over the affections of the woman.
85	* MadeOfPlasticine: The woman is somehow killed instantly by [[spoiler:a coconut to the forehead.]]
86	* ShoutOut: A replica of [[Film/CastAway Wilson the volleyball]] makes a brief appearance.
87	* TakeAThirdOption: One castaway decides to kill the woman by throwing a coconut at her head, choosing to save his friendship with the other.
88	[[/folder]]
89
90	[[folder:F is for Falling]]
91	->From Israel\
92	Directed by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (''Film/BigBadWolves'')
93
94	After a bungled dive, an Israeli paratrooper gets stuck in a tree by her parachute. A teenage Arab boy discovers her and, recognizing her to be from an enemy nation, threatens to kill her with his rifle. The paratrooper tries to reason with the boy and pleads for him to cut her loose, but the boy has his doubts.
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96	* DownerEnding: At the very end of the segment, the Israeli soldier looks up to see [[BolivianArmyEnding the Arabian boy's reinforcements arriving and pointing their weapons at her]] as she kneels over the boy's dead body, no doubt jumping to conclusions and planning to shoot her dead.
97	* MadeOfPlasticine: The paratrooper's leg badly breaks, to the point where bone bursts right through the skin, from a 2-3 foot fall. Israel must have a dairy shortage.
98	* ParachuteInATree: The Israeli paratrooper starts the segment dangling from a tree by her parachute.
99	* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: [[spoiler:The Arab teen is killed when his rifle, which he drops from the tree, goes off and shoots him.]]
100	* ReversePsychology: The Israeli uses this to trick the Arab boy into letting her go instead of killing her, getting into his head about having him take all the credit for her capture.
101	* WarIsHell: The segment clearly shows war in a negative light.
102	[[/folder]]
103
104	[[folder:G is for Granddad]]
105	->From the UK\
106	Directed by Jim Hosking (''Film/TheGreasyStrangler'')
107
108	A rude and impatient young man has been living with his grandfather for the past year, and is exasperated by his grandfather's retro taste and style. As he lays down in his bed that night, the man discovers a dark secret regarding his granddad.
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110	* BerserkButton: The grandfather can't stand being called a "wanker" [[spoiler:because he doesn't have a penis]].
111	* DisproportionateRetribution: The grandfather acts so rotten and ultimately stabs his grandson to death because he has no penis.
112	* EvilOldFolks: The grandfather, whose grandson lives with him. Of course, the grandson [[AssholeVictim isn't a saint himself]].
113	* GenerationXerox: The grandson and his grandad are almost completely identical. Both in appearance and demeanor.
114	* ItTastesLikeFeet: The grandson insults his grandfather's cognac by claiming he's had "wee-wees" that have tasted better.
115	* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler:The grandfather ends up stabbing his grandchild in the neck, leaving him to bleed to death.]]
116	[[/folder]]
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118	[[folder:H is for Head Games]]
119	->From the USA\
120	Directed by Creator/BillPlympton
121
122	In a hand-drawn animated segment, a man and woman engaging in a passionate kiss suddenly have their faces turn into various weapons, leading to a very surreal power struggle.
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124	* CallBack: To Plympton's earlier works about kissing.
125	* PyrrhicVictory: Subverted. [[spoiler:The war results in the couples' heads being reduced to empty holes.]]
126	* SurrealHumor: It's a Bill Plympton short, so of course there'd be absurd and surreal visuals for comedic purposes.
127	[[/folder]]
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129	[[folder:I is for Invincible]]
130	->From the Philippines\
131	Directed by Erik Matti (''Film/OnTheJob'', ''Film/BuyBust'').
132
133	A family tries to kill their matriarch for their inheritance. Their struggles are in vain, thanks to the fact that the matriarch possesses an ornate stone that makes its current host immortal and invulnerable.
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135	* TheAgeless: Thanks to the stone, the matriarch is 120 years old, and doesn't appear to have aged as much.
136	* BigScrewedUpFamily: The one featured here tries in vain to murder their immortal matriarch for their inheritance, and the matriarch herself isn't making things easy for them.
137	* BlackComedy: The mortal injuries the matriarch survives are all played for dark laughs.
138	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Somewhat subverted. The youngest of the siblings, Carmela, ends up swallowing the stone and finally killing the matriarch. But as her siblings prepare to set up the funeral and divvy their inheritance, Carmela appears to be choking on the stone. So if she does live forever, she may end up in a permanent state of agony.
139	* ImmortalityInducer: The matriarch's stone enables whoever wields it to live forever.
140	* ManOnFire: The oldest son tries to kill his mother by setting her on fire, but she still lives.
141	* OffWithHerHead: Carmela tries to kill the matriarch by cutting off her head, but it still fails.
142	* ReusableLighterToss: The eldest son soaks his mother in gasoline and lights her up by throwing his Zippo into her lap.
143	[[/folder]]
144
145	[[folder:J is for Jesus]]
146	->From Brazil\
147	Directed by Dennison Ramalho
148
149	A wealthy businessman hires a pair of religious [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalists]] to abduct his gay son and "cleanse" him. During his torture, the son hallucinates his captors as demons, but he begins having visions of the spirit of his lover, who his captors previously killed on his father's behalf.
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151	* AbusiveParents: The gay man's father hires a pair of fundamentalists to "cleanse" his son and kill his lover, and even though his lackeys are killed, he's still at large.
152	* BringMyBrownPants: The son urinates himself as he is being threatened by his captors.
153	* BuryYourGays: The fundamentalists murdered the gay man's lover offscreen. [[spoiler:The lover's vengeful spirit gets to return the favor.]]
154	* CureYourGays: A wealthy businessman hires a pair of religious nutjobs to kidnap his gay son and exorcise his gayness.
155	* ElectricTorture: During their attempt to [[CureYourGays cure the son's gayness]], the fundamentalists take jumper cables connected to a car battery and apply them to his genitals.
156	* GayAesop: The gay man's dead lover comes back as a ghost, kills the fundamentalists who were torturing him, and tattoos the words "Love is the Law" on his soulmate's arm.
157	* KarmaHoudini: Though the men he hires to "cleanse" him are killed, the gay man's father gets away with hiring them in the first place, and he may likely just hire more.
158	* OffingTheOffspring: The gay man's father orders the fundamentalists to kidnap his son and torture him for being gay as a means to "cure" him.
159	* ReligiousHorror: The segment is directed by Dennison Ramalho, who is known for making controversial horror shorts that deal with religious fundamentalism. In this case, the fundamentalists torturing the gay man end up killed by the vengeful spirit of the man's lover, most likely as punishment for using their religious beliefs as an excuse to torture a man who they see as "wrong".
160	* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The gay man sees the fundamentalists who are torturing him as horrific, eyeless demons.
161	[[/folder]]
162
163	[[folder:K is for Knell]]
164	->From Lithuania\
165	Directed by Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (''Vanishing Waves'')
166
167	A young woman looks out her window to observe a giant, floating sphere of black liquid hovering over the apartment building across the street, causing all the residents of said building to go insane and kill each other. When the tenants stare at her from their windows, she attempts to escape as the liquid sphere makes its way to her own building.
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169	* CosmicHorrorStory: The directors have cited Creator/HPLovecraft as one of their influences for the segment.
170	* EldritchAbomination: The Sphere, a large spherical mass of black liquid hovering in the sky over the apartment complex across the way. It influences the people in that building to murder each other, then causes our protagonist to bleed profusely when it reappears outside her door.
171	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The segment begins with the woman painting her nails with black nail-polish, just before the Sphere is introduced.
172	* HatePlague: The liquid composing the Sphere induces violence and insanity in all that it approaches.
173	* RearWindowWitness: From her balcony, the woman witnesses multiple murders being committed in the apartment block opposite hers.
174	[[/folder]]
175
176	[[folder:L is for Legacy]]
177	->From Nigeria\
178	Directed by {{MediaNotes/Nollywood}} icon Lancelot Imasuen
179
180	Ogiso Owodo, a noble priest, is commanded by Queen Esaogho to ritualistically sacrifice the King's son so his harem can birth more male children. Horrified at the prospect of taking a life, especially one of the Royal Family, Ogiso instead releases him and kills a rat, bathing his sword with its blood. As a result of his bungling the ritual, Ogiso accidentally summons the demon Ubini, which attacks several villagers.
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182	* StupidSacrifice: Ogiso sacrifices a random rat instead of the King's son, as the Queen commanded. In doing this, he summons Ubini, which destroys the village.
183	[[/folder]]
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185	[[folder:M is for Masticate]]
186	->From the USA\
187	Directed by Robert Boocheck
188
189	In a segment shot mostly in [[{{Overcrank}} slow motion]], Patrick Daniel, a man with a crazed look on his face and clad only in his underwear, barrels down a city street, knocking down several bystanders and biting a random civilian's ear off.
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191	* CreatorCameo: Director Robert Boocheck plays Patrick's friend, who invited him to do the bath salts that made him go crazy.
192	* DrugsAreBad: [[spoiler:Patrick's cannibalistic rampage turns out to be the result of him snorting bath salts 34 minutes ago.]]
193	* EarAche: While high on bath salts, Patrick tackles a bystander and bites his ear off.
194	* HowWeGotHere: The final scene of the segment explains how all of this started.
195	* ImAHumanitarian: Defied. The crazed Patrick bites off a bystander's ear, prompting a nearby cop to shoot him dead.
196	* ManBitesMan: Patrick attacks the bystander he knocked down and rips his ear off with his teeth.
197	* TheReveal: [[spoiler:The final scene reveals that this whole mess started because Patrick snorted some bath salts 34 minutes earlier.]]
198	* SpreeKiller: The majority of the segment features Patrick, high out of his mind, running down a city street while indiscriminately attacking and trying to kill people.
199	[[/folder]]
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201	[[folder:N is for Nexus]]
202	->From the USA\
203	Directed by Larry Fessenden (''Film/{{Wendigo}}'')
204
205	It's Halloween in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity, and a man dressed as Frankenstein's Monster is in a hurry to meet his girlfriend, who is dressed as the Bride, for a party. Also appearing is a taxi driver too distracted with a CrosswordPuzzle to know where he's taking his latest passenger, and a young boy who is eagerly trick-or-treating with his father. All of these characters end up meeting each other in the worst situation imaginable.
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207	* {{Bookends}}: The story begins and ends with the Bride screaming.
208	* DeathOfAChild: The trick-or-treating boy is killed when Frankenstein's bike is flipped by the cab and crushes his head.
209	* DownerEnding: Frankenstein and the trick-or-treater are dead, the Bride is traumatized, and the cab driver is likely going to face a lot of legal trouble.
210	* EmpathyDollShot: After the bike crashes into the trick-or-treater, we're given a shot of his spilled candy lying in a pool of his blood.
211	* HyperlinkStory: The segment gets its name with the way its characters and their storylines are interconnected. Specifically, the taxi driver, who's too lost in his crossword puzzle to notice anything (the answer he's searching for turns out to be [[TitleDrop "Nexus"]]), accidentally hits Frankenstein with his cab and kills him. In the process, Frankenstein's bike is launched into the air and lands on the trick-or-treater's head, which gives him a fatal concussion. After witnessing the tragic accident, the boy's father weeps, the cabbie's passenger gasps in shock, and the Bride screams in horror.
212	* ShoutOut: One of the people Frankenstein passes by is wearing a fox mask from ''Film/YoureNext'', which the segment's director Larry Fessenden starred in.
213	[[/folder]]
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215	[[folder:O is for Ochlocracy (mob rule)]]
216	->From Japan\
217	Directed by Hajime Ohata (''Henge'')
218
219	After an outbreak of "Apparent Death Syndrome" swept the world, zombies have become the ruling class of society, putting human survivors of the plague on trial for their "murderous rampages". Their latest prisoner is Kana Miyazaki, who justifies her actions as self-defense even as various witnesses, notably her undead daughter Mai, condemn her for her actions.
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221	* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Kana is a deconstruction of zombie movie protagonists, as the now-sapient zombies view her as a lunatic who has killed several of their kind, seemingly proven through flashbacks of the initial outbreak. Even though she claims her actions were performed in the name of her and her daughter's safety/well-being, the zombies beg to differ, to the point where the severed head of (presumably) one of her victims screams incessantly when it is injected with Z-cu and asked if it recognizes her. Even the now-undead Mai labels her mother as a monster, claiming that she "enjoyed" killing her fellow zombies.
222	* DeconstructiveParody: Of ZombieApocalypse movies. The zombies seen here have gained intelligence and sapience due to Z-cu, a cure for the plague which created them, and they quickly condemn Kana and the other humans left alive for the slaughter of thousands of their kind.
223	* ExcrementStatement: A particularly hot-blooded zombie in the courtroom hurls shit at Kana as she pleads self-defense.
224	* HangingJudge: The judge is quick to sentence every one of his defendants to death, and never once changes his mind.
225	* JokerJury: A courtroom of thinking and reasoning zombies tries humans who 'killed' them during a zombie plague.
226	* NotHelpingYourCase: After trying to prove that her killing of the zombies was to save her and her daughter's lives, Kana hurls bigoted insults at them as she's strapped in the electric chair, not even trying to save herself anymore.
227	* OffingTheOffspring: Justified. Mai was bitten early in the outbreak, so Kana was "forced" to kill her by shooting her in the head. She's brought in as a witness for her mother's trial, claiming that she "enjoyed" the act of killing zombies indiscriminately.
228	* TheReveal: The zombies were given intelligence and sapience by Z-cu, a vaccine that reverses the negative impacts of the zombie virus, such as flesh-eating.
229	* UndeadChild: Mai, who was shot in the head after being bitten, comes back as a zombie to testify against her mother.
230	* WhatTheHellHero: Mai is called as a witness to her mother's trial, where her testimony cements her mother's fate. As she's being dragged away, Mai asks why her mother didn't even take the time to give her a proper burial.
231	* ZombieApocalypse: The segment takes place in the aftermath of one. A vaccine created to stop the zombie plague allowed the zombies to be given sapience, and from there, they became the ruling class of society, condemning humans left alive for the massacre of thousands of their kind.
232	[[/folder]]
233
234	[[folder:P is for P-P-P-P SCARY!]]
235	->From the USA\
236	Directed by Todd Rohal (''Nature Calls'')
237
238	In a comedic, black and white segment, escaped prisoners Kirby, Poppy, and Bart find themselves stuck in a void with only a man and his baby for company, and things get worse when the trio start melting into puddles.
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240	* DenserAndWackier: The segment appears to be this as a means to honor the old black and white comedies from the 1930s, but then it gets weird.
241	* DramaticStutter: The trio each have an over-the-top stutter brought on by nervousness, which is naturally PlayedForLaughs.
242	* GagNose: Kirby and Bart both have comically lengthened noses.
243	* {{Homage}}: The segment is an homage to 1930s black-and-white comedies like ''Film/TheThreeStooges''.
244	* MonstrousHumanoid: The man and baby the trio encounter in the void, given their abilities and uncanny distorting faces.
245	[[/folder]]
246
247	[[folder:Q is for Questionnaire]]
248	->From the USA\
249	Directed by documentarian Rodney Ascher (''Room 237'', a documentary about conspiracy theories surrounding ''Film/TheShining'')
250
251	A man is seen taking an intelligence-measuring test on the street, juxtaposed with footage of him getting his brain ripped out and forcibly transplanted into a gorilla's head.
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253	* AffablyEvil: The woman measuring the man's intelligence works for a sinister cabal who put his brain inside a gorilla, but she never drops her professional or pleasant demeanor during his test.
254	* TheBadGuyWins: Whoever was in charge of the test, they get away with putting the man's brain inside a gorilla. For whatever reason.
255	* BrainTransplant: The man's brain is put into the body of a gorilla.
256	[[/folder]]
257
258	[[folder:R is for Roulette]]
259	->From Austria\
260	Directed by Marvin Kren (''Blutgletscher'')
261
262	Three people, married couple Michael and Nina, along with their friend Klaus, are seen sitting in a basement, passing the time with a game of Russian Roulette. The trio soon start getting paranoid and distrustful of one another as the bullet count gets lower and lower.
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264	* GenreShift: The segment starts out like a period piece set during World War II. The ending reveals that it's set during a zombie apocalypse.
265	* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Once Michael realizes he's the loser, he shoots Nina instead of himself, doing so to keep her from getting eaten by the zombies just outside their door.]]
266	* RussianRoulette: It's right there in the title. This version plays differently, as [[spoiler:Michael ends up using the last bullet to kill Nina, to spare her from a possibly worse fate]].
267	* ZombieApocalypse: The segment is revealed to be set during one, as the audience can hear the sounds of the dead through the basement door.
268	[[/folder]]
269
270	[[folder:S is for Split]]
271	->From Spain, spoken in English\
272	Directed by Juan Martinez Moreno
273
274	In a segment shown entirely through a SplitScreen format, an intruder breaks into Miriam Walters' house and attacks her and her baby while her husband Robert is away in France. Why exactly the intruder does this remains to be seen.
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276	* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:We don't know if she ends up being arrested or not, but the wife of Robert's lover succeeds in killing Miriam and his child.]]
277	* BludgeonedToDeath: The intruder uses a hammer to murder Miriam and her child.
278	* BuryYourGays: Inverted. Robert is having a gay affair with the intruder's husband, but the lover's wife kills his wife and infant child instead.
279	* DeathOfAChild: Robert's baby is bludgeoned to death offscreen. We see the crib being covered in blood after the deed is done.
280	* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title refers to the numerous splitscreens used to display the segment, and [[spoiler:the revelation of Robert's gay affair with the intruder's husband]].
281	* {{Homage}}: The segment is one to the early works of Creator/BrianDePalma.
282	* RearWindowWitness: Robert calls his wife from France, when an intruder breaks into their home and attacks her and his child with a hammer.
283	[[/folder]]
284
285	[[folder:T is for Torture Porn]]
286	->From Canada\
287	Directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska (''Film/AmericanMary'')
288
289	Yumi, an aspiring actress, arrives at an audition run by loathesome and misogynistic filmmakers. While preparing for a porn shoot, largely for the filmmakers to have their way with her, Yumi soon springs a little surprise on her would-be assailants.
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291	* AssholeVictim: The film crew, who are atrocious towards Yumi and women in general.
292	* DeathByIrony: After sexually harassing Yumi for their film, she breaks out her tentacles and viciously kills them, sexually assaulting them the same way they did her.
293	* HeManWomanHater: The men at Yumi's audition are disgustingly misogynist.
294	* HumanoidAbomination: Yumi is largely humanoid, but she has black eyes with blue pupils, a VoiceOfTheLegion, and a collection of penis-like tentacles protruding from her crotch. She uses these to kill the men when they molest her for their "shoot".
295	* TheStinger: Audio from this segment is used for a short clip at the very end of the film itself, where a man masturbating to the segment quickly finds himself turned off.
296	[[/folder]]
297
298	[[folder:U is for Utopia]]
299	->From Canada\
300	Directed by Creator/VincenzoNatali
301
302	In a futuristic world where everyone is happy, beautiful, and overall perfect, a homely, balding, slightly overweight man begins getting suspicious when everyone stops what they're doing and stares at him. And for good reason...
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304	* ArcSymbol: The letter "U", which acts as the society's logo, is seen plastered on every article of clothing, every object, and every piece of machinery.
305	* CrapsaccharineWorld: The segment's futuristic world is happy and prosperous, but all those who aren't like everyone else in appearance are eradicated.
306	* KillItWithFire: All "sub-norm" beings, like our unfortunate protagonist, are cremated on the spot.
307	* MurderByCremation: A mobile unit that travels around looking for "sub-norms" kills them by cremating them alive.
308	* PublicExecution: As seen with our protagonist, anyone who's seen as ugly or just doesn't live up the world's standards of beauty is killed in broad daylight.
309	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Children eagerly watch and applaud as the protagonist is roasted alive.
310	* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The titular "utopia" sees ugly people as a flaw that need to be wiped out so that only beautiful people exist.
311	[[/folder]]
312
313	[[folder:V is for Vacation]]
314	->From Canada\
315	Directed by Jerome Sable (''Stage Fright'')
316
317	In a FoundFootage segment, Curt video chats with his girlfriend Amber while he and his best friend Dylan are on vacation overseas. When Dylan awakens, he swipes the phone to reveal that he and Curt went on a wild booze and drug-fueled binge and have hooked up with Kim and Rose, a mother/daughter pair of prostitutes, driving Amber to tears. Things only get worse when the prostitutes wake up.
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319	* ChekhovsGun: Dylan tells Amber about how Rose did some kind of sexual act with a screwdriver. She later uses the same screwdriver to kill him.
320	* TheDogBitesBack: Rose stabs Dylan and throws Curt off the balcony, all while a horrified Amber can do nothing but watch.
321	* FoundFootage: The segment is shot through a video chat between Curt and Amber.
322	* MamaBear: Rose promptly kills Dylan and Curt when the latter aggresively smacks her daughter.
323	* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Deconstructed. Curt's sleazy best friend Dylan shows Amber what her boyfriend was up to last night, prompting Curt to try and stop him from showing Amber his dark side.
324	[[/folder]]
325
326	[[folder:W is for Wish]]
327	->From Canada\
328	Directed by Steven Kostanski (''Film/{{Manborg}}''), the special effect artist from Canadian filmmaking team Creator/{{Astron6}}.
329
330	In a parody of 80s toylines, the segment appears to be a commercial for the ''Champions of Zorb'' line of action figures. A pair of young boys playing with the action figures wish that they could help the main characters, Prince Casio and Fantasy Man, win their war against the nefarious Zorb. The wish is randomly granted, and the boys are transported to the fantasy world of Zorb, where the war is a lot more real... and a lot more bloody.
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332	* AndIMustScream: Oddly implied. As one of the boys rides an elevator to be taken to Zorb's throne room, he witnesses prisoners undergoing ColdBloodedTorture, one of which involves a living skeleton about to be branded. This might cross into FridgeHorror though, [[spoiler:considering the boy's friend was burnt to a crisp offscreen and he could possibly be next in line.]]
333	* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: As the title suggests, the boys learn that wishing to be in the world of their favorite action figures was a ''HUGE'' mistake. The world of Zorb ends up being a MAJOR CrapsackWorld with [[TheBadGuyWins the evil Zorb winning the fictional war]]. As it later shows, [[WouldHurtAChild not even children are safe here.]]
334	* CreatorCameo: The Soska sisters appear as twins ripping out the heart of a POW, played by [[Creator/DavidCronenberg David Cronenberg's]] son Brandon.
335	* CreepyGood: Fantasy Man either fits this trope or EvilOldFolks, depending on how one interprets his intentions with the boy he "rescues".
336	* DeathOfAChild: One of the kids is killed by Zorb while the other is abducted by Fantasy Man, who mistakes him for a princess.
337	* DeconstructiveParody: The segment is a deconstructive parody of children's toys commercials, demonstrating how children actually fighting alongside the heroes would realistically play out.
338	* DirtyCoward: Prince Casio is revealed to be one in the actual realm of Zorb, even pushing the boys down so [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he can flee the massacre]].
339	* EldritchAbomination: Underneath his helmet, we see that Zorb has tentacles protruding from his face.
340	* OneManArmy: Defied. Zorb's army wins because they have strength in numbers.
341	* SubvertedKidsShow: The segment is a dark parody of typical children's toy commercials, where it ends '''very''' badly for the kids who wished to fight alongside their hero.
342	* TrappedInTVLand: Two boys find themselves trapped in the world of Zorb, based on the ads of their favourite action figures.
343	* WarIsHell: This segment shows the downsides of warfare in a kid's commercial.
344	* WhamShot: As Fantasy Man rides off with his "princess," the camera pans to a discarded sack similar to the one Fantasy Man imprisoned the boy in... which is filled with children's skulls. Fantasy Man very likely has some ''very'' bad ideas in mind for the child he "rescued."
345	[[/folder]]
346
347	[[folder:X is for Xylophone]]
348	->From France\
349	Directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (''Film/Inside2007'')
350
351	An old woman tries listening to a record while her granddaughter bangs and clangs on a xylophone. It gets to the point where the old woman does something rather extreme about the noise problem.
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353	* BodyHorror: The granddaughter's body is turned into a horrific mockery of her xylophone.
354	* DeathOfAChild: The grandmother brutally murders her grandchild and turns her body into a gory xylophone.
355	* DisproportionateRetribution: The old woman kills her grandchild and turns her into a xylophone because the noise she was making kept her from listening to her record.
356	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: This is written on the grandmother's face when she snaps out of her manic state, tearfully staring up at the parents whose kid she murdered.
357	* XylophonesForWalkingBones: After the old woman murders her granddaughter, she turns the body into a gory mockery of a xylophone, playing notes on her rib bones.
358	[[/folder]]
359
360	[[folder:Y is for Youth]]
361	->From Japan\
362	Directed by makeup artist Soichi Umezawa in his directorial debut
363
364	Teenage Miyuki narrates a letter she's writing to her parents. The letter goes into detail about how they neglect and/or abuse her, which is demonstrated with how she imagines her problems regarding them physically manifesting to kill them on her orders.
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366	* AbusiveParents: Miyuki's monologue lists the many bad things her parents have done to her, like her stepfather neglecting to take care of her dog, her mother only giving her junk food for her school lunches, and her mother molesting her when her stepfather wasn't in the mood for sex.
367	* AllWomenAreLustful: Miyuki's mother, who she attributes much of her neglect to being distracted by lust since her husband died, and her stepfather isn't interested in sex. She also implies that her mother has molested her during her worst fits of horniness.
368	* CallingTheOldManOut: Miyuki's letter does this to both her mother and her stepfather, and the end of the segment makes it look like she's going to physically attack them.
369	* FlippingTheBird: Miyuki ends up having a giant hand flipping the bird protrude from her crotch.
370	* HumiliationConga: Miyuki's parents end up going through bloody ones in their daughter's fantasies.
371	* PowerFantasy: Miyuki fantasizes about using RealityWarping abilities to inflict horrific transformations and punishments upon her abusive/neglectful mother and stepfather.
372	[[/folder]]
373
374	[[folder:Z is for Zygote]]
375	->From Canada\
376	Directed by Chris Nash
377
378	A pregnant woman is left behind in her rustic cabin home while her husband goes off in search of "Portlock root" to prevent the child from being born. 13 years soon pass, and the child has continued to grow all that time, able to speak to her from within her uterus. The child also wants to finally be born, and isn't above using force to finally enter the world.
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380	* AffablyEvil: The child continues being calm and polite towards their mother as they force her organs and bones out through her mouth and wear her skin.
381	* AmbiguousGender: Because the child hasn't been born, neither they nor their mother know what their gender is. Their voice is also ambiguous, being high enough to either be a young girl, or a boy whose voice hasn't deepened yet.
382	* AndIMustScream: Subverted. The child really wants to come out of their mother's womb, but they're not particularly tormented by it.
383	* DeathByChildbirth: A particularly morbid example. [[spoiler:The mother runs out of Portlock root, at which point the child makes room for itself by killing and disemboweling the mother from the inside. By the end of the segment, the child wears its mother's skin.]]
384	* DressHitsFloor: The last shot is of the mother's dress landing at her feet as the father undresses her. [[spoiler:Considering he's about to unknowingly have sex with his own child in his wife's skin, the effect is more horrific than sexy.]]
385	* ExactWords: The child promises that they won't leave their mother alone, and manages to live up to that promise without being born: they remove her bones and organs through her mouth and wear her skin.
386	* HereWeGoAgain: The father abruptly returns at the end, where the child, in his wife's skin, claims she miscarried and had to cut the fetus out of her. The father isn't bothered and simply says they'll try again as he begins undressing her.
387	* LongestPregnancyEver: Portlock root can be used to suspend or delay the birthing process, and the mother's ample supply has allowed her to stave off birthing her child for ''13 years''.
388	* MyBelovedSmother: The woman refuses to birth the baby because she doesn't want to be left alone without her husband.
389	* PleaseDontLeaveMe: The woman's husband leaves the house for more Portlock root, and she has to stave off the birth alone with a years-long supply of the stuff until he returns.
390	* SurpriseIncest: At the end the segment, the husband is about to take his "wife" to bed to make another baby after she tells him that she lost the child she was carrying. What he doesn't know is that he's about to make love to his own child, who took over the mother's body and is wearing her skin.
391	* WellIntentionedExtremist: All the child want is to be born, and they don't want to keep causing their mother any physical pain. Despite this, they disembowel her from the inside out and wear her skin to finally get a "proper" life.
392	[[/folder]]

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