Alphabet of death

Each director was asked to choose a letter from the English alphabet and a word starting with that letter. The word denotes an object or topic with which death is connected in the finale of a grotesque-style story that develops some kind of surrealistic idea.

Interlude

Children's cubes lie on the floor and are washed away by a river of blood flowing from under the doors. Pop-up cubes make up the name of the film, later, after each short story, - a word in the letter of the alphabet.

"A is for Apocalypse" ( Apocalypse )

• Director: Nacho Vigalondo
• Script writer: Nacho Vigalondo

A woman awkwardly kills her husband, having breakfast in bed. In quiet agony, her husband learns from her that she had long wanted to do this, because they no longer have time. The noise of urban chaos is heard outside the window, the curtains are filled with a crimson color.

“B is for Bigfoot” ( Bigfoot )

• Director: Adrian Garcia Bogliano
• Script writer: Adrian Garcia Bogliano

The girl cannot fall asleep, and then the brother and his girlfriend tell her a horror story about a bigfoot from Mexico who devours the hearts of those who stay up after eight in the evening. The girl is frightened and tries to fall asleep faster. At this time, brother and girlfriend have sex. A snowman in the form of a garbage man notices the sleeping in the window of their apartment and knocks on the door. After the girl hears screams and tries even harder to fall asleep. The door to her room is opened by the girl of a brother with a perforated chest. The same fate befell the brother. Bigfoot leaves. A girl counts sheep.

"C is for Cycle" (Cycle)

• Director: Ernesto Diaz Espinosa
• Script writer: Ernesto Diaz Espinosa

The guy looks at the bloody stain in the garden, not knowing where it came from. At night, he and the girl wake up from some noise in the house. Going into the living room, the guy finds nothing and returns to sleep. The next morning he meets a dark hole in the bushes of the garden and, having entered it, disappears. At night, he finds himself lying in the garden. Walking into the girl’s bedroom, he stumbles upon himself, sleeping with her. They hear his footsteps, and the guy is hiding behind a sofa in the living room. Another "he", leaving the living room, finds nothing and returns to sleep. The next morning, the guy watches another, as he also goes into a dark hole in the bushes. The guy walks up to her. Suddenly, another “he” chokes him from behind and throws the corpse into the hole, leaving him only a bloody stain.

"D is for Dogfight" ( Dogfights )

• Director: Marcel Sarmiento
• Script writer: Marcel Sarmiento

Before entering the ring, the fighter looks at the announcement of the missing dog named Baddy. He has to fight with him. In the ring in front of him stands a man with a chain, which lets the dog. There is a heavy scuffle between man and animal. A fighter falls to the ground, but the dog spares him after the man pronounces the name of the dog, and fixes a predatory look at the man with the chain. The fighter confidently gets up, a hanging icon is visible on his neck, which says that Buddy is found. A dog attacks a man with a chain. He lies on the floor, a soldier finishes him with a cylinder of a fire extinguisher.

E is for Exterminate (Extermination)

• Director: Angela Bettis
• Script writer: Angela Bettis

The ordinary tenant of the apartment has a large black spider . The tenant tries to slam him, but he remains intact. Once a spider bites a tenant, and the ear begins to bother him. In the bathroom in front of the mirror, he sees small spiders crawling out of his ear across his face. A black spider attacks the screen.

F is for Fart ( Bunch )

• Director: Noboru Iguchi
• Script writer: Noboru Iguchi

The Japanese schoolgirl claims that she does not believe in God , because if he existed, then he would not allow her to emit gases. Just at that moment, her teacher, Miss Yumi, appears next, who promises not to tell anyone about the girl's pranks. The schoolgirl is very sympathetic to the teacher. Once there is an eruption of a volcano that contains poisonous gas. The schoolgirl decides that if it is God who so gives off gases, then it is better to die from the gases of his teacher friend. Hiding with her from smog in the gym, the schoolgirl asks her to fart in her face before dying. Miss Yumi agrees and emits yellow fumes. The schoolgirl enjoys the smell, and then she sucks in the anus along with gas. She is in the other world naked in the fetal position. Miss Yumi is with her, who says they need to be one. They are happy and kiss each other.

"G is for Gravity" ( Gravity )

• Director: Andrew Trauki
• Scriptwriter: Andrew Trauki

The action is shown in the first person. The hero goes to the beach and dives into the water with a surfboard . Having sailed a distance, he begins to sink. After darkening, it pops up dead, a board sways nearby in an upright position.

“H is for Hydro-Electric Diffusion” ( )

• Director: Thomas Kappelen Mulling
• Script writer: Thomas Kappelen Mulling

The characters are presented in an animalistic image. A bulldog in uniform enters a strip bar and watches the performance of the seductive Fox. But as soon as she opens the clothes, it turns out that she belongs to the Third Reich . The fox begins the sophisticated torture of the Bulldog with the help of various devices. In the end, he manages to escape from the treacherous paws of the Fox, and he assumes the role of tormentor. A fox falls into a bath with electrified water, her body burns and melts.

"I is for Ingrown" (literally. Ingrown)

• Director: Jorge Michelle Grau
• Script writer: Jorge Michelle Grau

An angry man is sitting in the bathroom, holding a syringe in his hand. He opens the curtain of the bathroom, in which lies a wounded and bound girl. An off-screen voice of the girl leads an abrupt monologue that she is not a stranger, but he changed her, although he is not someone special. A man inserts a syringe into the girl’s neck, she resists and roars. The man hurries away. The girl, in tears, scratches her neck and hands to the point of blood, and then spits up vomiting over the side of the bath. The substance introduced by the syringe acts, the girl twitches, breaks the curtains and dies. Behind the scenes, the girl says that she has ceased to exist, and breaks off from where she started: “I ...”

"J is for Jidai-geki" ( Jidai-geki )

• Director: Yudai Yamaguchi
• Script writer: Yudai Yamaguchi

A samurai ritual of suicide is performed. Samurai accepting death through seppuku , as if with deliberate irony, gives out the most varied and exaggerated expressive faces, playing on the nerves of the kaysyakunin - his assistant, who is obliged to finish the job by waving his sword. The scene lasts until he finally decides and cuts off the samurai's head. Kaisyakunin laughs with joyful relief.

K is for Klutz (Clumsiness)

• Director: Anders Morgenthaler
• Script writer: Anders Morgenthaler

Cartoon short film. At a party, a glamorous lady enters the toilet and sits on the toilet . Having defecated tightly, she tries to wash it off, but the feces mockingly floats out of the water, and then even jumps out like a rubber toy. The lady is angry. Struggling for the classic reputation of a clean and fresh beauty woman, she is trying by any means to get rid of the shameful "evidence", because men are impatiently waiting outside the door. But what happened came back on its own, which led to death and a terribly uncomfortable situation in front of the public.

"L is for Libido" ( Libido )

• Director: Timo Tiaganto
• Script writer: Timo Tiaganto

The action takes place in the hall where masturbation competitions are held between two men. They are tied to a chair, a female judge is watching them. Before the participants appears a nude girl with a painted face, and they begin to work hard with a hand. The protagonist ejaculates first. The female judge approaches the one who could not, and, despite his pleas to wait, presses the button on the back of the chair. An iron tip comes out under the seat, which pierces the loser through the whole body to the head. The first stage is followed by the second, and then the third, and so the main character, in mild cramps and in sweat, reaches the twelfth stage. With him is another opponent who is afraid. A girl with a neck corset and without a leg rolls out in front of them in a wheelchair. She takes out a prosthetic leg and rubs her crotch. The main character is exhausted, but the female judge cheers him up, spreading his legs, between which you can see an eye in the shadow of the dress. The hero manages to throw out a dose of sperm , he won again. The female judge wants to execute the opponent, but the button that triggers the tip does not work. After several attempts, it jumps out sharply, piercing both the body of the loser and the head of the woman herself. At the thirteenth stage, a skinny man competes with a hero with a dropper nearby, a male judge is already watching them. In front of the participants is the bed on which another man rapes the boy. This time the opponent is ahead of the hero, his sperm flows, the hero is sick and vomits. After that, he leaves the game and himself becomes the object of lust for the other two participants. He is tied to a bed, a beautiful girl dismembers him with a chainsaw.

M is for Miscarriage ( Miscarriage )

• Director: Ty West
• Script writer: Ty West

A woman cannot flush in the toilet. She goes after the plunger . Returning, she looks in the toilet. There is blood and something else.

"N is for Nuptials" ( Wedding )

• Director: Banyeng Pisensenekun
• Script writer: Banyeng Pisensenekun

The guy gives the girl a parrot, but this does not impress her. The guy shows how a new pet can do tricks and talk like a man, but the girl skeptically mocks. Then the parrot makes an offer to get married, the girl is moved and answers the guy positively. He is also happy. However, this is not all that a parrot can notify: then he voices a remembered dialogue between a guy and a certain Joy that “his girlfriend will not know anything”, and the parrot makes exclamations and obscene words, allegedly during sex. The guy is bewildered, the girl in anger kills him with a kitchen knife.

"O is for Orgasm" ( Orgasm )

• Director: Bruno Forzani , Helen Katte
• Script writer: Bruno Forzani , Helene Katte

The scene is abstracted on the moment of female pleasure from cunnilingus . Her feelings are expressed through a visual series with different colors. With an orgasm, the girl’s neck is tightened by a belt, and she suffocates.

"P is for Pressure"

• Director: Simon Ramley
• Script writer: Simon Ramley

The main character makes a living by prostitution . She is the mother of three daughters. One of them has a birthday soon, and there is not enough money for a welcome bike as a present: her boyfriend stole all the accumulated ones. Then she is not the first time agrees with a stranger to star in his video. He takes her somewhere to where the cage with the kitten and crawling mice is located. The heroine with a pitiful face looks at them. She puts on high-heeled shoes. The stranger turns on the camera. A kitten lies peacefully under the heroine’s feet, she caresses him with shoes, and then abruptly crushes a small body. In the last episode, all three daughters have fun on the playground, one of them riding a bicycle. Mother heroine smiles.

Q is for Quack ( Duck )

• Director: Adam Wingard , Simon Barrett
• Script writer: Adam Wingard , Simon Barrett

Two young directors are arguing about making a film in the letter Q. They decide to shoot a duck killing with a pistol. Having left for the desert with an operator, the guys place a cage with a bird on the ground, go away and prepare weapons. The operator turns on the camera, but a couple of enthusiasts are in trouble: one of them does not want to shoot an innocent duck, the other misfires, and by inadvertently pointing the barrel, he shoots at his comrade, and he, in turn, accidentally shoots back. Both corpses scare the operator, he runs away, leaving the camera. A duck sits serenely in a cage in the middle of the desert.

“R is for Removed” (Extracted)

• Director: Srdzhan Spasojevic
• Script writer: Srdjan Spasojevic

At the hospital, two people in suits are watching “Arrival of the train at La Ciotat station” on TV. The surgeon, together with the nurse, performs an operation on a patient with very wounded skin on his back. They remove a piece from it and dunk it in a tray of water, from which they already take out a 35-mm film. The surgeon examines her. Later, the patient is put in a wheelchair and placed in a cage in the middle of a large hall with stairs. Flashes of papparazzi are fired from all balconies, enthusiastic people come running from the stairs and curiously touch the person in the stroller. Next, a piece of skin from the back is repeatedly removed from the patient. The nurse is whispering something to the patient. The surgeon places a toilet bowl under it and prepares an injection. In the absence of a nurse, the patient kills the surgeon, strips off a piece of skin and, having washed it off, obtains a film from which he prepares a bullet for the gun. He leaves the ward, kills the doctor and two other people in suits, who were standing near the cart with a stack of finished film. The patient goes to the train stop, moves the car, falls under it. Bloody rain is pouring.

“S is for Speed” ^[3]

• Director: Jake West
• Script writer: Jake West

Two dressed up girls run out of an abandoned house in the middle of the desert. They are pursued by an anthropomorphic mutant in a cloak. One of the girls shoots herself from the pursuer, puts the other in the trunk and drives away. The mutant sits in his own and chases after the heroine. She turns on the music and picks up speed, enjoying the romance. When the girl stops, the pursuer catches up with her. She pulls her fellow traveler out of the luggage and wants to give it to the mutant, but he claims that it is not time yet, but he admits that he is tired of chasing for so long, and reaches out to the heroine. She takes her and falls to bed. She is in a dirty room with another girl, motionless and with foam from her mouth. Another girl sees that her friend is dead, takes out a dose of the drug, injects into her infected, bleeding vein and dives into a buzz with the same plot in the style of a road movie .

“T is for Toilet” ( Toilet )

• Director: Lee Hardcastles
• Script writer: Lee Hardcastles

Cartoon short film (plasticine animation). Parents got rid of the pot because their son would have to use the toilet for the first time. They assure him that this is normal and not at all scary, but the boy is afraid. They go to the toilet to prove that the toilet is not dangerous. Oddly enough, he turns into a bloodthirsty monster, devouring dad and mom. Only parts of the body and bloody walls remained in front of the boy, and then the monster suddenly pounced on him. The boy wakes up: it was a nightmare. He wanted to use the toilet, and, overcoming his childhood fear, he sits on the toilet. A toilet bowl hanging on top of it on two nails comes off one, which scares the boy, who, awkwardly getting down from the seat, accidentally lowers his head under the cover and freezes in anticipation of something. His scream is heard by his father, who, having found his son in such an absurd position, explodes with loud laughter. The second carnation does not stand up, and the tank falls onto the toilet lid, flattening the child’s head to smithereens. Father stops laughing and screams even louder.

“U is for Unearthed” (Dug Out)

• Director: Ben Wheatley
• Script writer: Ben Wheatley

The action is shown in the first person through the eyes of a character who is caught by a group of armed people. The character brutally kills several, but they knock him to the ground and put a stake in his heart, and then chop off his head.

"V is for Vagitus" ( Vagitus , the cry of a newborn)

• Director: Kaare Andrews
• Script writer: Kaare Andrews

2035 year. New Vancouver. The demographics of the population are strictly controlled by the state, people are sterilized from birth, but you can get the right to legal reproduction only in the service for controlling reproduction. A female police officer with great experience is completing a mission to eliminate a group of rebels. It turns out that they are mentalists capable of deep hypnosis . They defended the baby to deliver it to the Prophet, but the heroine’s companion robot kills the survivors and decapitates the child. The woman herself did not want this, since she went to the police station to become a mother, but in the past the agency refused her this initiative. The leader of the operation to eliminate the rebels, a man with a tattoo on his face, who wants to determine from the brain material of the baby where other mentalists live, appears. Then the heroine confronts the leader, he injures her. She lies on the ground next to a dying rebel who says that the baby is the Prophet, and she must become his mother. The baby’s head, in the hands of a man with a tattoo, comes to life and makes a loud scream, from which the head of the person holding bursts.

“W is for WTF” (“What the f * ck?” / “What the hell?”)

• Director: John Schnapp
• Script writer: John Schnapp

The director is preparing a cartoon in the eroguro genre on the theme of the letter W, but his friend responds with hostility to this. Then the director shows a large list of all kinds of words on W, from which you can make a plot, but this does not achieve the desired result. Heroes find out on TV that riots broke out in Los Angeles : colored stripes in the sky make up the letter W, zombie clowns roam the city. In addition, demons devouring heroes fly out of nowhere. There is chaos from frames, sounds and vulgar ideas, causing the viewer to exclaim only one thing: “WTF?”

“X is for XXL”

• Director: Xavier Gens
• Script writer: Xavier Gens

The story of a fat woman, at which everyone mercilessly laughs. Seeing ads with beautiful models, the girl decides to change herself. At home, she desperately and uncontrollably eats up greasy food, and then leaves for the bathroom. There, behind the bathtub curtain, she performs independent surgery with a knife, cutting off pieces of fat from her body. Curtains are splattered with blood. It turns out because of her a girl with a slender figure, but with shredded meat instead of skin. As she dies, she falls to the floor in a pool of her own blood.

Y is for Youngbuck

• Director: Jason Isener
• Script writer: Jason Isener

A man teaches a boy to hunt deer in the forest. He is admiring a child. After a shot at a horned beast, a man cuts off his head, the boy is terrified. A man stands in front of him and takes off his pants. The next episode shows the school where this man works as a janitor. He watches the boys in the gym sitting on the bench, wet with sweat. When everyone leaves, the man walks up to the bench and, bending his head to a pool of sweat , begins to eagerly lick. Before him is a boy from an episode with a hunt. On it is the head of a dead deer, whose horns it pierces and tears off the head of a pedophile. Having fulfilled revenge, the child also stands in front of the corpse of a man and takes off his pants.

"Z is for Zetsumetsu" (from Japanese. Extinction )

• Director: Yoshihiro Nishimura
• Script writer: Yoshihiro Nishimura

In parallel with the action, an alternative history of Japan is narrated: a radioactive cloud covered the country, which turned most of the population into mutants, which marked the beginning of a new era in the life of the country. Now Japan is an ideal country with thriving technology, healthy food, safe nuclear energy, all thanks to America. A man in dark glasses (dressed as the main character of the film Dr. Strangelove ) is sitting in a wheelchair and watching a show featuring a girl with a giant phallus sticking out of her underpants. She is wearing a hat with a distorted Nazi symbol . The girl performs in a battle with other Japanese women. From the body parts of the victims, national Japanese dishes are immediately made, which Japanese men eagerly eat. The contingent of naked Japanese with caps "Little boy" soars up like a rocket. A man with sunglasses calls the Japanese people "excellent sons of bitch." He enthusiastically gets out of the stroller and, exposing the genitals, joyfully exclaims that "his Emperor is standing."

• In the end credits it says: “Based on a nightmare by Ant Timpson” (“Based on Ant Timpson’s nightmare”)
• The film is dedicated to a certain Julie, "who laughed to the very end."

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