Things get pretty blood pretty fast in this NSFW trailer for The ABCs of Death, which hits viewers over the head with a variety of wildly creative fatalities. There’s plenty of red splatter (although at least some of it is ketchup.)
The upcoming anthology movie, slated for 2012 release, will feature horror shorts from 25 hot genre-film directors, plus one “wildcard” filmmaker chosen in part by online voters. The search for the 26th director has yielded 170 short films submitted by filmmakers from around the world, according to a press release for the project.
“The number of entries exceeded all expectations and so did the level of creativity and imagination on display,” said producers Ant Timpson and Tim League in the release. “The talent shown in several submissions has been world-class and foretells of a great future for horror cinema.”
Looking for some cheap thrills this weekend? Watch shorts submitted and vote for your favorites on the ABCs of Death website. Voting ends, appropriately enough, on Oct. 31.
The ABCs of Death Official Synopsis
“From the directors of House of the Devil, Hobo With a Shotgun, A Serbian Film, You’re Next & many more comes the genre film event of 2012.
“26 directors — 26 ways to die. The ABCs of Deathis an ambitious anthology film featuring segments directed by over two dozen of the world’s leading talents in contemporary genre film. Inspired by children’s educational books, The ABCs of Death is comprised of 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were given free reign to choose a word to represent a form of death based on their letter.
“Provocative, shocking, funny and confrontational, The ABCs of Death is the definitive vision of modern horror diversity. Drafthouse Films, Magnet Pictures and Timpson Films are proud to present this alphabetical arsenal of destruction orchestrated by what Fangoria calls ‘a stunning roll call of some of the most exciting names in horror across the world.'”
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