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Directed by E.L. Katz (Cheap Thrills)
A hitman has been tasked with assassinating a notorious drug dealer and his gang. He imagines sneaking into the dealer's penthouse by crawling through the air ducts, managing to get all his targets caught off guard. Unfortunately, when he tries putting his plan into action, reality sets in in the worst possible way.
- Air-Vent Passageway: The assassin imagines crawling through the air vents in classic movie fashion. In reality, he finds that the vent is cramped, dirty, vermin-infested, and filled with sharp points. He ultimately gets himself stuck in there and ends up bleeding out, his corpse being discovered three weeks later.
- Bittersweet Ending: The hitman gets himself killed in the air vents, but his target is killed by a bullet from the dead man's gun.
- Black Comedy: Some dark humor can be found in the hitman managing to kill his target posthumously.
- Deconstruction: Of the Air-Vent Passageway trope, as the assassin shows how travelling through air ducts is a sure way to get one's self harmed or even killed.
- Didn't Think This Through: The hitman imagines himself flawlessly using an Air-Vent Passageway to get the drop on the dealer, only to learn the hard way that a person can't actually fit inside an air vent without getting stuck.
- Girl on Girl Is Hot: The drug dealer masturbates to a film where a pair of girls make out.
- Gone Horribly Right: The hitman dies from blood loss while crawling through air vents, but the drug dealer still ends up killed, since the hitman's gun goes off and shoots him when his corpse falls from the vents.
- Reliably Unreliable Guns: The assassin manages to complete his assignment when his corpse falls out of the air duct. His gun goes off when it hits the floor, shooting the drug dealer in the neck.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: It is, in fact, very difficult to attempt an Air-Vent Passageway crawl, if not outright dangerous, as the assassin finds out the hard way.
Directed by Julian Barrett (The Mighty Boosh)
Peter Toland (played by Barrett himself) is a narcissistic filmmaker who berates his crew while trying to film his latest project. The project happens to be a wildlife documentary about badgers that have been potentially endangered by the waste produced by a local power plant.
- Bad Ol' Badger: There are no badgers actually seen, but at least one of them is implied to have mutated into a giant, man-eating beast after exposure to the power plant's waste.
- Bloody Hilarious: There is a lot of bloody violence in this segment, and it's largely played for laughs.
- Found Footage: Justified, since Peter is trying to put on a respectable documentary.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: After Peter is dragged into the mutated badger's sett, he is shot back out torn in half.
- Killer Rabbit: The unseen, mutated badger. Badgers can be dangerous in reality, but not to this extent.
- Prima Donna Director: Peter acts condescending and arrogant to his crew as he tries to call the shots.
Directed by Julian Gilbey (A Lonely Place to Die)
The citizens of a small town have overheard the case of Fletcher Powell, a man who supposedly kidnapped and murdered the teenage Lucy Wilson. Forming themselves into a kangaroo court, they call for his immediate execution. Fletcher tries to proclaim his innocence and suggests that they just call the police, to which the locals promise to call the police if he confesses. After confessing, however, the locals plan to kill Fletcher anyway, but once two of them learn the truth about his innocence, they race to stop the execution.
- Downer Ending: Fletcher is given a slow and agonizing death, and it turns out that he was innocent all along.
- Failure Hero: A pair of men in the local pub are given word that Lucy is still alive, so they race to stop Fletcher's execution. Their reckless driving only leads them to slam into a tree and die.
- From Bad to Worse: Oh boy, where do we begin? For starters, Fletcher confesses his innocence, but the townspeople still give him the death penalty. On the way to the forest where the execution is scheduled to take place, Lucy turns out to be alive. Discovering their mistake, two men attempt to stop the execution, only to die in a car accident. Fletcher's execution is then performed by beheading, but it fails several times, leaving him in agonizing pain.
- Kangaroo Court: Fletcher is sentenced to death by a "court" of locals who have absolutely no authority to do so, which he even explains to them point-blank. The "jurors" are even identified in the credits as "The Kangaroo Court".
- Karma Houdini: The "court" that executes Fletcher gets no comeuppance for slowly and gruesomely murdering a wrongfully accused man.
- Off with His Head!: Fletcher's death comes from his head slowly being chopped off by an axe.
- Pædo Hunt: The teenage Lucy is said to have been missing because she ran away with a 26-year-old man who claimed to be her boyfriend.
Directed by Robert Morgan (Stop Motion)
In a stop-motion animated segment, a man is held prisoner and killed by a trio of fleshy ghouls. A giant, demonic insect soon appears in the cell and creates an identical clone of the murdered man, allowing him to get revenge on his ghoulish killers. The only stipulation is that the insect insists the victim "pays" for his new life.
- Animalistic Abomination: The giant louse only barely resembles the regular louse it crawls out of.
- Arc Words: "You pay for life", which is spoken throughout the segment.
- Ass Shove: The man "pays for life" by shoving the decapitated heads of his captors inside the demonic louse's asshole, where it devours them.
- Body Horror: This segment features rather gruesome mutilations of the human body, combined with some really disturbing Facial Horror. Not to mention the the demonic louse.
- Deranged Animation: The segment's animation is often compared to a tool video, with a touch of David Firth.
- Downer Ending: The man's second body/soul is forced to watch his mortal head being eaten by the louse, then sees his now-decayed head spitefully crushed underfoot by one of his reanimated captors as the insect goes back to Hell. Or something like that.
- Off with His Head!: The executioners die of decapitation, but they briefly reanimate.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The demonic insect helps the murdered man get his revenge, rather forcibly so.
- Strapped to an Operating Table: The man is first seen strapped to an operating table, waiting for his killers to arrive.
- Tragic Mistake: After disposing of his killers, the man gets his head stuck inside the insect's anus when trying to push one of the decapitated heads that refused to budge, leading to his second death.
- The Unintelligible: Every character speaks in indecipherable roars and gibbering. The only voice we hear in the entire short is the demonic bug.
Directed by Alejandro Brugués (Juan of the Dead)
Two castaways on a deserted island live a life free of cares or excitement. That soon changes when a beautiful woman washes up on the shores of the island and grows attracted to one of the castaways, putting their friendship in jeopardy.
- Bittersweet Ending: The man who the woman falls in love with chooses his friend over her. So he kills her with a coconut and the two men continue living happily on the island.
- Coconut Meets Cranium: The woman is killed when one the men throws a coconut directly at her head.
- Deserted Island: The segment is set on an island inhabited by two castaways, whose friendship is put at risk when a woman washes up on the beach.
- Faint in Shock: The woman immediately passes out when she realizes she's washed up on an island. Right after she regains consciousness, in fact.
- Green-Eyed Monster: The woman inspires jealousy in one of the men.
- Love Triangle: The castaways start fighting over the affections of the woman.
- Made of Plasticine: The woman is somehow killed instantly by a coconut to the forehead.
- Shout-Out: A replica of Wilson the volleyball makes a brief appearance.
- Take a Third Option: One castaway decides to kill the woman by throwing a coconut at her head, choosing to save his friendship with the other.
Directed by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Big Bad Wolves)
After a bungled dive, an Israeli paratrooper gets stuck in a tree by her parachute. A teenage Arab boy discovers her and, recognizing her to be from an enemy nation, threatens to kill her with his rifle. The paratrooper tries to reason with the boy and pleads for him to cut her loose, but the boy has his doubts.
- Downer Ending: At the very end of the segment, the Israeli soldier looks up to see the Arabian boy's reinforcements arriving and pointing their weapons at her as she kneels over the boy's dead body, no doubt jumping to conclusions and planning to shoot her dead.
- Made of Plasticine: The paratrooper's leg badly breaks, to the point where bone bursts right through the skin, from a 2-3 foot fall. Israel must have a dairy shortage.
- Parachute in a Tree: The Israeli paratrooper starts the segment dangling from a tree by her parachute.
- Reliably Unreliable Guns: The Arab teen is killed when his rifle, which he drops from the tree, goes off and shoots him.
- Reverse Psychology: The Israeli uses this to trick the Arab boy into letting her go instead of killing her, getting into his head about having him take all the credit for her capture.
- War Is Hell: The segment clearly shows war in a negative light.
Directed by Jim Hosking (The Greasy Strangler)
A rude and impatient young man has been living with his grandfather for the past year, and is exasperated by his grandfather's retro taste and style. As he lays down in his bed that night, the man discovers a dark secret regarding his granddad.
- Berserk Button: The grandfather can't stand being called a "wanker" because he doesn't have a penis.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The grandfather acts so rotten and ultimately stabs his grandson to death because he has no penis.
- Evil Old Folks: The grandfather, whose grandson lives with him. Of course, the grandson isn't a saint himself.
- Generation Xerox: The grandson and his grandad are almost completely identical. Both in appearance and demeanor.
- It Tastes Like Feet: The grandson insults his grandfather's cognac by claiming he's had "wee-wees" that have tasted better.
- Offing the Offspring: The grandfather ends up stabbing his grandchild in the neck, leaving him to bleed to death.
Directed by Bill Plympton
In a hand-drawn animated segment, a man and woman engaging in a passionate kiss suddenly have their faces turn into various weapons, leading to a very surreal power struggle.
- Call-Back: To Plympton's earlier works about kissing.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Subverted. The war results in the couples' heads being reduced to empty holes.
- Surreal Humor: It's a Bill Plympton short, so of course there'd be absurd and surreal visuals for comedic purposes.
A family tries to kill their matriarch for their inheritance. Their struggles are in vain, thanks to the fact that the matriarch possesses an ornate stone that makes its current host immortal and invulnerable.
- The Ageless: Thanks to the stone, the matriarch is 120 years old, and doesn't appear to have aged as much.
- Big, Screwed-Up Family: The one featured here tries in vain to murder their immortal matriarch for their inheritance, and the matriarch herself isn't making things easy for them.
- Black Comedy: The mortal injuries the matriarch survives are all played for dark laughs.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Somewhat subverted. The youngest of the siblings, Carmela, ends up swallowing the stone and finally killing the matriarch. But as her siblings prepare to set up the funeral and divvy their inheritance, Carmela appears to be choking on the stone. So if she does live forever, she may end up in a permanent state of agony.
- Immortality Inducer: The matriarch's stone enables whoever wields it to live forever.
- Man on Fire: The oldest son tries to kill his mother by setting her on fire, but she still lives.
- Off with Her Head!: Carmela tries to kill the matriarch by cutting off her head, but it still fails.
- Reusable Lighter Toss: The eldest son soaks his mother in gasoline and lights her up by throwing his Zippo into her lap.
Directed by Dennison Ramalho
A wealthy businessman hires a pair of religious fundamentalists to abduct his gay son and "cleanse" him. During his torture, the son hallucinates his captors as demons, but he begins having visions of the spirit of his lover, who his captors previously killed on his father's behalf.
- Abusive Parents: The gay man's father hires a pair of fundamentalists to "cleanse" his son and kill his lover, and even though his lackeys are killed, he's still at large.
- Bring My Brown Pants: The son urinates himself as he is being threatened by his captors.
- Bury Your Gays: The fundamentalists murdered the gay man's lover offscreen. The lover's vengeful spirit gets to return the favor.
- Cure Your Gays: A wealthy businessman hires a pair of religious nutjobs to kidnap his gay son and exorcise his gayness.
- Electric Torture: During their attempt to cure the son's gayness, the fundamentalists take jumper cables connected to a car battery and apply them to his genitals.
- Gay Aesop: The gay man's dead lover comes back as a ghost, kills the fundamentalists who were torturing him, and tattoos the words "Love is the Law" on his soulmate's arm.
- Karma Houdini: Though the men he hires to "cleanse" him are killed, the gay man's father gets away with hiring them in the first place, and he may likely just hire more.
- Offing the Offspring: The gay man's father orders the fundamentalists to kidnap his son and torture him for being gay as a means to "cure" him.
- Religious Horror: The segment is directed by Dennison Ramalho, who is known for making controversial horror shorts that deal with religious fundamentalism. In this case, the fundamentalists torturing the gay man end up killed by the vengeful spirit of the man's lover, most likely as punishment for using their religious beliefs as an excuse to torture a man who they see as "wrong".
- Through the Eyes of Madness: The gay man sees the fundamentalists who are torturing him as horrific, eyeless demons.
Directed by Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (Vanishing Waves)
A young woman looks out her window to observe a giant, floating sphere of black liquid hovering over the apartment building across the street, causing all the residents of said building to go insane and kill each other. When the tenants stare at her from their windows, she attempts to escape as the liquid sphere makes its way to her own building.
- Cosmic Horror Story: The directors have cited H. P. Lovecraft as one of their influences for the segment.
- Eldritch Abomination: The Sphere, a large spherical mass of black liquid hovering in the sky over the apartment complex across the way. It influences the people in that building to murder each other, then causes our protagonist to bleed profusely when it reappears outside her door.
- Foreshadowing: The segment begins with the woman painting her nails with black nail-polish, just before the Sphere is introduced.
- Hate Plague: The liquid composing the Sphere induces violence and insanity in all that it approaches.
- "Rear Window" Witness: From her balcony, the woman witnesses multiple murders being committed in the apartment block opposite hers.
Directed by Nollywood icon Lancelot Imasuen
Ogiso Owodo, a noble priest, is commanded by Queen Esaogho to ritualistically sacrifice the King's son so his harem can birth more male children. Horrified at the prospect of taking a life, especially one of the Royal Family, Ogiso instead releases him and kills a rat, bathing his sword with its blood. As a result of his bungling the ritual, Ogiso accidentally summons the demon Ubini, which attacks several villagers.
- Stupid Sacrifice: Ogiso sacrifices a random rat instead of the King's son, as the Queen commanded. In doing this, he summons Ubini, which destroys the village.
Directed by Robert Boocheck
In a segment shot mostly in slow motion, Patrick Daniel, a man with a crazed look on his face and clad only in his underwear, barrels down a city street, knocking down several bystanders and biting a random civilian's ear off.
- Creator Cameo: Director Robert Boocheck plays Patrick's friend, who invited him to do the bath salts that made him go crazy.
- Drugs Are Bad: Patrick's cannibalistic rampage turns out to be the result of him snorting bath salts 34 minutes ago.
- Ear Ache: While high on bath salts, Patrick tackles a bystander and bites his ear off.
- How We Got Here: The final scene of the segment explains how all of this started.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Defied. The crazed Patrick bites off a bystander's ear, prompting a nearby cop to shoot him dead.
- Man Bites Man: Patrick attacks the bystander he knocked down and rips his ear off with his teeth.
- The Reveal: The final scene reveals that this whole mess started because Patrick snorted some bath salts 34 minutes earlier.
- Spree Killer: The majority of the segment features Patrick, high out of his mind, running down a city street while indiscriminately attacking and trying to kill people.
Directed by Larry Fessenden (Wendigo)
It's Halloween in New York City, and a man dressed as Frankenstein's Monster is in a hurry to meet his girlfriend, who is dressed as the Bride, for a party. Also appearing is a taxi driver too distracted with a Crossword Puzzle to know where he's taking his latest passenger, and a young boy who is eagerly trick-or-treating with his father. All of these characters end up meeting each other in the worst situation imaginable.
- Bookends: The story begins and ends with the Bride screaming.
- Death of a Child: The trick-or-treating boy is killed when Frankenstein's bike is flipped by the cab and crushes his head.
- Downer Ending: Frankenstein and the trick-or-treater are dead, the Bride is traumatized, and the cab driver is likely going to face a lot of legal trouble.
- Empathy Doll Shot: After the bike crashes into the trick-or-treater, we're given a shot of his spilled candy lying in a pool of his blood.
- Hyperlink Story: The segment gets its name with the way its characters and their storylines are interconnected. Specifically, the taxi driver, who's too lost in his crossword puzzle to notice anything (the answer he's searching for turns out to be "Nexus"), accidentally hits Frankenstein with his cab and kills him. In the process, Frankenstein's bike is launched into the air and lands on the trick-or-treater's head, which gives him a fatal concussion. After witnessing the tragic accident, the boy's father weeps, the cabbie's passenger gasps in shock, and the Bride screams in horror.
- Shout-Out: One of the people Frankenstein passes by is wearing a fox mask from You're Next, which the segment's director Larry Fessenden starred in.
Directed by Hajime Ohata (Henge)
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.
- Deconstructed Character Archetype: Kana is a deconstruction of zombie movie protagonists, as the now-sapient zombies view her as a lunatic who has killed several of their kind, seemingly proven through flashbacks of the initial outbreak. Even though she claims her actions were performed in the name of her and her daughter's safety/well-being, the zombies beg to differ, to the point where the severed head of (presumably) one of her victims screams incessantly when it is injected with Z-cu and asked if it recognizes her. Even the now-undead Mai labels her mother as a monster, claiming that she "enjoyed" killing her fellow zombies.
- Deconstructive Parody: Of Zombie Apocalypse movies. The zombies seen here have gained intelligence and sapience due to Z-cu, a cure for the plague which created them, and they quickly condemn Kana and the other humans left alive for the slaughter of thousands of their kind.
- Excrement Statement: A particularly hot-blooded zombie in the courtroom hurls shit at Kana as she pleads self-defense.
- Hanging Judge: The judge is quick to sentence every one of his defendants to death, and never once changes his mind.
- Joker Jury: A courtroom of thinking and reasoning zombies tries humans who 'killed' them during a zombie plague.
- Not Helping Your Case: After trying to prove that her killing of the zombies was to save her and her daughter's lives, Kana hurls bigoted insults at them as she's strapped in the electric chair, not even trying to save herself anymore.
- Offing the Offspring: Justified. Mai was bitten early in the outbreak, so Kana was "forced" to kill her by shooting her in the head. She's brought in as a witness for her mother's trial, claiming that she "enjoyed" the act of killing zombies indiscriminately.
- The Reveal: The zombies were given intelligence and sapience by Z-cu, a vaccine that reverses the negative impacts of the zombie virus, such as flesh-eating.
- Undead Child: Mai, who was shot in the head after being bitten, comes back as a zombie to testify against her mother.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Mai is called as a witness to her mother's trial, where her testimony cements her mother's fate. As she's being dragged away, Mai asks why her mother didn't even take the time to give her a proper burial.
- Zombie Apocalypse: The segment takes place in the aftermath of one. A vaccine created to stop the zombie plague allowed the zombies to be given sapience, and from there, they became the ruling class of society, condemning humans left alive for the massacre of thousands of their kind.
Directed by Todd Rohal (Nature Calls)
In a comedic, black and white segment, escaped prisoners Kirby, Poppy, and Bart find themselves stuck in a void with only a man and his baby for company, and things get worse when the trio start melting into puddles.
- Denser and Wackier: The segment appears to be this as a means to honor the old black and white comedies from the 1930s, but then it gets weird.
- Dramatic Stutter: The trio each have an over-the-top stutter brought on by nervousness, which is naturally Played for Laughs.
- Gag Nose: Kirby and Bart both have comically lengthened noses.
- Homage: The segment is an homage to 1930s black-and-white comedies like The Three Stooges.
- Monstrous Humanoid: The man and baby the trio encounter in the void, given their abilities and uncanny distorting faces.
Directed by documentarian Rodney Ascher (Room 237, a documentary about conspiracy theories surrounding The Shining)
A man is seen taking an intelligence-measuring test on the street, juxtaposed with footage of him getting his brain ripped out and forcibly transplanted into a gorilla's head.
- Affably Evil: The woman measuring the man's intelligence works for a sinister cabal who put his brain inside a gorilla, but she never drops her professional or pleasant demeanor during his test.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Whoever was in charge of the test, they get away with putting the man's brain inside a gorilla. For whatever reason.
- Brain Transplant: The man's brain is put into the body of a gorilla.
Directed by Marvin Kren (Blutgletscher)
Three people, married couple Michael and Nina, along with their friend Klaus, are seen sitting in a basement, passing the time with a game of Russian Roulette. The trio soon start getting paranoid and distrustful of one another as the bullet count gets lower and lower.
- Genre Shift: The segment starts out like a period piece set during World War II. The ending reveals that it's set during a zombie apocalypse.
- Mercy Kill: Once Michael realizes he's the loser, he shoots Nina instead of himself, doing so to keep her from getting eaten by the zombies just outside their door.
- Russian Roulette: It's right there in the title. This version plays differently, as Michael ends up using the last bullet to kill Nina, to spare her from a possibly worse fate.
- Zombie Apocalypse: The segment is revealed to be set during one, as the audience can hear the sounds of the dead through the basement door.
Directed by Juan Martinez Moreno
In a segment shown entirely through a Split Screen format, an intruder breaks into Miriam Walters' house and attacks her and her baby while her husband Robert is away in France. Why exactly the intruder does this remains to be seen.
- The Bad Guy Wins: We don't know if she ends up being arrested or not, but the wife of Robert's lover succeeds in killing Miriam and his child.
- Bludgeoned to Death: The intruder uses a hammer to murder Miriam and her child.
- Bury Your Gays: Inverted. Robert is having a gay affair with the intruder's husband, but the lover's wife kills his wife and infant child instead.
- Death of a Child: Robert's baby is bludgeoned to death offscreen. We see the crib being covered in blood after the deed is done.
- Double-Meaning Title: The title refers to the numerous splitscreens used to display the segment, and the revelation of Robert's gay affair with the intruder's husband.
- Homage: The segment is one to the early works of Brian De Palma.
- "Rear Window" Witness: Robert calls his wife from France, when an intruder breaks into their home and attacks her and his child with a hammer.
Directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska (American Mary)
Yumi, an aspiring actress, arrives at an audition run by loathesome and misogynistic filmmakers. While preparing for a porn shoot, largely for the filmmakers to have their way with her, Yumi soon springs a little surprise on her would-be assailants.
- Asshole Victim: The film crew, who are atrocious towards Yumi and women in general.
- Death by Irony: After sexually harassing Yumi for their film, she breaks out her tentacles and viciously kills them, sexually assaulting them the same way they did her.
- He-Man Woman Hater: The men at Yumi's audition are disgustingly misogynist.
- Humanoid Abomination: Yumi is largely humanoid, but she has black eyes with blue pupils, a Voice of the Legion, and a collection of penis-like tentacles protruding from her crotch. She uses these to kill the men when they molest her for their "shoot".
- The Stinger: Audio from this segment is used for a short clip at the very end of the film itself, where a man masturbating to the segment quickly finds himself turned off.
Directed by Vincenzo Natali
In a futuristic world where everyone is happy, beautiful, and overall perfect, a homely, balding, slightly overweight man begins getting suspicious when everyone stops what they're doing and stares at him. And for good reason...
- Arc Symbol: The letter "U", which acts as the society's logo, is seen plastered on every article of clothing, every object, and every piece of machinery.
- Crapsaccharine World: The segment's futuristic world is happy and prosperous, but all those who aren't like everyone else in appearance are eradicated.
- Kill It with Fire: All "sub-norm" beings, like our unfortunate protagonist, are cremated on the spot.
- Murder by Cremation: A mobile unit that travels around looking for "sub-norms" kills them by cremating them alive.
- Public Execution: As seen with our protagonist, anyone who's seen as ugly or just doesn't live up the world's standards of beauty is killed in broad daylight.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Children eagerly watch and applaud as the protagonist is roasted alive.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: The titular "utopia" sees ugly people as a flaw that need to be wiped out so that only beautiful people exist.
Directed by Jerome Sable (Stage Fright)
In a Found Footage segment, Curt video chats with his girlfriend Amber while he and his best friend Dylan are on vacation overseas. When Dylan awakens, he swipes the phone to reveal that he and Curt went on a wild booze and drug-fueled binge and have hooked up with Kim and Rose, a mother/daughter pair of prostitutes, driving Amber to tears. Things only get worse when the prostitutes wake up.
- Chekhov's Gun: Dylan tells Amber about how Rose did some kind of sexual act with a screwdriver. She later uses the same screwdriver to kill him.
- The Dog Bites Back: Rose stabs Dylan and throws Curt off the balcony, all while a horrified Amber can do nothing but watch.
- Found Footage: The segment is shot through a video chat between Curt and Amber.
- Mama Bear: Rose promptly kills Dylan and Curt when the latter aggresively smacks her daughter.
- Straight Man and Wise Guy: Deconstructed. Curt's sleazy best friend Dylan shows Amber what her boyfriend was up to last night, prompting Curt to try and stop him from showing Amber his dark side.
Directed by Steven Kostanski (Manborg), the special effect artist from Canadian filmmaking team Astron6.
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.
- And I Must Scream: Oddly implied. As one of the boys rides an elevator to be taken to Zorb's throne room, he witnesses prisoners undergoing Cold-Blooded Torture, one of which involves a living skeleton about to be branded. This might cross into
Fridge Horror though, considering the boy's friend was burnt to a crisp offscreen and he could possibly be next in line. - Be Careful What You Wish For: As the title suggests, the boys learn that wishing to be in the world of their favorite action figures was a HUGE mistake. The world of Zorb ends up being a MAJOR Crapsack World with the evil Zorb winning the fictional war. As it later shows, not even children are safe here.
- Creator Cameo: The Soska sisters appear as twins ripping out the heart of a POW, played by David Cronenberg's son Brandon.
- Creepy Good: Fantasy Man either fits this trope or Evil Old Folks, depending on how one interprets his intentions with the boy he "rescues".
- Death of a Child: One of the kids is killed by Zorb while the other is abducted by Fantasy Man, who mistakes him for a princess.
- Deconstructive Parody: The segment is a deconstructive parody of children's toys commercials, demonstrating how children actually fighting alongside the heroes would realistically play out.
- Dirty Coward: Prince Casio is revealed to be one in the actual realm of Zorb, even pushing the boys down so he can flee the massacre.
- Eldritch Abomination: Underneath his helmet, we see that Zorb has tentacles protruding from his face.
- One-Man Army: Defied. Zorb's army wins because they have strength in numbers.
- Subverted Kids' Show: The segment is a dark parody of typical children's toy commercials, where it ends very badly for the kids who wished to fight alongside their hero.
- Trapped in TV Land: Two boys find themselves trapped in the world of Zorb, based on the ads of their favourite action figures.
- War Is Hell: This segment shows the downsides of warfare in a kid's commercial.
- Wham Shot: As Fantasy Man rides off with his "princess," the camera pans to a discarded sack similar to the one Fantasy Man imprisoned the boy in... which is filled with children's skulls. Fantasy Man very likely has some very bad ideas in mind for the child he "rescued."
Directed by Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (Inside (2007))
An old woman tries listening to a record while her granddaughter bangs and clangs on a xylophone. It gets to the point where the old woman does something rather extreme about the noise problem.
- Body Horror: The granddaughter's body is turned into a horrific mockery of her xylophone.
- Death of a Child: The grandmother brutally murders her grandchild and turns her body into a gory xylophone.
- Disproportionate Retribution: The old woman kills her grandchild and turns her into a xylophone because the noise she was making kept her from listening to her record.
- My God, What Have I Done?: This is written on the grandmother's face when she snaps out of her manic state, tearfully staring up at the parents whose kid she murdered.
- Xylophones for Walking Bones: After the old woman murders her granddaughter, she turns the body into a gory mockery of a xylophone, playing notes on her rib bones.
Directed by makeup artist Soichi Umezawa in his directorial debut
Teenage Miyuki narrates a letter she's writing to her parents. The letter goes into detail about how they neglect and/or abuse her, which is demonstrated with how she imagines her problems regarding them physically manifesting to kill them on her orders.
- Abusive Parents: Miyuki's monologue lists the many bad things her parents have done to her, like her stepfather neglecting to take care of her dog, her mother only giving her junk food for her school lunches, and her mother molesting her when her stepfather wasn't in the mood for sex.
- All Women Are Lustful: Miyuki's mother, who she attributes much of her neglect to being distracted by lust since her husband died, and her stepfather isn't interested in sex. She also implies that her mother has molested her during her worst fits of horniness.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Miyuki's letter does this to both her mother and her stepfather, and the end of the segment makes it look like she's going to physically attack them.
- Flipping the Bird: Miyuki ends up having a giant hand flipping the bird protrude from her crotch.
- Humiliation Conga: Miyuki's parents end up going through bloody ones in their daughter's fantasies.
- Power Fantasy: Miyuki fantasizes about using Reality Warping abilities to inflict horrific transformations and punishments upon her abusive/neglectful mother and stepfather.
Directed by Chris Nash
A pregnant woman is left behind in her rustic cabin home while her husband goes off in search of "Portlock root" to prevent the child from being born. 13 years soon pass, and the child has continued to grow all that time, able to speak to her from within her uterus. The child also wants to finally be born, and isn't above using force to finally enter the world.
- Affably Evil: The child continues being calm and polite towards their mother as they force her organs and bones out through her mouth and wear her skin.
- Ambiguous Gender: Because the child hasn't been born, neither they nor their mother know what their gender is. Their voice is also ambiguous, being high enough to either be a young girl, or a boy whose voice hasn't deepened yet.
- And I Must Scream: Subverted. The child really wants to come out of their mother's womb, but they're not particularly tormented by it.
- Death by Childbirth: A particularly morbid example. The mother runs out of Portlock root, at which point the child makes room for itself by killing and disemboweling the mother from the inside. By the end of the segment, the child wears its mother's skin.
- Dress Hits Floor: The last shot is of the mother's dress landing at her feet as the father undresses her. Considering he's about to unknowingly have sex with his own child in his wife's skin, the effect is more horrific than sexy.
- Exact Words: The child promises that they won't leave their mother alone, and manages to live up to that promise without being born: they remove her bones and organs through her mouth and wear her skin.
- Here We Go Again!: The father abruptly returns at the end, where the child, in his wife's skin, claims she miscarried and had to cut the fetus out of her. The father isn't bothered and simply says they'll try again as he begins undressing her.
- Longest Pregnancy Ever: Portlock root can be used to suspend or delay the birthing process, and the mother's ample supply has allowed her to stave off birthing her child for 13 years.
- My Beloved Smother: The woman refuses to birth the baby because she doesn't want to be left alone without her husband.
- Please, Don't Leave Me: The woman's husband leaves the house for more Portlock root, and she has to stave off the birth alone with a years-long supply of the stuff until he returns.
- Surprise Incest: At the end the segment, the husband is about to take his "wife" to bed to make another baby after she tells him that she lost the child she was carrying. What he doesn't know is that he's about to make love to his own child, who took over the mother's body and is wearing her skin.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: All the child want is to be born, and they don't want to keep causing their mother any physical pain. Despite this, they disembowel her from the inside out and wear her skin to finally get a "proper" life.
