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Wenn 22 weltweit einschlägige Genrefilme-Macher eine Geschichte über den Tod abliefern sollen, wird eines schnell klar: Hier kommt eine Menge verrückt - krasses Zeug zusammen.Schockierend, exotisch und voll Ironie ist 22 WAYS TO DIE eine Vision der modernen Horror-Vielfalt. (Capelight Pictures)
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"The ABCs of the Dead" is an interesting mosaic, but there is one major problem. There are not many films that truly stand out. I don't think it's because the short format is inadequate, but rather because the authors wanted to play around and as a result, created imaginative but uninteresting pieces. Brutality is frequent here, yet mundane and exaggerated, and there are very few good punchlines. It is intriguing as a showcase of different styles and approaches, but as a cohesive work, it is incredibly weak. ()
Massive disappointment. Very few truly good segments, mostly average and below par + something absolutely appalling here and there. The idea of bringing together renowned modern horror filmmakers from all over the world, assign them a letter of the alphabet and let them make a short with death as the theme is not bad. But the result is an incredibly unfocused mix of very inconsistent quality. The good ones are Y Is for Youngbuck by Jason Eisener, X Is for XXL by Xavier Gens, D Is for Dogfight by Marcelo Sarmiento, L is for Libido by Timo Tjahjanto, U Is for Unearthed by Ben Wheatley, and Q Is for Quack by Adam Wingard. So, 6 out 26, which is very little. There a few more that have something and are well made (I, O, T, H, R), but that I didn’t like, while the rest swings between boring, uninteresting average and unwatchable cringe (F!!!). And Ti West must have drunk the budget he had, because otherwise his half-minute long M Is for Miscarriage is impossible to explain. ()
Naprostý unikát v oblasti hororu. Přes dva tucty choromyslných režisérů se setkaly, aby si každý zvlášť natočil kratičkou epizodu stylem sobě vlastním. A tak tu máme povídky plné bizarních výjevů, úchylných nápadů, roztodivného násilí a hlavně totálně černého humoru. Kromě fatálních brutalit typu XXL, Youngbuck a Libido a dvou animovaných srandiček bych ještě zmínil vizuálem nadupané segmenty Dogfight a Orgasm (ten je navíc od tvůrců parádní artovky Amer). Několik povídek bylo vyloženě sračkoidních (tady zklamali hlavně West, Traucki a Wingard) , ale to nic nemění na tom, že v téhle společnosti mi bylo zatraceně dobře. ()
A-B-C-D... – so goes the nursery rhyme, but this bloody anthology film is definitely not for a young audience. The quality of the each story varies widely, from decent to utter garbage. I was most impressed by the letters S (Speed), K (Klutz) and T (Toilet). The worst, most embarrassing, or gratuitously gory stories were letters F (Fart), H (Hydro-electric Diffusion), and Z (Zetsumetsu). All in all, when I add it all up and scratched my head, it was a rather below average affair that I came to by sheer chance via a director whose short frankly disappointed me. ()