Tasha Robinson’s hit the problems with the horror film industry right on their conjoined heads: A) The genre ‘Horror’ and Thriller’ have been almost inseparably mixed, and B) Horror Films have become an industry. I haven’t seen The ABCs of Death, but I definitely know not to see it now—at least not all of it. Like Movie 43, ABCs of Death is a film anthology of shoe-budget shorts. Except, Movie 43 had a framing device and less gore (and more horror, depending on how bad I heard it was)
Anyway, Miss Robinson handled the movie fairly. As an old-school horror fan, it is my melodramatically biased opinion that she rightfully blasts the film for its scatological humor, as well as the furry section. Furries simply don’t belong in ANYTHING—not even the weird parts of the internet. The fact that there is no framing device is also just disappointing; I’m sure in some interview, the producers said something along the lines of “We’re gonna make the next Creepshow. And it’s gonna be AWESOME!”. Then forgot the frame story. Even if it went with Movie 43’s unoriginal route and made the shorts movie pitches in their own right, the film would have been much more cohesive.
But then Miss Robinson brings up the high points. The claymation segment will probably just gross me out, but I do think it does deserve merit simply because it is such an antiquated and time-honored process. And Wallace and Gromit. Some of the segments she names seem interesting enough (yay, J-Horror), and seem to be very intelligently shot.
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Wow. I totally just reviewed Movie 43 up there, didn’t I?
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