History Film / ABCsOfDeath2

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 wishes 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.

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.

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The gay man sees the fundamentalists who are toturing him as horrific, eyeless demons.

* DramaticStutter:The trio each have an over-the-top stutter brought on by nervousness, which is naturally PlayedForLaughs.

* DeathByIrony: After sexually harassing Yumi for their film, she breaks out her tentacles and viciously kills them, sexually assualting them the same way they did her.

* FoundFootage: The segment is shot through a video chat between Curt and Amber

* DeathByChildbirth: A particularly morbid example. [[spoiler:The mother runs out 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.]]
* 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 have sex with his own child in his wife's skin, the effect is more horrific than sexy.]]

Directed by Robert Morgan.

Directed by Jim Hosking.

Directed by Bill Plympton.

Directed by Vincenzo Natali (''Film/{{Cube}}'')

* EldritchAbomination: Underneath his helmet, we see that Zorb tentacles protruding from his face.

Directed by {{UsefulNotes/Nollywood}} icon Lancelot Imasuen

* PyrrhicVictory: Subverted. [[spoiler:The war results in the couples' heads being reduced to empty holes.]]

* OffWithHisHead: Fletcher's death comes from his head slowly being chopped off slowly by an axe.

* StupidSacrifice: Ogiso sacrifices a random rat instead of the queen's son, as she commanded. In doing this, he summons Ubini, which destroys the village.

* DropTheHammer: The intruder uses a hammer to murder Miriam and her child.

* MurderByCremation: A mobile unit that travels around looking for "sub-norms", kills them by cremating them alive.

In a segment shown entirely through a SplitScreen format, an intruder breaks into Miriam Walter's 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.

* ManBitesMan: Patrick attacks the bystander he knocked down and rips his ear off with his teeth

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The one featured here tries in vain to murder their immortal matriarch for their inheritance, and the matriarch herself isn't makintg

* PaedoHunt: The teenage Lucy is said to have been missing because she ran away with a 26-year-old man who claimed was said to be her boyfriend.

!!Each segment provides examples of:

!!A is for A[[spoiler:mateur]]
From the USA. Directed by E.L. Katz (Film/CheapThrills). It's about a hitman who was given an assignment to kill a drug dealer. He imagines a perfect execution of sneaking through air vents with the plan to enter the room via the dealer's penthouse and assassinate all the targets. However, the reality says it differently in the worst way.

* AirVentPassageway: The assassin imagines crawling through an air vent in classic movie fashion. In reality, the vent is cramped, dirty and vermin infested. The assassin gets stuck [[spoiler:and winds up dying in the vent]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The hitman's target is killed by a bullet from the dead hitman's silencer.]]
* BlackComedy: [[spoiler:Some dark humor can be found in the hitman managing to kill his target posthumously.]]
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of action movie tropes. Mostly deconstructs AirVentPassageway by showing how easy it is to get harmed and killed there.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: The hitman imagines himself flawlessly using an AirVentPassageway, only to learn the hard way that a person can't actually fit inside without getting stuck.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The drug dealer masturbates to and films a video of two women making out.
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:The hitman dies from blood loss while crawling through air vents, but the drug dealer got killed by a gun from the hitman's corpse that fell from the air vents.]]
* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: The assassin manages to complete his assignment when [[spoiler:his corpse falls out of the air duct, and his gun goes off when it hits the floor, shooting the coke dealer in the neck]].
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In fact, it is very difficult and outright dangerous to attempt an AirVentPassageway crawl, as the assassin finds out the hard way.

!!B is for B[[spoiler:adger]]
From the UK. Directed by Julian Barrett (of ''Series/TheMightyBoosh''). It's about a wildlife documentary filmmaker named Peter (played by Barrett) documenting the endangerment of badgers caused by a local power plant nearby.

* BadOlBadger: What did you expect?
* BloodyHilarious: There is a lot of bloody violence played for laughs in this segment.
* FoundFootage: Justified in that it is a mockumentary.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:After Peter is forced into the hole by the mutated badger, he is shot back out with his torso ripped in half.]]
* KillerRabbit: In RealLife, badgers can be dangerous, but not ''that'' dangerous.
* SmugSnake: Peter is portrayed as rather condescending and arrogant.

!!C is for C[[spoiler:apital Punishment]]
From the UK. Directed by Julian Gilbey (''Film/ALonelyPlaceToDie''). It's about a town which handles local matters, including law and crimes, calling for the execution of a man for the supposed murder of a teenage girl. The man tries to reason with the locals, proclaiming his innocence and suggesting they call the police to deal with the matter. The locals promise to call the police if he confesses or face execution if he does otherwise. After confessing, however, the locals plan to execute him.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The man is executed, after it turns out that he was in fact innocent.]]
* FromBadToWorse: Oh boy, where do we begin? [[spoiler:The man confesses, but the townspeople gives him a death penalty. On the way to the forest, where the execution will happen, the teenage girl turns out to be alive. Discovering their mistake, two men attempt to stop the execution, only to later die in a car accident. The execution then takes place by beheading, which fail on the first several attempts and finish the deed after the final swing.]]
* KangarooCourt: The man is sentenced to death by a court of locals who have no authority to do so. The 'jurors' are even identified in the credits as 'the Kangaroo Court'.
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:The man has his head chopped off slowly by an ax.]]

!!D is for D[[spoiler:eloused]]
A StopMotionAnimation short directed by UK-based animator Robert Morgan. It's about a large bug that helps an executed man get revenge on his ghoulish killers.

* AnimalisticAbomination: Whatever the hell came out of the portal, it only barely resembles the cockroach it once was.
* ArcWords: ''You pay for life'' turns up several times in this segment.
* AssShove: The man "pays for life" by... shoving the [[spoiler:decapitated heads of his captors]] up the insect's asshole to be devoured by the demon.
* BodyHorror: This segment features rather gruesome transformations and mutilations of the human body, combined with some really disturbing FacialHorror. Not to mention the cockroach after it is revived.
* DerangedAnimation: It's often compared to {{Music/Tool}}'s music videos, with a touch of Creator/DavidFirth.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The man's second body/soul is forced to watch his mortal head get eaten by the bug, and has his now decayed head spitefully crushed underfoot by one of the reanimated captors, as the bug goes back to the portal to hell. [[SurrealHorror Or something like that.]]]]
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:The executioners die of decapitation in this segment then reanimate briefly.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The man gets his revenge, though rather forcibly so by the insect.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: The man starts strapped to an operating table, waiting for his killers to arrive.
* TragicMistake: [[spoiler:The man then gets his own head stuck inside the insect's asshole by accident when trying to push one of the decapitated heads that refused to budge, leading to his second death.]]
* TheUnintelligible: All of the characters speak in indecipherable roars and other sounds. The only voice we hear in the entire short is the demon inside of the bug, who has four lines total.

!!E is for E[[spoiler:quilibrium]]
From Cuba. Directed by Alejandro Brugués (''Film/JuanOfTheDead''). It's about two castaways who have their friendship tested when a beautiful woman washes ashore.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:He chooses his friend over a woman. Both live happily in an island.]]
* CoconutMeetsCranium: [[spoiler:The woman is killed when one the men throws a coconut at her head.]]
* DesertedIsland: Features two castaways on a deserted island whose friendship is jeopardized when a woman washes up on the beach.
* FaintInShock: The woman immediately passes out when she realizes she's on an island.
* GreenEyedMonster: The woman inspires jealousy in one of the guys.
* LoveTriangle: The two male castaways start fighting over the affections of the woman.
* MadeOfPlasticine: The woman is somehow [[spoiler:instantly killed by a thrown coconut]].
* ShoutOut: [[Film/CastAway Wilson the volleyball]] makes a brief appearance in this segment.
* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler:One castaway decides to kill the girl by throwing a coconut at her head.]]

!!F is for F[[spoiler:alling]]
From Israel. Directed by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (''Film/BigBadWolves''). It's about an Israeli female paratrooper who got caught in a tree after jumping from a plane and is hanging by her parachute. An Arab boy discovers her hanging there and aims his rifle at her to kill her.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:At the very end of the short, the woman looks up to see [[BolivianArmyEnding other Arabians pointing their weapons at her]].]]
* MadeOfPlasticine: [[spoiler:The soldier's leg badly breaks, right through the skin]] from a 2-3 foot fall. Israel must have a milk shortage.
* ParachuteInATree: The Israeli soldier starts the segment hanging from a tree by her parachute.
* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: [[spoiler:The Arab teen is killed when he drops his rifle from the tree and it goes off, shooting him.]]
* ReversePsychology: The soldier uses this to escape without getting killed by a boy.
* WarIsHell: This segment clearly shows war in a negative light.

!!G is for G[[spoiler:randdad]]
From the UK. Directed by Jim Hosking. It's about a rude young man living with his grandfather who is exasperated by his grandfather's retro taste and style. As he lays down in his bed, there is a noise beneath the mattress.

* BerserkButton: Granddad can't stand being called a wanker [[spoiler:because he doesn't have a penis]].
* EvilOldFolks: The basic premise of the segment is that a man lives with his rotten grandfather, although he's [[AssholeVictim no prize himself]].
* ItTastesLikeFeet: The grandson insults his grandfather's cognac by saying "I've had wee-wees that tasted better than this".

!!H is for H[[spoiler:ead Game]]
From the USA. Directed by Bill Plympton. This hand drawn animated segment is about a man and woman kissing, which turns into a surreal power struggle.

* CallBack: To Plympton's earlier surreal works about kissing.
* SurrealHumor: It's a Bill Plympton short. Of course there'd be absurd and surreal visuals for comedic purposes.
* PyrrhicVictory: Subverted. [[spoiler:All of them die without any victory.]]

!!I is for I[[spoiler:nvincible]]
From the Philippines. Directed by Erik Matti (Film/OnTheJob, Film/BuyBust). It's about a family that tries to kill the matriarch for her inheritance, which is composed of an ornate stone that makes its host immortal, along with cash and a beach house.

* TheAgeless: The matriarch is over 100 years old and doesn't appear to have aged as much.
* BlackComedy: The mortal injuries the matriarch survives are played for dark laughs.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:The youngest of the siblings gets the stone and she has to live forever like the now-dead matriarch.]]
* ImmortalityInducer: The stone enables whoever wields it to live forever.
* ManOnFire: The oldest son tries to kill his mother by setting her on fire. [[spoiler:She still lives.]]
* OffWithHerHead: The youngest kills her mother by cutting off her head.

!!J is for J[[spoiler:esus]]
From Brazil. Directed by Dennison Ramalho, who is known for making controversial [[ReligiousHorror horror shorts that deals with religious fundamentalism]]. It's about two religious [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalists]] torturing a gay man, who is having a hallucination of them being demons.

* BringMyBrownPants: The man urinates himself as he is being threatened by his captors.
* BuryYourGays: One of the men was murdered off-screen. [[spoiler:The other lives when the vengeful spirit kills his torturers.]]
* CureYourGays: A wealthy businessman hires a team to kidnap his gay son and exorcise the gayness out of him.
* ElectricTorture: During the attempt to [[CureYourGays cure the man's gayness]], the fundamentalists take jumper leads connected to a car battery and apply them to his genitals.
* GayAesop: [[spoiler:The gay man's dead lover comes back as a ghost, kills the two fundamentalists, and tattoos the words "Love is Law" (in Portuguese) on the man's arm.]]
* OffingTheOffspring: The father ordered one of two fundamentalists to kidnap his son and torture him for being gay.
* ReligiousHorror: [[spoiler: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 be homophobic.]]
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The gay man being tortured sees the fundamentalists as horrific eyeless demons.

!!K is for K[[spoiler:nell]]
From Lithuania. Directed by Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (Film/VanishingWaves). It's about a woman who sees a big, floating sphere of black liquid that causes people from another apartment to kill each other. The black liquid is now going after the woman who is alone in her own home.

* CosmicHorrorStory: WordOfGod cited Creator/HPLovecraft as one of their influences.
* EldritchAbomination: The black liquid, a large spherical shape in the sky that influences the people who live across the street to murder each other. It then causes our protagonist to bleed profusely at its presence when it reappears outside her door.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The segment begins with a woman painting her nails with black nail-polish. And then the black liquid is coming after her.
* HatePlague: The liquid induces violence.
* RearWindowWitness: From her balcony, the woman witnesses multiple murders being committed in the apartment block opposite.

!!L is for L[[spoiler:egacy]]
From Nigeria. Directed by {{UsefulNotes/Nollywood}} icon Lancelot Imasuen. It's about an African tribe's sacrificial ritual that goes horribly wrong, which summons a demonic creature that attacks several villagers.

* StupidSacrifice: They sacrifice the mouse crawling nearby instead of a man who impregnated the queen of the tribe (or something like that). [[IdiotBall They accidentally summon the monster.]]

!!M is for M[[spoiler:asticate]]
From the USA. Directed by Robert Boocheck. It was a winner for the 26th director contest. Shot mostly in [[{{Overcrank}} slow motion]], it's about a large man with strange looking eyes who runs in his underwear down a street while knocking down several bystanders and attempts to eat someone.

* CreatorCameo: The director was with this man when [[spoiler:he's about to snort a bath salt.]]
* DrugsAreBad: [[spoiler:The man's cannibalistic rampage started because he snorted bath salts 37 minutes earlier.]]
* EarAche: The man bites the ear off the bystander he knocked down.
* HowWeGotHere: The final scene of the short explains how all of this started.
* ImAHumanitarian: Defied. The man bites off the bystander's ear and the policeman shoot him in his head.
* ManBitesMan: The man bites the bystander he knocked down and rips his ear off.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:This was all started when the man snorted bath salt 37 minutes ago.]]
* SpreeKiller: Begins with a crazed man running along a city indiscriminately attacking and trying to kill people.

!!N is for N[[spoiler:exus]]
From the USA. Directed by Larry Fessenden (''Film/{{Wendigo}}''). It's a HyperlinkStory sets in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity during Halloween. It involves 1) a man dressed up as a Frankenstein monster in a hurry to meet his girlfriend, who dressed up as the Bride of Frankenstein, 2) a taxi driver trying to solve a CrosswordPuzzle while driving to his passenger's destination, and 3) the man's girlfriend waiting for him.

* DeathOfAChild: A boy out trick-or-treating is killed when the bike flipped by the cab hits him in the head.
* DownerEnding: See HyperlinkStory.
* EmpathyDollShot: After the bike crashes into the trick-or-treater, there is a shot of his spilled Halloween candy lying in a pool of his blood.
* HyperlinkStory: It all later connects together at the end when [[spoiler:the taxi driver, who's lost in his crossword puzzle (the answer turns out to be [[TitleDrop nexus]]), accidentally hits the man's bike and kills him. The bike lands on the boy's head, which gives him (who got candy corn from the man's girlfriend in waiting) a fatal concussion. The man's girlfriend screams in horror after seeing this tragic accident]].
* ShoutOut: One of the people the man passes by is wearing a fox mask from ''Film/YoureNext'', which Fessenden starred in.

!!O is for O[[spoiler:chlocracy (mob rule)]]
From Japan. Directed by Hajime Ohata (Henge). It takes place in a post-apocalyptic society where zombies are the ruling class and the human survivors are put on trial for killing zombies for survival.

* HangingJudge: The judge is quick to sentence the defendant to death and never changes his mind.
* JokerJury: A courtroom consisting of (ex-)zombies tries humans who 'killed' them during a zombie plague.
* OffingTheOffspring: Justified. The woman's daughter was bitten by a zombie and she kills her by shooting her head.
* TheReveal: The reason why zombies got so smart and act like regular human beings is that the vaccination reverses the negative impacts of the zombie virus.
* UndeadChild: The daughter comes back as a zombie to testify against her mother.
* ZombieApocalypse: The segment takes place in a setting where nearly everyone has become zombies and zombies become the ruling class of the society.

!!P is for P[[spoiler:-P-P-P SCARY!]]
From the USA. Directed by Todd Rohal (Film/NatureCalls). It is about three prisoners who encounter a strange man and a baby.

* DramaticStutter: All the prisoners have a stutter brought on by nervousness and it's PlayedForLaughs.
* MonstrousHumanoid: The man the trio encounter could very well be this.
* {{Homage}}: The segment is an homage to black-and-white comedies like Film/TheThreeStooges.

!!Q is for Q[[spoiler:uestionnaire]]
From the USA. Directed by documentarian Rodney Ascher (Room 237, a documentary about conspiracy theories surrounding the movie ]]Film/TheShining''). It is about a man takes an intelligence test on the street, juxtaposed with footage of his brain being forcibly removed.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:The man's brain is put into the body of a gorilla.]]
* BrainTransplant: [[spoiler:The man's brain is put into the body of a gorilla.]]

!!R is for R[[spoiler:oulette]]
From Austria. Directed by Marvin Kren (Blutgletscher). It is about two men and a woman who play Russian roulette while hidden in a basement.

* GenreShift: It starts out like a period piece set during World War II. [[spoiler:But it's later revealed that it's set during the zombie apocalypse.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Once the husband realizes he is the loser, he shoots his wife's head instead of himself.]]
* RussianRoulette: It's in the title, isn't it? Though this one plays differently, as [[spoiler:the loser of the game ends up killing his wife, to spare her from a possibly worse fate]].
* ZombieApocalypse: [[spoiler:The sound from the surface implies that they are hiding from zombies.]]

!!S is for S[[spoiler:plit]]
From Spain, done in English. Directed by Juan Martinez Moreno. All done in a SplitScreen format and is a home invasion thriller about a woman attacked in her home by an intruder while her husband is in France.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:While we don't know if she ends up being arrested or not, the wife of the other man succeeds in killing the man's wife and child.]]
* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Inverted. The husband is having a gay affair with the intruder's husband and survives. As for his wife and child...]]
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:The baby is bludgeoned offscreen. We see the crib being covered in blood after.]]
* DoubleMeaningTitle: It is referring to the way the movie was presented and [[spoiler: the revelation of the man's gay affair with the intruder's husband]].
* DropTheHammer: The intruder uses a hammer to murder the man's wife [[spoiler:and child]].
* {{Homage}}: This one is an homage to the early works of Creator/BrianDePalma.
* RearWindowWitness: A man in France is on the phone to his wife when an intruder breaks into their home and attacks her with a hammer.

!!T is for T[[spoiler:orture Porn]]

From Canada. Directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska (Film/AmericanMary). It is about a woman who is treated in a sexist manner at an audition for a porno. Soon, this woman is revealed to be hiding something.

%%* AssShove: How the casting director is killed.
* HeManWomanHater: The men at the audition are disgustingly misogynist.
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:The woman is revealed to be a horrific creature with a humanoid form, with penises protruding from her body and killing everyone in the room.]]

!!U is for U[[spoiler:topia]]
From Canada. Directed by Vincenzo Natali ({{Film/Cube}}). The segment takes place in a world where everyone is perfectly beautiful and no ugly people are among the crowd.

%%* CrapsaccharineWorld
* KillItWithFire: The fate of "sub-normal" beings is to be cremated on the spot.
* MurderByCremation: A mobile unit travels around executing "sub-normals" by cremating them alive.
* PublicExecution: Anyone who's ugly and does not live up the standard beauty gets killed in broad daylight.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: This "utopia" sees ugly people as a flaw that needs to be wiped out so that only beautiful people exist.

!!V is for V[[spoiler:acation]]
From Canada. Directed by Jerome Sable (Stage Fright). It is a FoundFootage segment about a man who is on vacation overseas with his best friend as he video chats with his girlfriend at the hotel balcony. Behind the curtain, the man and his friend have been doing a wild alcohol and drug-fueled binge and have sex with mother and daughter prostitutes.

* ChekhovsGun: The man's best friend told the girlfriend about how the mother prostitute did some kind of sexual acts with a screwdriver. [[spoiler:She later use this to kill him.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:The mother prostitute stabs the man's best friend and pushes the man off the balcony. And the man's girlfriend witness this in horror.]]
* FoundFootage: The film is shot through a video chat between a man and his girlfriend.
* StraightManAndWiseGuy: Deconstructed. The sleazy best friend shows what they have been doing last night and the man tries to stop him showing the darker side of himself.

!!W is for W[[spoiler:ish]]
From Canada. Directed by Steven Kostanski ({{Film/Manborg}}), the special effect artist from Canadian filmmaking team Creator/{{Astron6}}. It is a deconstruction of children's action figure commercials. It starts out looking like a TV commercial for a toy called Champions of Zorb, and one of the kids playing with the figures wishes they could help the main hero. They're both transported to the fantasy world of Zorb, where the bloody war is happening.

* AndIMustScream: Oddly implied. As one of the boys rides an elevator to be taken to Zorb, he witnesses prisoners of war undergoing ColdBloodedTorture. One of them involved a living skeleton about to be branded. This might cross into FridgeHorror though, [[spoiler:considering the boy's friend was burnt to a crisp off-screen and could possibly be next in line for that.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: As the title would suggest, the boys learn that wishing to be in the world of their favorite action figures was a big mistake. The world of Zorb ends up being a MAJOR CrapsackWorld with [[TheBadGuyWins the bad guy winning the fictional war]]. And as it later shows, [[spoiler:[[WouldHurtAChild not even children are safe]]]]
* CreatorCameo: The Soska sisters appeared as twins ripping a heart from POW, played by Creator/DavidCronenberg's son Brandon.
* CreepyGood: Fantasy Man either fits this trope or EvilOldFolks, depending on how one interprets his intentions with the boy he rescues.
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:The first kid is killed by the villain Zorb while the other escapes with Fantasy Man, who mistakes the surviving boy for a princess.]]
* DeconstructiveParody: The segment is a deconstructive parody of children's toys commercials by demonstrating how the children fighting alongside the heroes would realistically play out.
* DirtyCoward: Prince Casio is revealed to be one in this reality, even pushing the boys down so [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he can flee the massacre]].
* EldritchAbomination: What we see of Zorb underneath his helmet is that there are tentacles protruding from his face.

* SubvertedKidsShow: A dark parody of your typical children's toy commercial where it ends badly for the kids wishing to fight alongside the hero.
* TrappedInTVLand: Two boys find themselves trapped in the world of the ads of their favourite action figures.
* WarIsHell: This segment shows the downsides of warfare in a kid's commercial!
* WhamShot: As Fantasy Man rides off with the "princess," the camera pans to a discarded sack... similar to the one Fantasy Man has imprisoned the boy in... and it's full of children skulls. Looks like Fantasy Man has some bad plans in mind for the child he "rescued."

!!X is for X[[spoiler:ylophone]]
From France. Directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo ({{Film/Inside|2007}}). It is about a grandmother (played by Maury and Bustillo's regular Beatrice Dalle) who is emotionally affected by her grandchild's xylophone.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:The child is made into a horrific mockery of the xylophone.]]
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Grandmother brutally murders her grandchild and turns her body into a gory version of the instrument she's playing.]]
* XylophonesForWalkingBones: [[spoiler:After the grandmother murders her granddaughter, she turns her body into a gory mockery of a xylophone: playing on the bones of her ribs.]]

!!Y is for Y[[spoiler:outh]]
From Japan. Directed by nationally renowned special makeup artist Soichi Umezawa in his directorial debut. It is about a teenage girl who violently fantasizes about her negligent parents' death.

* AbusiveParents: The girls' monologue lists out how many bad things her parents have done to her, like neglecting to take care of her dog, only giving her junk food for her school lunches, and her mother apparently molesting her when her stepfather wasn't in the mood for sex.
* AllWomenAreLustful: The girl certainly thinks this about her mother. The girl attributes much of her mother's neglect to her being distracted by lust since her husband died, and her stepfather isn't interested in sex. She implies that her mother may have molested her during her worst fits of horniness.
* FlippingTheBird: The girl ends up having a giant hand flipping the bird protrude from her crotch.
* PowerFantasy: The segment is about the girl fantasizing about using RealityWarping abilities to inflict horrific transformations and punishments upon her mother and stepfather.

!!Z is for Z[[spoiler:ygote]]
From Canada. Directed by Chris Nash, who submitted his entry for the previous 26th director contest called T is for Thread. It is about a pregnant woman who has been staving off birth for 13 years and is living with a 13-year-old inside her uterus after her husband left years ago.

* AmbiguousGender: Because the child has not been born, neither they nor their mother know what their gender is. Their voice is also ambiguous, as its high enough to either be a young girl or a boy whose voice hasn't deepened with puberty yet.
* AndIMustScream: Subverted. The 13-year-old child in the mother's womb really wants to come out but is not tormented by it.
* BodyHorror: See DeathByChildbirth below.
* DeathByChildbirth: Morbid example. [[spoiler:The mother runs out of her birth-delaying root, the child then proceeds to make more room for itself by killing and disemboweling the mother. The child then proceeds to wear the mother's skin.]]
* 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 have sex with his own child in the mother's skin, the effect is WAY more horrific than sexy.]]
* HereWeGoAgain: The father abruptly returns at the end, and after learning the mother "miscarried," simply says they'll try again and begins undressing her. [[spoiler:Possibly subverted, if the child wearing the mother's skin is genetically male, but it's not as if science is involved here.]]
* LongestPregnancyEver: One that lasts for 13 years.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler:Is the woman at the end really a 13-year-old child living in its mother's skin, or did the woman have an abortion/big miscarriage right before her husband returned?]]
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: The woman's {{jerkass}} husband leaves the house and she has to stave off the birth alone with years long supply of birth-delaying roots until he returns.
* 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 has lost the child she was carrying. [[spoiler:If you believe that the child has taken over her mother's body and is wearing her skin (and this is not just a delusion of the mother), then this would be a case of incest.]]

From the USA. Directed by Larry Fessenden (''Film/{{Wendigo}}''). It's a HyperlinkStory sets in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity during Halloween. It involves 1) a man dressed up as a Frankenstein monster in a hurry to meet his girlfriend, who dressed up as the Bride of Frankenstein, 2) a taxi driver trying to solve a crossword puzzle while driving to his passenger's destination, and 3) the man's girlfriend waiting for him.

From France. Directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo ({{Film/Inside}}). It is about a grandmother (played by Maury and Bustillo's regular Beatrice Dalle) who is emotionally affected by her grandchild's xylophone.

* DaylightHorror: This segment takes place during the daytime.

* DaylightHorror: The director would like to call it, "An act of cannibalism in a broad daylight."

From the USA. Directed by documentarian Rodney Ascher (Room 237, a documentary about conspiracy theories surrounding the movie Film/TheShining). It is about a man takes an intelligence test on the street, juxtaposed with footage of his brain being forcibly removed.

* AssShove: How the casting director is killed.

* CrapsaccharineWorld

* DaylightHorror: Justified in that the man calls his girlfriend early in the morning after they arrive. [[spoiler:The horror part kicks in when both of the men die, with her ForcedToWatch.]]

* [[ManOnFire Woman on Fire]]: The oldest son tries to kill his mother by setting her on fire. [[spoiler:She still lives.]]

* RealityEnsues: In fact, it is very difficult and outright dangerous to attempt an AirVentPassageway crawl, as the assassin finds out the hard way.

From the USA. Directed by E.L. Katz (Film/CheapThrills). It's about a hitman who was given an assignment to kill a drug dealer. He imagines a perfect execution of sneaking through air vents with the plan to enter the room via the dealer's penthouse and assassinate all the targets. However, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the reality says it differently in the worst way]].

* SpiritualSuccessor: To the duo's first film, ''Film/{{Inside}}''.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:He choose his friend over a woman. Both live happily in an island.]]

* TheMeanBrit: Peter is British and quite rude to his crew.