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6	A 2012 anthology horror/black comedy film consisting of 26 shorts, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 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	A sequel,'' Film/ABCsOfDeath2'' was released September 18, 2014, with 26 brand new shorts. One of them (the letter M) was by amateur filmmakers, chosen in the [[http://26th.abcsofdeathpart2.com/entry/m-is-for-movie-2/ 26th Director competition]]. A second sequel consisting only of rejected "M" entries, ''[=ABCs=] of Death 2.5'', was released in 2016.
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10	''T is for Toilet'', one of the shorts from the first film, received a sequel called ''[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=a8-pdwEhTBo Ghost Burger]]'' that was released in parts between 2013 and 2014 on director Lee Hardcastle's Youtube channel.
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12	!!Tropes:
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15	[[folder:General]]
16	* BlackComedy: A few of the segments segue into horror-comedy territory.
17	* ColorMotif: Each segment is bookended with a zoom in or out from something red.
18	* DroneOfDread: The closing credits cleverly uses heavily reverberated audio from each short when the respective short's credits are on screen, starting from “I is for Ingrown”. The result is a haunting ambient piece that makes up most of the credits.
19	* GenreShift: The whole point of the film, showcasing the various kinds of horror from different parts of the world through different visual mediums.
20	* {{Gorn}}: There is a lot of explicit and bloody violence in many of the shorts.
21	* GratuitousJapanese: "J is for Jidai-geki (Samurai Movie)" and "Z is for Zetsumetsu (Extinction)" are named in Japanese, both because both shorts are directed by Japanese directors, and because there are very few words in English that start with these letters.
22	* ImprobableInfantSurvival:
23	** Played straight in "B is for Bigfoot" and "Y is for Youngbuck", where the children present do not get killed.
24	** Averted in "M is for Miscarriage", "P is for Pressure" (where [[spoiler:the main character crushes a kitten's head beneath her heel)]], and [[spoiler:"T is for Toilet" (where the young boy gets his head crushed while using the toilet)]].
25	** Double subverted in "V is for Vagitus (The Cry of a Newborn Baby)", in which a psychic baby [[spoiler: is decapitated, but kept alive as a disembodied head and able to avenge itself because of its powers.]]
26	* MoodWhiplash: To give you a fair idea, "I is for Ingrown" is a depressing segment about [[spoiler:a woman whose husband injects her with motor oil and leaves her to and [[DyingAlone die alone]] in a bathtub]]. The segment afterwards, "J is for Jidai-geki (Samurai Movie)" is about a samurai warrior who can't execute another warrior because he keeps making hilarious faces.
27	* NobodyPoops: Averted in "K is for Klutz", "R is for Removed", and "T is for Toilet". The "K" segment has a woman get killed while trying to get rid of her own bowel movement, the "R" segment features a doctor getting his face shoved into a full bedpan, and the "T" segment is about a boy being toilet trained.
28	* RedHerring / RedHerringTwist: Seeing as each short's name is revealed only at the end, several segments feature a plot element that just so happens to start with the letter the short is named after. The short is never named after said element. One example would be "Z is for Zetsumetsu (Extinction)", which never features an extinction.
29	* ShowWithinAShow: "Q is for Quack" and "W is for WTF" are about the real life crew members trying to figure out what to do for their segments for this very film.
30	* SilenceIsGolden: A majority of segments have minimal-to-no dialogue. In particular, the “G”, “M”, “O”, “P”, “R”, and “Y” segments are entirely dialogue-free.
31	* SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror: The movie alternates bleak, highly disturbing segments (such as a woman being left to die in "I is for Ingrown", men being impaled through the ass for not masturbating to some sick shit in "L is for Libido", and an obese woman skinning herself in "X is for XXL") with stories about [[ToiletHumor farting and pooping]], although the short dealing with a [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever man-eating toilet]] manages to be rather scary and funny at the same time.
32	* ToiletHumour:
33	** "F" and "T" stand for "fart" and "toilet".
34	** Also "K is for Klutz," which is all about a woman using the toilet and trying to flush a pile of crap down said toilet.
35	* VomitIndiscretionShot: Several shorts have people throwing up on-camera, often in extreme close-up.
36	* TheXOfY: ''The [=ABCs=] of Death''
37	[[/folder]]
38
39	[[folder:A is for Apocalypse]]
40	->From Spain\
41	Written and directed by Nacho Vigalondo (''Film/{{Colossal}}'')
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43	A woman desperately tries to kill her husband to spare him from the end of the world, but he proves to be more durable than she thinks.
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45	* FryingPanOfDoom: The woman attacks her bedridden husband with one, splashing him with scalding hot grease and then trying to bash his head in. [[spoiler: She had meant for him to die from poisoning long before then, but she ran out of time. The title is then revealed to be "A is for Apocalypse", implying that this was a failed MercyKill.]]
46	* MadeOfIron: The husband survives being poisoned, stabbed repeatedly (including having the knife shoved through his neck and left there), having scalding grease thrown in his face, and being battered repeatedly with a FryingPanOfDoom.
47	* MercyKill: [[spoiler:The title reveals that the woman trying to kill her husband was doing so to protect him from the apocalypse. Unfortunately for the both of them, the husband turns out to be way too resilient for his own good]].
48	* NothingIsScarier: We never know what the titular apocalypse is meant to be, as all we hear is screaming, cars crashing, and something roaring in the distance.
49	[[/folder]]
50
51	[[folder:B is for Bigfoot]]
52	->From Spain\
53	Written and directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano
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55	Little Xochitl, having trouble sleeping, is scared into doing so by her babysitter Dulce and her boyfriend Erik, who warn her that the Abominable Snowman kidnaps and kills children who stay awake after dark. The teenagers soon learn that their tale was truer than they realized.
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57	* AccidentalTruth: Dulce and Erik fabricate a story about the Abominable Snowman taking away kids who stay up at night to scare Xochitl into staying in bed. They are then killed by a completely random homeless man in the near-exact manner they described to Xochitl, who is spared when she hides under her covers and counts sheep, just as they told her to do.
58	* CrazyHomelessPeople: One of them kills Erik and Dulce with a circular saw for no given reason. The end of the short shows that he has a whited-out eye and half his face is heavily scarred.
59	* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The homeless man randomly shows up and kills Erik and Dulce for no apparent reason, leaving Xochitl alive for the same reason.
60	[[/folder]]
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62	[[folder:C is for Cycle]]
63	->From Chile\
64	Written and directed by Ernesto Diaz Espinoza (''Film/BringMeTheHeadOfTheMachineGunWoman'')
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66	After spying a puddle of blood in his yard and hearing strange noises at night, Bruno ends up getting sent back in time to the previous day, where he learns the truth about the disturbances.
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68	* {{Bookends}}: The segment begins and ends with a closeup of the puddle of Bruno's blood.
69	* DisposingOfABody: One Bruno disposes of the other's corpse by throwing it into the hole in the bushes.
70	* HereWeGoAgain: The segment ends with Bruno in the exact same place he was at the start, with the implication that he is trapped in an unending time loop (hence the title).
71	* NegativeSpaceWedgie: The hole in the bushes, which mysteriously sends Bruno back in time to the previous day.
72	* OhCrap: Bruno, once he sees his past self asleep in bed.
73	* StableTimeLoop: Bruno ends up getting sent back in time via the strange hole in his bushes, where he instigates the phenomena his past self discovers, shortly before he is killed by said past self, producing the puddle of blood he originally saw.
74	[[/folder]]
75
76	[[folder:D is for Dogfight]]
77	->From the USA\
78	Written and directed by Marcel Sarmiento (''Film/{{Deadgirl}}'')
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80	In a segment filmed entirely in slow-motion, a man is thrown into a ring and made to fight to the death against a dog, only to realize the truth about his canine opponent.
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82	* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: The trainer, who forces pet owners and their pets to fight to the death.
83	* BeastlyBloodsports: The trainer abducts dogs and then pits them in death matches against their original owners.
84	* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: The ending has the hero getting Buddy back, followed by both of them preparing to kill the trainer who kidnapped them.]]
85	* HateSink: The trainer, who runs an organization where dogs and their owners are kidnapped and subjected to TrainingFromHell, before forcing them to fight to the death.
86	* ManBitesMan: After Buddy latches onto his arm, the protagonist retaliates by sinking his teeth into the dog's throat.
87	* {{Overcrank}}: The whole segment is shot in slo-mo, to [[{{Squick}} wince-inducing effect]].
88	* TragicKeepsake: The protagonist wears Buddy's dogtags (which list him as a missing pet and provide contact information) as he battles his four-legged friend in the ring.
89	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: A very young child is seen eagerly watching the titular dogfight at some points.
90	[[/folder]]
91
92	[[folder:E is for Exterminate]]
93	->From the USA\
94	Written and directed by Creator/AngelaBettis
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96	A man discovers a pesky spider that keeps biting and spying on him throughout his week, and annoys him when it keeps evading his attempts to kill it.
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98	* EarAche: When the original spider finally dies, the horde of its newly-hatched babies erupt from the man's ear.
99	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The spider is seen crawling along the man's head while he's asleep on Sunday. The end of the segment reveals that it laid eggs inside his head, as the babies pour out of his ear.
100	* LighterAndSofter: Until the ending, this segment acts like a live-action cartoon, with a melodramatic score and a ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''-style plot.
101	* POVCam: We see things from the spider's point of view a few times, which comes with an ethereal glow and a high-pitched ringing sound.
102	* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: The spider has red and black coloration, but it's not so much "evil" as it is... well, doing what's natural for a spider.
103	* SpidersAreScary: The segment follows a man being menaced by a spider, which manages to bite him several times over the course of a week.
104	* UrbanLegend: As the ending shows, the segment follows the urban legend of spiders laying eggs inside people's bodies.
105	[[/folder]]
106
107	[[folder:F is for Fart]]
108	->From Japan\
109	Written and directed by Noboru Iguchi (''Film/ZombieAssToiletOfTheDead'')
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111	Yoshie, a Japanese schoolgirl with a fart fetish, has a crush on her teacher, Miss Yumi. One day, an earthquake unleashes a cloud of poisonous gas that kills everyone in its path. As Yoshie and Yumi find that there's no way to avoid the cloud, the student admits her feelings for her teacher and desires to choke to death on her own gas instead of the one that's already killing everone.
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113	* DeadlyGas: An earthquake unleashes a cloud of deadly gas that kills everyone in Yoshie's school.
114	* {{Fartillery}}: Miss Yumi's farts are toxic enough to kill Yoshie when she inhales them.
115	* {{Gasshole}}: Yoshie has a sexual fetish for farting, and hers are powerful enough to make her skirt flip up. She narrates how she believes that if God really were watching, girls like her would be allowed to do it whenever they wanted, and even theorizes the poison gas cloud as being a fart from God. Miss Yumi seems to have the same fetish, and is able to fill an entire room with her own gas. She is also able to suck them back inside her, along with Yoshie's body... for whatever reason.
116	* TeacherStudentRomance: Yoshie has a ''very'' poorly disguised crush on her teacher. When they are faced with a cloud of DeadlyGas and no escape is possible, Miss Yumi reveals that her feelings are reciprocated and lets her die by suffocating on her own gas. The segment ends with the two of them making out in [[spoiler:a gaseous dimension they call the Land of the Dead]].
117	[[/folder]]
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119	[[folder:G is for Gravity]]
120	->From Australia\
121	Written and directed by Andrew Traucki
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123	In a POV segment, a man travels to the beach and ventures onto the sea with his treasured surfboard... and a bag of bricks.
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125	* SuicideBySea: The unseen protagonist weighs himself down with the bricks, paddles out into the ocean, and sinks to the bottom. The final shot is of his surfboard sticking upright out of the water, like a tombtone.
126	[[/folder]]
127
128	[[folder:H is for Hydro-Electric Diffusion]]
129	->From Norway\
130	Written and directed by Thomas Malling
131
132	In a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII cartoon parody set in a world of anthropomorphic animals, ace pilot Bertie Bulldog stops by a nightclub to take in the "foxy" stripper performing that night. He discovers that the stripper is actually Nazi agent Frau Scheisse, who captures him and prepares to shove him into a vat of electrified water to kill him, until the pilot turns the tables on his captor.
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134	* AdventurerOutfit: Bertie wears the classic 'airman' version': bomber jacket, scarf, gloves, boots, flying helmet and goggles.
135	* TheBaroness: Frau Scheisse is a Nazi FoxyVixen who spends most of the segment in boots, short shorts, a swastika armband, and nothing else.
136	* BilingualBonus: “Frau Scheisse” literally translates to [[spoiler: Mrs. Shit.]]
137	* CigarChomper: Bertie celebrates his triumph over Frau Scheisse with a cigar.
138	* DeathTrap: Frau Scheisse prepares a particularly elaborate one for Bertie. Had she gone with something simpler, she might have succeeded.
139	* DenserAndWackier: A given, since it's a parody of old war cartoons.
140	* DieselPunk: The segment is set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in a universe populated with anthropomorphic animals, so it has a very diesel punk feel, especially Frau Scheisse's elaborate industrial DeathTrap.
141	* ElectricTorture: Frau Scheisse takes the opportunity to electrocute Bertie several times while attempting to force him into her DeathTrap.
142	* EyePop: Bertie's eyes do this when he sees Frau Scheisse [[YouCanLeaveYourHatOn performing her striptease]]. His testicles later do the same thing, leaping out of his throat after her GroinAttack.
143	* FoxyVixen: Frau Scheisse is a sexy Nazi fox woman posing as burlesque dancer.
144	* GroinAttack: Frau Scheisse uses a small robot to punt Bertie in the crotch so hard that his testicles pop out of his throat.
145	* HateSink: As a parody of WWII propaganda films and cartoons, loathsome Nazi operative Frau Scheisse serves this purpose. After seducing AcePilot Bertie Bulldog, she has a small robot punch him in the groin to capture him. She then proceeds to subject Bertie to ElectricTorture while slowly lowering him into a tub of electrified water to shock him to death.
146	* HeroicSecondWind: Bertie hears Winston Churchill's voice in his mind, telling him not to surrender and "Keep calm and carry on". He promptly turns the tables on Frau Scheisse and kills her with her own deathtrap.
147	* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Frau Scheisse falls victim to her own DeathTrap, thanks to some quick thinking from Bertie.
148	* ShoutOut: Bertie's reactions to Frau Scheisse's striptease borrow heavily from ''WesternAnimation/RedHotRidingHood'' and other Creator/TexAvery films.
149	* ShovelStrike: When Bertie starts getting the upper hand, Frau Scheisse pulls a shovel off the side of the control unit and attempts to clobber him.
150	* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: The segment's universe is one, with Bertie and Frau Scheisse fighting one another during a DieselPunk version of [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WWII]].
151	* WartimeCartoon: The short is meant to imitate one of these, only in live-action. The results are uncanny, to say the least.
152	* YouCanLeaveYourHatOn: Frau Scheisse poses as a burlesque dancer and performs a striptease to lure Bertie into her trap.
153	[[/folder]]
154
155	[[folder:I is for Ingrown]]
156	->From Mexico\
157	Written and directed by Jorge Michel Grau
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159	A man ties up his wife and throws her in the bathtub, where he kills her via a motor oil injection. During her final moments, the wife mentally rebukes her husband as a primal and savage animal, and claims that his act of killing her doesn't make him any more of a man.
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161	* AllThereInTheManual: The credits reveal the reason the segment was given its name: [[spoiler: "2015 women murdered in the last 10 years in Mexico. 200 women a month. The horror is not on the screen."]]
162	* BoundAndGagged: The woman, [[spoiler:who is stuck in the bathtub and injected with motor oil, giving her an agonizing death]].
163	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The woman dies when her husband injects her with motor oil. She is seen furiously scratching herself and vomiting profusely as the oil works its way through her veins.
164	* FaceDeathWithDignity: While we see her visibly struggling to fight back against him, as well as her gruesome reactions to the motor oil in her system, the wife's narration is calm and collected as she demeans her husband for doing this to her, noting that his brutality doesn't make him a man in any way.
165	* KarmaHoudini: The man gets away with killing his wife, but her InnerMonologue notes that whatever sense of satisfaction he gets from the act doesn't make him any more of a man.
166	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: The man has this look on his face as his dying wife feebly reaches out to him, but he quickly leaves her to her fate.
167	* PosthumousNarration: The woman narrates as we watch her husband kill her and she slowly dies.
168	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The whole of the wife's narration is one of them directed to her husband for killing her, most likely as a means to prove himself as a man.
169	[[/folder]]
170
171	[[folder:J is for Jidai-geki (Samurai Movie)]]
172	->From Japan\
173	Written and directed by Yûdai Yamaguchi (''Film/MeatballMachine'')
174
175	A samurai warrior, preparing to commit seppuku, suddenly begins making a series of facial expressions that vary from humorous to outright bizarre, leaving poor Kawabe, the kaishakunin set to chop off his head, struggling to keep himself from screaming.
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177	* AmbiguouslyHuman: The samurai might just be one, considering his face can make expressions that no other human can.
178	* BaitAndSwitch: Those trying to guess what the short is called, but aren't very knowledgeable about Japanese movies (and even some that are), might be tempted to guess that the title of this segment is "Japan."
179	* EyeScream: One of the samurai's faces has his eyes popping out of his nose and levitating on their stalks.
180	* {{Seppuku}}: Kawabe, the kaishakunin tasked with chopping off the samurai's head, watches as the samurai begins performing physically impossible facial expressions, causing him to panic. An offscreen voice tells him to finish the job, upon which he beheads the samurai, then starts laughing at the ridiculous expression that the latter's head made when he died.
181	* {{Troll}}: The samurai seems to be one, as he spends his final moments trying to either make his executioner freak out or break down laughing with all sorts of bizarre faces, keeping himself from laughing the whole time.
182	[[/folder]]
183
184	[[folder:K is for Klutz]]
185	->From Denmark\
186	Written and directed by Anders Morgenthaler (''Film/The11thHour2014'')
187
188	In an animated segment, a woman uses the toilet at a party, but for whatever reason, the crap she took doesn't intend to be flushed without a fight.
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190	* TheCanKickedHim: The woman is killed when [[spoiler:the turd rams itself up her rectum and out her mouth at high speed]].
191	* GenericDoomsdayVillain: There is no explanation for how the woman's turd comes to life, nor does it speak to show any personality or motives. It just shows up, refuses to go down the toilet, and [[spoiler:rams its way through the woman's body, killing her]].
192	* TalkingPoo: An animate turd gets into a battle of wits with the woman who produced it, trying to stop her from flushing it. [[spoiler:The turd winds up killing her via high-speed entry into her anus.]]
193	[[/folder]]
194
195	[[folder:L is for Libido ]]
196	->From Indonesia\
197	Written and directed by Timo Tjahjanto
198
199	A man finds himself stripped naked and strapped into a chair, being watched by a group of rich elitists in masks. He is pit against a series of other men in a twisted game where they must masturbate to a series of increasingly disgusting sexual acts, putting his mental and physical limits to the ultimate test. Especially since any "contestant" who fails to climax is brutally murdered.
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201	* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Stage #13 is where the protagonist finally fails to climax first, spelling his doom.
202	* AssShove: Initially, any man who fails to climax is killed via a drill impaling their anus and emerging from their mouth. A female hostess also gets the drill impaled through her face when it malfunctions and starts late.
203	* {{Bookends}}: The segment begins and ends with a closeup of the alarm on the wall blaring.
204	* ChainedToABed: After failing in his final task, the man wakes up to find himself chained to a bed, where a beautiful woman makes love to him. For a few moments, things seem to be going better for him. And then his lover pulls out a chainsaw...
205	* ChainsawGood: After finally failing to climax first, the protagonist wakes up ChainedToABed and having sex with a beautiful woman. He unfortunately turns out to be part of the next sexual act, as the woman hacks him to death with a chainsaw as she continues to ride him.
206	* EyesDoNotBelongThere: When he looks up the skirt of one of his captors, the protagonist sees an eye staring back at him. Given his deteriorating physical and mental state, this may have been a hallucination.
207	* FanDisservice: The first few sexual acts are pretty arousing, but from #12 onward, they cross into straight-up disgusting.
208	* KarmaHoudini: Whoever's behind this murder/masturbation game, they're free to keep abducting random men to "sign up" for it.
209	* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: The end of the segment is set to a love song that slowly grinds to a halt.
210	* NightmareFetishist: The woman who has sex with the protagonist while dismembering him with a chainsaw gets '''REALLY''' into the act.
211	* NothingIsScarier: Everything about this highly disturbing game the protagonist finds himself getting into, as well as the people behind it, which we learn nothing about.
212	* OutWithABang: The protagonist becomes part of the next act when he finally fails to climax, where he is murdered by a beautiful woman as they have sex.
213	* PaedoHunt: Stage #13 features a little boy having involuntary sex with a slightly-heavyset man, which is mercifully kept offscreen. This is notably the act where the protagonist ''doesn't'' climax first, cementing his fate.
214	[[/folder]]
215
216	[[folder:M is for Miscarriage]]
217	->From the USA\
218	Written and directed by Ti West (''Film/TheHouseOfTheDevil'', ''Film/{{X 2022}}'')
219
220	The shortest segment of the film, where a woman tries to fix a rather unusual toilet clog.
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222	* GrossUpCloseUp: The woman's aborted fetus sitting at the bottom of the blood-filled toilet. If you don't want to see what a dead fetus looks like, maybe skip this segment.
223	* HellIsThatNoise: The shot of the dead fetus is accompanied by a high-pitch static noise interlaced with a baby's cries, which get louder and louder the closer the camera gets to the fetus.
224	[[/folder]]
225
226	[[folder:N is for Nuptials]]
227	->From Thailand\
228	Written and directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun (''Film/{{Shutter}}'' (2004))
229
230	Shane suprises his girlfriend Ann with a new parrot, which he has trained to give her a marriage proposal and a wedding ring. As the happy couple celebrate, however, the parrot also starts copying phrases Shane and his mistress said when they had sex, which doesn't sit well for Ann.
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232	* ChekhovsGun: The knife Ann was using to cut vegetables, which she also uses to stab Shane for his infidelity.
233	* FowlMouthedParrot: Shane buys his fiancee a parrot, which he had trained to give her a wedding ring and propose to her. After the proposal is made, the bird starts repeating sentences Shane said during sex with his mistress.
234	* ImproperlyParanoid: Ann initially doesn't like the fact that Shane bought a parrot because he's apparently had a history of frivolously spending her money and she's afraid of catching bird flu. Though that doesn't turn out to be the case, Ann was still right to be suspicious when the parrot repeats phrases from when her boyfriend and his mistress had sex.
235	* MoodWhiplash: One second, the happy couple are celebrating their engagement. The next, the parrot starts blabbing about Shane's mistress Joy, resulting in a violent stabbing.
236	* NotInFrontOfTheParrot: Shane's and Ann's new parrot helps the former propose to Ann in a very adorable way. Then the bird exposes the fact that Shane hasn't been faithful to Ann for a while. A violent stabbing ensues.
237	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The look on Shane's face when the parrot starts imitating his and Joy's sex session last night.
238	* WomanScorned: Thanks to the parrot revealing that Shane was cheating on her with a woman named Joy, Ann promptly grabs a knife and stabs him to death.
239	[[/folder]]
240
241	[[folder:O is for Orgasm]]
242	->From Belgium\
243	Written and directed by Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
244
245	A highly artistic and avant-garde segment focusing on a man and woman having sex, with copious closeups, abstract imagery, and dim lighting.
246	----
247	* EroticAsphyxiation: The end of the short has the man pulling out a leather belt and strangling the woman. It's either a case of the trope that goes horribly awry, or a cover for murder, depending on your interpretation.
248	[[/folder]]
249
250	[[folder:P is for Pressure]]
251	->From the UK\
252	Written and directed by Simon Rumley (''Film/OnceUponATimeInLondon'')
253
254	After her reckless boyfriend steals all the money she was saving, a prostitute struggling to raise three daughters is forced to accept an invitation to a rather disturbing film shoot.
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256	* AbusiveParents: The prostitute's daughters view her reckless boyfriend as a father figure. One of them is later heard crying and the other two are seen cowering as the boyfriend steals their mother's cash, hinting they tried to stop him and he got violent with them.
257	* {{Bookends}}: The segment begins with a zoom-out on a sign in the red light district, and ends with a zoom-in on that same sign.
258	* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title can be interpreted as ''financial'' pressure, which drives people to do things they wouldn't usually do, [[spoiler: and ''physical'' pressure, which kills the kitten.]]
259	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Brilliantly deconstructed, [[spoiler:as the prostitute gets the money she needs by crushing a kitten under high-heels for an animal crush video.]]
260	* GoryDiscretionShot: Mercifully, we don't see the prostitute [[spoiler:crush the poor kitten's head]], but we ''are'' able to [[{{Squick}} hear it]].
261	* KarmaHoudini: The prostitute's boyfriend gets away with stealing her saved-up finances.
262	* PlatonicProstitution: The john hires the prostitute to [[spoiler:crush a kitten beneath a pair of fancy shoes while he films it]]. None of the hookers he already approached would touch the job.
263	* RedLightDistrict: The segment is set around this side of town.
264	[[/folder]]
265
266	[[folder:Q is for Quack]]
267	->From the USA\
268	Written and directed by Creator/AdamWingard and Simon Barrett
269
270	Creator/AdamWingard and Simon Barrett, playing fictional versions of themselves, are frustrated at having gotten the letter Q for their segment. After many hours of brainstorming, they get the idea to shoot a live duck in a cage, thereby having their segment stand out by being the only one to feature an actual death caught on film.
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272	* AdamWesting: Creator/AdamWingard and Simon Barrett play coke-sniffing, hypocritical versions of themselves who don't know how to properly work guns. And they greatly enjoy it.
273	* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Simon points his gun at Adam as he tries finding the safety. The gun goes off, shooting Adam, whose own gun discharges and shoots Simon as he keels over.
274	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Juan Carlos, Adam and Simon's boom operator, flees the scene after the latter two accidentally kill each other.
275	* [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to the Duck?]]: The fate of the duck that the directors intended to shoot remains unknown.
276	[[/folder]]
277
278	[[folder:R is for Removed]]
279	->From Serbia\
280	Written and directed by Srđan Spasojević (''Film/ASerbianFilm'')
281
282	A hospital patient whose skin can miraculously produce strips of 35 mm film finds his skin being surgically ripped off by scientists who seek the images on said film, as well as the general public, who view him as a miracle. He eventually finds the strength to kill his captors and escape to his potential freedom. Or does he?
283	----
284	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: During his escape, the patient lets the nurse live, because she was the only staff member who was kind to him.
285	* BlownAcrossTheRoom: A guard shot by the patient is blown backwards across the hall and smashes out a window.
286	* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The doctors keeping the patient hostage and forcing him into repeated surgeries, who are never given an explanation for why they want the film strips his body makes.
287	* GrievousBottleyHarm: While escaping, the patient smashes a flask of blood over the orderly's head.
288	* HumanResources: The patient goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the doctors who [[spoiler: have been harvesting his skin.]]
289	* RiddleForTheAges: The segment is full of questions with no answers. Why can the patient's skin produce film? What's on the film in the first place? Why is it that the scientists want the film he produces? And why was he attempting to tow that locomotive?
290	* TheUnreveal: The patient's face is never shown.
291	[[/folder]]
292
293	[[folder:S is for Speed]]
294	->From the UK\
295	Written and directed by Jake West (''Film/{{Doghouse}}'')
296
297	Roxanne tries to protect her friend Lulu, who is being pursued by a figure known as "The Hooded Man". She leads him on a high-speed chase across the desert, but no matter what she throws at him, the Hooded Man won't give up his pursuit of Lulu.
298	----
299	* AllForNothing: After everything Roxanne does for Lulu (in her hallucination), Lulu swipes her drugs after she dies and possibly overdoses herself.
300	* AllJustADream: Lulu and Roxanne turn out to be junkies living in a drug den. The entire segment was a drug-induced hallucination that Roxanne had just before she overdosed.
301	* BadassLongcoat / InTheHood: The Hooded Man/Death gets his name from the longcoat he wears, including a hood that obscures his face.
302	* DoubleMeaningTitle: The segment's title can be interpreted both as the high-speed pursuit Roxanne leads the Hooded Man down, as well as the drug she overdoses on.
303	* DyingDream: The whole segment turns out to be a hallucination that Roxanne has while drugged out, which ends when she takes the Hooded Man's hand and overdoses.
304	* FireBreathingWeapon: Roxanne pulls a flamethrower from the trunk of her car, trying to barbecue the Hooded Man. It doesn't work.
305	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The improbabilities of the segment, such as the gratuituous flamethrower Roxanne uses, the fact that she's unable to kill Lulu, and that Lulu herself tells her that she knows what's happening and that she can't stop the Hooded Man no matter what she does, come into play when it's revealed that everything was Roxanne's DyingDream.
306	* HereWeGoAgain: As soon as Roxanne dies, Lulu takes her drugs and injects herself, bringing her back to the desert and no doubt allowing the Hooded Man to get her, too.
307	* ImplacableMan: Nothing that Roxanne does to the Hooded Man (the personification of Death) stops him. When he finally catches her, he actually congratulates her for leading him on a better chase than any of his other victims.
308	* PersonWithTheClothing: Roxanne's pursuer is only identified as "[[InTheHood The Hooded Man]]", though the better name might be "Death".
309	* PunkInTheTrunk: Roxanne stuffs Lulu into the trunk of her car before speeding off. Lulu keeps shouting insults at Roxanne as they drive.
310	* VitriolicBestBuds: Lulu and Roxanne hurl insults at each other frequently, but the latter genuinely wants to save her friend from Death's clutches. Lulu doesn't nessecarily see things her way.
311	[[/folder]]
312
313	[[folder:T is for Toilet]]
314	->From the UK\
315	Written and directed by [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ-4K4911cLZMNEZLnxnpIg Lee Hardcastle]]
316
317	In this claymation segment, a little boy's parents are attempting to toilet train him. Their son shows great fear about approaching the toilet, which seemingly proven true when the toilet suddenly turns into a monster and kills the parents.
318	----
319	* AbsurdPhobia: The child protagonist is afraid of using the toilet, to the point he imagines it turning into a monster and killing his parents. Justified at the end, when the cistern ends up falling off the wall and crushing his skull. [[spoiler:He survives, thankfully.]]
320	* {{Bookends}}: The segment begins and ends with a shot of the boy's old training potty in the trash.
321	* TheCanKickedHim: The boy gets his head trapped between the toilet seat and the bowl, and then is killed when the cistern falls off the wall and crushes his skull. [[spoiler:That being said, ''Ghost Burger'' reveals he managed to survive the incident.]]
322	* DerangedAnimation: Lee Hardcastle uses his unsettlingly-amateurish-yet-gory style of claymation for this segment.
323	* EyeScream: In the nightmare, the monstrous toilet has one of its eyes destroyed when the boy's mother throws the plunger at it, handle-first.
324	* {{Foreshadowing}}: The father notes that his son should be wary of the screws he put into the wall, since they're the wrong size. Come the end of the segment, the screws fall out and allow the cistern to crush his son's skull.
325	* GenericDoomsdayVillain: The toilet randomly comes to life for no reason and massacres the boy's family. Of course, this is a child's nightmare, so the lack of logic is acceptable.
326	* JumpScare: The toilet gives the boy one at the end of the nightmare, popping in front of the camera and roaring as it prepares to eat him.
327	* ProperlyParanoid: Judging by what happens to him at the end, the boy was right about not trusting the toilet, albeit for different reasons than his nightmare.
328	* ToiletHorror: A kid whose parents hope to toilet train him dreams about his toilet turning into a man-eating monster that kills said parents.
329	* TongueTrauma: In his nightmare, the boy watches as the monstrous toilet uses its handle to choke his father, who grits his teeth so hard he bites his tongue off.
330	[[/folder]]
331
332	[[folder:U is for Unearthed]]
333	->From the UK\
334	Written and directed by Creator/BenWheatley
335
336	In another POV segment, a vampire is excavated and awakened by an angry mob out to kill it. It roams the countryside as a means to escape, draining a young woman of her blood in the process.
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338	* CurbStompBattle: An angry mob versus a single cornered vampire. The angry mob wins.
339	* DecapitationPresentation: The leader of the mob, who wields an axe, uses it to decapitate the vampire and proceeds to hold its head aloft. This is seen from vampire's point of view, indicating that its senses are still functioning at this point.
340	* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Once awakened, the vampire immediately goes on a killing spree until it's put down. Judging by the fact that it only speaks in shrieks and growls, it might not even be sentient.
341	* HeroAntagonist: The angry mob, out to kill the vampire before it kills them.
342	* MurdererPOV: The segment is shown through the eyes of the vampire, even after decapitation.
343	* OurVampiresAreDifferent: The vampire we follow is a ravenous, bloodthirsty creature who kills whenever it's awake, only speaking in shrieks and growls. It's impervious to most forms of bodily harm, and is killed by a stake in the heart, followed by decapitation.
344	* TheToothHurts: Before it's killed, the vampire has its fangs yanked out of its skull.
345	* VillainProtagonist: The vampire. The whole segment is seen from its perspective, letting us follow its actions throughout.
346	* {{Xenofiction}}: It's not one of those self-righteous HumansAreTheRealMonsters examples. This segment is shown from the perspective of a complete and utter monster that lives only to kill and destroy, and you're supposed to feel good when the angry mob chops its head off.
347	[[/folder]]
348
349	[[folder:V is for Vagitus (The Cry of a Newborn Baby)]]
350	->From Canada\
351	Written and directed by Kaare Andrews (''Film/{{Altitude}}'')
352
353	In the post-apocalyptic world of New Vancouver, 2035 A.D., women who wish to bear children must petition the government for permission to do so, as a result of rampant overpopulation. Propagation Control officer Lainey wants a child, but has been informed that she is infertile. She and her robot companion Nezbit are then assigned to break into a facility housing a family of psychics (or "mentals", as her boss desparingly calls them), but gradually feels compelled to spare them when she discovers that they have a young baby.
354	----
355	* AndTheAdventureContinues: The psychic child's father advises Lainey that she must take responsibility for the child, as they are "the Prophet" and destined to unite psychics everywhere.
356	* CrapsackWorld: The segment is set in a dystopian future where reproduction is only allowed by permit, and any unapproved babies are taken and killed. Meanwhile, the government has also instituted a campaign of genocide and human experimentation on psychics, to the point where Stoker doesn't even legally consider them people. Or even alive.
357	* DystopianEdict: The future world the segment is set in is heavily overpopulated, to the point where women must earn the right of fertility through service to the government.
358	* EveryoneHasStandards: Lainey takes her job seriously and orders the psychic family to surrender their child, but she's devastated when Nezbit automatically kills them and tears the child's head off. She's additionally horrified by Stoker's flippant disregard for psychics and how he wishes for the child's severed head to be reanimated and experimented on.
359	* FantasticRacism: Psychics are common in New Vancouver, but they are treated as a plague that needs to be wiped off the face of the planet, to the point where they are routinely subjected to genocide and experimentation.
360	* HateSink: Lainey's superior, Stoker, is a government agent who staunchly supports refusal of reproduction without a permit and is vehemently bigoted against psychics, calling them "mentals" as a derogatory term. When two of his agents capture a psychic family, Stoker has all of them killed while intending to resurrect the decapitated baby for experimentation, flat-out admitting that he doesn't even consider psychics to be people. When the baby revives and starts massacring his goons, Stoker orders the the soldier holding its head to shoot it, but the baby thankfully explodes Stoker's head before it can be killed again.
361	* JediMindTrick: The mother of the psychic family uses her abilities to brainwash Lainey into letting them escape, but Nezbit is able to gun down the family before they can do so.
362	* NotQuiteDead: Psychics use their abilities to keep themselves alive after death, if only for a short while.
363	* OhCrap: The scientist holding the baby's head exclaims "Oh, shit!" when Nezbit prepares to shoot it.
364	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Nezbit's eyes glow red whenever it detects psychic energy.
365	* RobotBuddy: Lainey's partner Nezbit, which slaughters anything they've been tasked to exterminate, but acts as a dog-like GentleGiant around Lainey herself. Stoker tries to have it arrest her by telling it that she's been compromised by her refusal to let him experiment on the psychic baby's reanimated severed head, but it doesn't fall for it.
366	* WouldHurtAChild: Nezbit bites the psychic baby's head off, and Stoker wants the severed head resurrected so it can be experimented on.
367	* YourHeadASplode: The psyhcic infant does this to Stoker when it awakens.
368	[[/folder]]
369
370	[[folder:W is for WTF!]]
371	->From the USA\
372	Written and directed by Jon Schnepp (a director on ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' and season 4 of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'')
373
374	In another meta segment, Jon Schnepp, having gotten the letter W for his segment, has been coming up with all sorts of different ideas for what it could be about, including a giant walrus, a warrior woman, a mean old man in a wheelchair, and an animated segment involving a witch and a warlock. Suddenly, he sees his ideas come to life in a gratuitious news broadcast, along with several other random and improbable events throughout the city.
375	----
376	* ArcSymbol: The letter "W", which keeps appearing throughout the segment, especially in the news broadcast and the list of potential ideas Jon has for the segment.
377	* AsHimself: Jon Schnepp, writer and director of the segment, is its lead character.
378	* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: One of Jon's ideas city is about a giant walrus that shoots laser beams from its eyes. The city is later attacked by said walrus.
379	* {{Bookends}}: The first scene has Jon working on an animation where a knight tries to save a damsel from being stabbed by a wicked witch. The end of the segment has that same witch stabbing his still-living severed head to death.
380	* ChainmailBikini: The warrior woman Jon comes up with, and who later fights the giant walrus, is clad in a bikini made of leather and metal.
381	* IceCreamKoan: The news anchor reporting the madness descends into one as it goes on and on.
382	* MindScrew: Living up to its name, this segment is unapologetically nonsensical.
383	* OffWithHisHead: Some of Jon's friends get their heads torn off by the zombie clowns so they can juggle them, and his own head is sliced off by the warrior woman he imagined, which is then stabbed by the witch from his opening animation.
384	* ShoutOut: An outbreak of [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext zombie clowns]] prompts the response, "[[Music/InsaneClownPosse Are they looking for magnets?]]".
385	* TitleDrop: Jon exclaims "What the fuck?!" just before the witch starts stabbing his severed head.
386	* WickedWitch: Jon's opening animation features one, and it stabs his severed head to death at the end.
387	[[/folder]]
388
389	[[folder:X is for XXL]]
390	->From France\
391	Written and directed by Xavier Gens (''Film/ColdSkin'')
392
393	The homely and overweight Gertrude is mocked by everyone around her for her figure, and haunted by images of thin and attractive women everywhere she goes. No longer able to take the harassment or the state of her apperance, she turns to a rather... unorthodox method to lose weight.
394	----
395	* BigEater: Gertrude shoves some slop from her fridge down her throat with her hands to the point where she vomits in the sink.
396	* DownerEnding: Gertrude flays her skin off so she can finally be thin and beautiful, only to die from massive blood loss.
397	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Subverted. After Gertrude cuts herself into an emaciated figure, [[spoiler:she falls over dead from blood loss.]]
398	* FlayingAlive: Gertrude does this to herself in a futile attempt to become thin.
399	* TheFreelanceShameSquad: Every single person Gertrude passes on the subway and on the street mocks her for her weight.
400	* GlasgowGrin: When Gertrude starts cutting herself, she cuts her mouth into such a grin to remove the fat from her cheeks, and in an attempt to have a permanent smile like the skinny girls on television.
401	* GoOutWithASmile: Through a combination of the above-mentioned GlasgowGrin and her delusional state of mind, Gertrude succumbs to blood loss with a smile on her face, posing her new "figure" in her bathroom mirror.
402	* GrossUpCloseUp: Gertrude ravenously chows down on some slop she takes out the fridge, with close-ups of her mouth as she chews.
403	* KarmaHoudini: None of the people who mocked poor Gertrude suffer any consequence for essentially shaming her to suicide.
404	* SanitySlippage: Gertrude goes through this just as she starts her "surgery", with thin and attractive women popping up in her mind.
405	* WeightLossHorror: Gertrude wanders the streets of France as people everywhere taunt her size, and she is haunted by images of thin, attractive women. She sadly gorges herself on slop from her fridge before deciding to finally do something about her weight. Using a variety of sharp objects, Gertrude proceeds to cut all the fat off of her body. She walks out of the bathtub missing all her skin and reduced to a somewhat skeletal state. She poses briefly, then bleeds to death.
406	* WorldOfJerkass: EVERY SINGLE PERSON Gertrude comes across mocks her figure and appearance, and the world itself seems to remind her of that by showing thin, happy, and attractive women wherever she is.
407	[[/folder]]
408
409	[[folder:Y is for Youngbuck]]
410	->From Canada\
411	Written and directed by Jason Eisener (''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'')
412
413	A pedophile working as an elementary school janitor spys on some boys as they play basketball. Taking note of one particular boy, the janitor invites him to a hunting trip, where he teaches him to shoot deer with an arrow, and then disgustingly has his way with him. The boy thankfully gets his revenge in the end.
414	----
415	* BaldOfEvil: The janitor who rapes the boy he takes on a hunting trip is completely bald.
416	* {{Bambification}}: Subverted. The boy uses the decapitated deer's head to kill the janitor.
417	* EyeScream: The pedophile janitor gets the decapitated deer's antlers jammed into his eyes.
418	* HateSink: This segment's protagonist is an elementary school janitor who's also a pedophile. He pervs on some boys playing basketball, then licks their sweat off the bleachers with disgusting glee. He also convinces one of the boys to go hunting with him, where it's strongly implied the janitor raped him after he killed a deer.
419	* OffWithHisHead: The janitor's victim, after stabbing him with the deer's head, uses it to tear his head off and shoot it through a basketball hoop.
420	* PaedoHunt: The disgustingly creepy janitor molests the boy he takes on his hunting trip. Thankfully, he gets what's coming to him when the same boy kills him.
421	* RepeatCut: The arrow the boy shoots at the deer is seen being fired from three different angles.
422	* ThousandYardStare: The janitor's young victim has one as he kills him, indicating that he's been broken by the trauma.
423	[[/folder]]
424
425	[[folder:Z is for Zetsumetsu (Extinction)]]
426	->From Japan\
427	Written and directed by Creator/YoshihiroNishimura
428
429	In the aftermath of a devastating nuclear conflict that has left Japan a wasteland crawling with gangs and mutants, noted scientist Dr. Strangeluv exposits the more "positive" aspects in relation to American and Japanese culture, as both nations are hinted to have been on opposing sides of the war. While he does so, the imagery goes absolutely nuts in response to his symbology.
430	----
431	* BloodyHilarious: The segment is directed by [[Film/TokyoGorePolice Yoshihiro]] [[Creator/YoshihiroNishimura Nishimura]], so it isn't much of a surprise.
432	* CrapsackWorld: The segment takes place in a post-apocalyptic Japan, suffering from the aftermath of a nuclear strike.
433	* MindScrew: Much like "W is for WTF!", this segment is all over the place, and nobody seems to be able to tell what's going on.
434	* NonIndicativeName: Aside from the post-apocalyptic setting, there doesn't seem to be anything related to extinction going on... or maybe not. [[MindScrew Who can tell?]]
435	* OneHitPolykill: The Rice Girl fires a bullet that goes through the heads of all three sushi-making men.
436	* RefugeInAudacity: The segment seems to be going for this with its over-the-top political and sexual imagery, in addition to all the violence.
437	* ShoutOut: There are numerous references to ''Film/DrStrangelove'', particularly the wheelchair-bound narrator and the theme of nuclear war.
438	[[/folder]]

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