History Film / ABCsOfDeath2

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: The executioners die of decapitation in this segment.]]

* TragicMistake: [[spoiler:The man then gets his own head stuck inside by accident when trying to shove one of the decapitated heads that refused to budge, leading to his death.]]

* AssShove: The man "pays for life" by... shoving the [[spoiler:decapitated heads of his captors]] up the insect's asshole. [[spoiler:He then gets his own head stuck inside by accident, leading to his death.]]

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The man has his mortal head eaten by the bug, as his second body/soul is forced to watch and has its own head crushed underfoot by one of the reanimated captors, as the bug goes back to the portal to hell. [[SurrealHorror Or something like that.]]]]

From the Philippines. Directed by Erik Matti (Film/OnTheJob). It's about a family 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.

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

* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:The babysitter brutally murders the girl and turns her body into a gory version of the instrument she's playing.]]

* EvilOldFolks: The basic premise of the segment is that a man lives with his rotten grandfather.

* DerangedAnimation: It's often compared to {{Music/Tool}}'s music videos, with a touch of DavidFirth.

* PublicExecution: To anyone who's ugly and does not live up the standard beauty.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: The movie.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: As the title would suggest. 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]]]]

* CreepyGood: Fantasy Man either fits this trope or EvilOldFolks.

* DeconstructiveParody: Of childrens toys commercials.

* OneManArmy: Defied.
* WarIsHell: In a kid's commercial!

* AbusiveParents: Her monologue lists out how many bad things they have done to her.
* FlippingTheBird: A big one at that.
* PowerFantasy: The movie.

%%* BlackComedy
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of action movie tropes. Mostly AirVentPassageway.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The drug dealer masturbates and films a video of their make out.

%%* BloodyHilarious
%%* DaylightHorror

* TheMeanBrit: Peter
* SmugSnake: Peter

* ArcWords: ''You pay for life''

* BodyHorror: Combined with some really disturbing FacialHorror. Not to mention the cockroach after it is revived.

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: How the executioners die in this segment.]]

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:He choose his friend over a woman. Both lives happily in an island.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: The woman inspires this in one of the guys
%%* LoveTriangle
* ShoutOut: What [[Film/CastAway Wilson the volleyball]] is doing in this segment.

* ReversePsychology: She uses this to escape without getting killed by a boy.
%%* WarIsHell

* BerserkButton: Granddad can't stand being called a wanker.
* EvilOldFolks: The basic premise of the segment.

%%* SurrealHumor

* TheAgeless: The matriarch.
%%* BlackComedy

* ImmortalityInducer: The stone.
* OffWithHerHead: How the youngest kills her mother.
* [[ManOnFire Woman on Fire]]: How the oldest son kills his mother. [[spoiler:She still lives.]]

%%* ReligiousHorror

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: If you already knew the ending, it will remind you of the recent cannibalism incident in Florida.

* ShoutOut: One of the people the man passes by is wearing a fox mask from Film/YoureNext, which Fessenden starred in.

* HangingJudge: "Death!"

* ZombieApocalypse: And zombies become the ruling class of the society.

* DramaticStutter: All the prisoners have one and it's PlayedForLaughs.
* {{Homage}}: To Film/TheThreeStooges comedies.

* {{Homage}}: The early works of Creator/BrianDePalma.

* HeManWomanHater: The men at the audition.
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:The woman is revealed to be this, with penises protruding from her body and killing everyone in the room.]]

* KillItWithFire: The fate of "sub-normal".

* MeanBrit: Peter

* 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.]]

* WomanOnFire: How the oldest son kills his mother. [[spoiler:She still lives.]]

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.

* IAmAHumanitarian: Defied. The man bites off the bystander's ear and the policeman shoot him in his head.

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:The women is revealed to be this, with penises protruding from her body and killing everyone in the room.]]

* KillItWithFire: The fate of "sub-normal".

* InfantImmortality: Averted. [[spoiler:The baby is bludgeoned offscreen. We see the crib being covered in blood after.]]

* InfantImmortality: Averted. [[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.]]
* OneManArmy: Defied

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler:Averted. The babysitter brutally murders the girl and turns her body into a gory version of the instrument she's playing.]]

* ShoutOut: What [[CastAway Wilson the volleyball]] is doing in this segment.

From 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, [[RealityEnsues the reality says it differently in a worst way]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The hitman's target killed by a bullet from the dead hitman's silencer.]]

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: The drug dealer masturbate and take a video of their make 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 fall from the air vents.]]

From 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.

From UK. Directed by Julian Gilbey (Film/ALonelyPlaceToDie). It's about a town which handles local matters, including law and crimes, gives out 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.

* FromBadToWorse: Oh boy where do we begin? [[spoiler:The man confesses, but the town people 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, who fail on the first several attempts and finish the deed after the final swing.]]
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:The man has his head chopped off slowly by an axe.]]

A StopMotionAnimation directed by UK-based animator Robert Morgan. It's about a large bug that helps an executed man get revenge on his ghoulish killers.

* AssShove: The man "pays for life" by... shoving the [[spoiler:decapitated heads of his captors]] up the insect's asshole. [[spoiler:He then gets his own stuck inside by accident, leading to his death.]]

From Cuba. Directed by Alejandro Brugués (Film/JuanOfTheDead). It's about two castaways have their friendship tested when a beautiful woman washes ashore.

* ShoutOut: Why [[CastAway Wilson the volleyball]] is doing in this segement?

From UK. Directed by Jim Hosking. It's about a rude young man living with his grandfather and exasperates by his grandfather's retro taste and style. As he lay down on his bed, there is a noise beneath the mattress.

From USA. Directed by Bill Plympton. This hand drawn animated segment is about a man and woman kiss, which turns into a surreal power struggle.

From Philippine. Directed by Erik Matti (Film/OnTheJob). It's about a family 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.

* BuryYourGays: One of the men was murdered offscreen. [[spoiler:The other lives when the vengeful spirit kills his torturers.]]

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 other apartment to kill each other. The black liquid is now going after the woman who is alone in her own.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The segment begins with a woman doing her black pedicure. And then the black liquid is coming after her.

From Nigeria. Directed by {{UsefulNotes/Nollywood}} icon Lancelot Imasuen. It's about an African tribe's sacrificial ritual 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.]]

From 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 runs in his underwear down a street while knocking down several bystanders and attempts to eat someone.

* RippedFromTheHeadlines: If you already knew the ending, it will reminds you of the recent cannibalism incident in Florida.

From USA. Directed by Larry Fessenden (the producer of Film/StakeLand). It's a HyperlinkStory sets in UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity during Halloween. It involves 1) a man dressed up as a Frankenstein monster hurries 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.

* HyperlinkStory: It all later connects together at the end when [[spoiler:the taxi driver, who's minding in his crossword puzzle (the answer turns out to be [[TitleDrop nexus]]), accidentally hits the man's bike which kills him, and the bike lands on the boy's head, which gives the boy (who got candy corns 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 passing by is wearing a fox mask from Film/YoureNext, which Fessenden starred in.

From Japan. Directed by Hajime Ohata (Henge). It took place in a post-apocalypse society where zombies become the ruling class and the human survivors are put on trial for killing zombies for survival.

* TheReveal: The reason why zombies got so smart and act like a regular human beings is that the vaccination reverses the negative impacts of the zombie virus.

From USA. Directed by Todd Rohal (Film/NatureCalls). It is about three prisoners encounter a strange man and a baby.

* DramaticStutter: All prisoners have one and PlayedForLaughs.

From USA. Directed by a 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.

From Austria. Directed by Marvin Kren (Blutgletscher). It is about two men and a woman play Russian roulette while hidden in a basement.

* GenreShift: It starts out like a period piece set during World War II. [[spoiler:But it later reveals that it set during the zombie apocalypse.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Once the husband realize he is the loser, he shot his wife's head instead of himself.]]

From Spain, done in English language. Directed by Juan Martinez Moreno. All done in a SplitScreen and it is a home invasion thriller about a woman attacked in her home by an intruder while her husband is in France.

* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:Inverted. The husband is having a gay affair with the intruder's husband and survive. As for his wife and child...]]

From Canada. Directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska (Film/AmericanMary). It is about a woman is treated misogynistically at an audition for porno.

* HeManWomanHater: Men at the audition.

%%* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: the movie.

From Canada. Directed by Jerome Sable (Stage Fright). It is a FoundFootage segment about a man who is in vacation oversea with his best friend and video chat 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.

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:The mother prostitute stabs the man's best friend and push the man off the balcony. And the man's girlfriend witness this in horror.]]

From Canada. Directed by Steven Kostanski ({{Film/Manborg}}), the special effect artist from Canadian filmmaking team Creator/{{Astron6}}. It is a deconstruction of children action figures commercial. It starts out looking like a TV commercial for a toy called Champions of Zorb, and one of the kids playing the figures wish they could help the main hero. They 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 offscreen and could possibly be next in line for that.]]

* DeconstructiveParody: Of children toys commercial.

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

From Japan. Directed by a nationally renown special makeup artist Soichi Umezawa in his directorial debut. It is about a teenage girl violently fantasizes about her negligent parents' death.

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 living with a 13-year-old inside her uterus after her husband left years ago and has been reduced to living in a filthy, decaying home while hunting animals for sustenance.

* {{Deconstruction}}: of action movie tropes. Mostly AirVentPassageway.

* 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 fall from the air vents.]]

* CallBack: to Plympton's earlier surreal works about kissing.

%%* ImmortalityInducer: the stone.

%%* DeconstructiveParody: Of children toys commercial.

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

* OffingtheOffspring: Justified. The woman's daughter was bitten by a zombie and she kills her by shooting her head.

From Nigeria. Directed by {{Nollywood}} icon Lancelot Imasuen. It's about an African tribe's sacrificial ritual goes horribly wrong, which summons a demonic creature that attacks several villagers.

From USA. Directed by E.L. Katz (Film/CheapThrills). It's about a hitman who was given an assignment to kill a drug dealer. He imagine 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, [[RealityEnsues the reality says it differently in a worst way]].

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The hitman's target killed by a bullet from the dead hitman's silencer.]]

* 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 fall from the air vents.]]

* FromBadToWorse: Oh boy where do we begin?[[spoiler: The man confesses, but the town people 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, who fail on the first several attempts and finish the deed after the final swing.]]

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

* TakeAThirdOption: [[spoiler: One castaway decides to kill the girl by throwing a coconut at her head.]]

* PyrrhicVictory: Subverted. [[spoiler: All of them die without any victory.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: The youngest of the siblings gets the stone and she has to live forever like the now-dead matriarch.]]

* WomanOnFire: How the oldest son kills his mother. [[spoiler: She still lives.]]

* 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.]]

* 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 summons the monster.]]

* CreatorCameo: The director was with this man when [[spoiler: he's about to snort a bath salt.]]

* TheReveal: [[spoiler: This was all started when the man snorted bath salt 37 minutes ago.]]

* HyperlinkStory: It all later connects together at the end when [[spoiler: the taxi driver, who's minding in his crossword puzzle (the answer turns out to be [[TitleDrop nexus]]), accidentally hits the man's bike which kills him, and the bike lands on the boy's head, which gives the boy (who got candy corns from the man's girlfriend in waiting) a fatal concussion. The man's girlfriend screams in horror after seeing this tragic accident.]]

* GenreShift: It starts out like a period piece set during World War II. [[spoiler: But it later reveals that it set during the zombie apocalypse.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Once the husband realize he is the loser, he shot his wife's head instead of himself.]]

* ZombieApocalypse: [[spoiler: The sound from the surface implies that they are hiding from zombies.]]

* 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 push the man off the balcony. And the man's girlfriend witness this in horror.]]

From Canada. Directed by Steven Kostanski ({{Film/Manborg}}), the special effect artist from Canadian filmmaking team Creator/{{Astron6}}. It is a deconstruction of children action figures commercial. It starts out looking like a tv commercial for a toy called Champions of Zorb, and one of the kids playing the figures wish they could help the main hero. They both transported to the fantasy world of Zorb where the bloody war is happening.

* CreepyGood: Fantasy Man either fits this trope or EvilOldFolks .

* InfantImmortality: Averted. [[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.]]
* OneManArmy: Defied

* InfantImmortality: [[spoiler: Averted. The babysitter brutally murders the girl and turns her body into a gory version of the instrument she's playing.]]

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 living with a 13-year-old inside her stomach after her husband left years ago and has been reduced to living in a filthy, decaying home while hunting animals for sustenance.

* 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.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: [[spoiler: Is the woman at the end is really a 13-year-old child living in its mother's skin, or did woman had an abortion/big miscarriage right before her husband return?]]
* 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.

From UK. Directed by Julian Barrett (of 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.

From Brazil. Directed by Dennison Ramalho, who is known for making controversial short horrors 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.