The ABCs of Death is a 2012 American comedy horror anthology film produced by international producers and directed by filmmakers from around the world. The film contains 26 shorts, each by different directors spanning fifteen countries, including Nacho Vigalondo, Kaare Andrews, Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Ben Wheatley, Lee Hardcastle, Noboru Iguchi, Ti West, and Angela Bettis. It is the first film in the ABCs of Death film series, followed by ABCs of Death 2.
An anthology of stories helmed by more than two dozen directors details 26 ways to die, each corresponding to a different letter of the alphabet.
Victims[]
A Is For Apocalypse[]
- Unnamed Man - Two fingers cut off, stabbed in the neck, scalded with hot oil, and beaten by an unnamed woman with a frying pan and then killed when Earth exploded.
- Unnamed Woman - Killed when Earth exploded.
- 7,266,776,173 Unnamed People - Killed when Earth exploded, minus two previously counted people.
- Total - 7,266,776,175
B Is For Bigfoot[]
- Dulce - Killed by Bigfoot off-screen, body seen.
- Erik - Killed by Bigfoot off-screen, body seen.
- Total - 2
C Is For Cycle[]
- Bruno - Strangled by his future self with a garden hose wrapped in barbed wire.
- Total - 1
D Is For Dogfight[]
- Unnamed Male Dog Thief - Killed by Buddy and his owner off-screen.
- Total - 1
E Is For Exterminate[]
- Spider - Crushed by the unnamed man with a rolled-up magazine.
- Unnamed Man - Brain eaten by baby spiders.
- Total - 2
F Is For Fart[]
- Two Unnamed Schoolgirls - Disintegrated after inhaling toxic gas.
- Unnamed Schoolgirl - Head set on fire for no apparent reason.
- Three Unnamed Schoolgirls - Disintegrated after inhaling toxic gas.
- Total - 6
G Is For Gravity[]
- Unnamed Male Surfer - Committed suicide by drowning himself in the ocean with bags of bricks tied to his ankles.
- Total - 1
H Is For Hydro-Electric-Diffusion[]
- Frau Scheisse - Skull melted when Bertie threw her into a pool of electrified water.
- Total - 1
I Is For Ingrown[]
- Unnamed Woman - Committed suicide by scratching herself to death after her husband injected her with motor oil.
- Total - 1
J Is For Jidai-Geki[]
- Unnamed Male Samurai - Decapitated off-camera by an unnamed kaishakunin with a katana, head seen.
- Total - 1
K Is For Klutz[]
- Unnamed Woman - Rectum destroyed by a sentient stool.
- Total - 1
L Is For Libido[]
- Unnamed Man - Impaled by a spike trap activated by the female overseer.
- Ten Unnamed Men - Impaled by spike traps activated by the female overseer off-camera, blood seen.
- Deer - Decapitated off-screen by an unknown person, head seen.
- Unnamed Man - Impaled by a botched spike trap.
- Unnamed Female Overseer - Accidentally impaled through the chin by a botched spike trap.
- Unnamed Man - Dismembered off-camera by an unnamed woman with a chainsaw.
- Unnamed Man - Impaled by a spike trap activated by an unnamed woman off-screen.
- Total - 16
M Is For Miscarriage[]
- Unnamed Woman's Fetus - Died in miscarriage off-screen, body seen.
- Total - 1
N Is For Nuptials[]
- Shane - Stabbed to death by Ann with a kitchen knife off-screen, blood seen.
- Total - 1
O Is For Orgasm[]
- Le Femme - Strangled by L'homme with a belt.
- Total - 1
P Is For Pressure[]
- Cat - Crushed by a prostitute with her high heels off-camera, crunching noises heard.
- Total - 1
Q Is For Quack[]
- Adam Wingard - Accidentally shot in the stomach by Simon Barrett while trying to fix his gun.
- Simon Barrett - Accidentally shot in the chest by Adam Wingard when he shot him.
- Duck - Presumably died of starvation off-screen after being locked in a cage by Juan Carlos.
- Total - 3
R Is For Removed[]
- Unnamed Male Doctor - Strangled by Film Man with a chain.
- Unnamed Male Doctor - Beaten to death by Film Man with a glass bottle.
- Unnamed Man - Disemboweled by Film Man with an IV drip stand off-camera.
- Unnamed Man - Shot by Film Man.
- Film Man - Committed suicide by crushing himself underneath a train car off-screen, body seen.
- Total - 5
S Is For Speed[]
- Roxanne - Died of a heroin overdose.
- Roxanne or Lulu's Father - Died of an unknown cause off-screen, mentioned in writing on a wall.
- Total - 2
T Is For Toilet[]
- John Tooley - Skull crushed underneath a falling toilet tank. Revived in Ghost Burger.
- Total - 1
U Is For Unearthed[]
- Unnamed Woman - Blood sucked out by the vampire.
- Unnamed Male Vampire - Shot in the arm by an unnamed man with a flaming arrow, fangs ripped out by an unnamed man with tweezers, stake hammered into his heart by an unnamed man, and finally decapitated off-camera by an unnamed man with an axe.
- Total - 2
V Is For Vagitus[]
- Two Unnamed Women - Blown up by Nezbit.
- Unnamed Man - Blown up by Nezbit.
- Unnamed Woman - Beaten to death by Nezbit.
- Three Unnamed Men - Shot to death by Nezbit.
- Four Unnamed Men - Shot to death by Officer Lainey.
- Unnamed Male Baby - Head bitten off by Nezbit under Stoker's control.
- Unnamed Baby's Parents - Shot to death by Nezbit under Stoker's control.
- Unnamed Woman - Sucked dry by a scientist.
- Unnamed Male Police Officer - Thrown against a table by the baby's psychic powers.
- Unnamed Male Police Officer - Accidentally shot by Nezbit.
- Unnamed Male Scientist - Shot vertically in half by Nezbit.
- Stoker - Head blown up by the baby's psychic powers.
- Total - 19
W Is For WTF![]
- Bull - Killed by a witch off-screen, skull seen.
- Three Unknown People - Killed by a witch off-screen, skulls seen.
- Unnamed Male Knight - Melted by a warlock with his magic.
- Wendy - Disemboweled by a witch with a dagger.
- Unnamed Old Man - Pushed off a cliff in his wheelchair by an unnamed nurse.
- Unnamed Man - Eaten by zombie clowns.
- Unnamed Man - Eaten by zombie clowns.
- Unnamed Man - Eaten by zombie clowns.
- Unnamed Man - Head ripped off by a zombie clown.
- Unnamed Woman - Eaten by zombie clowns.
- Unnamed Man - Skull eaten by a flying monster.
- Troll - Killed off-screen by the female warrior, body seen.
- Giant Walrus - Blown up by John Schnepp with laser vision.
- John Schnepp - Skull cut open by a witch with a dagger.
- Total - 16
X Is For XXL[]
- Gertrude - Bled out after stripping all of the fat off of her body.
- Total - 1
Y Is For Youngbuck[]
- Deer - Shot in the side by the unnamed boy with an arrow, shown in flashback.
- Unnamed Male Pedophiliac Janitor - Head ripped off by the unnamed boy with a stuffed deer head.
- Total - 2
Z Is For Zetsumetsu[]
- Three Unnamed Men - Shot through the skull by the female Nazi with a revolver full of rice.
- Unnamed Woman - Uterus destroyed by the female Nazi with her sword penis.
- Total - 4
Deaths[]
- Total - 7,266,776,272
- 7,266,776,264 Humans
- 7,266,776,177 Victims of Unknown Genders
- 56 Men
- 24 Women
- 7 Animals
- 2 Deer
- 1 Spider
- 1 Cat
- 1 Duck
- 1 Bull
- 1 Giant Walrus
- 2 Monsters
- 1 Vampire
- 1 Troll
- 7,266,776,264 Humans
Kill Counts[]
- Nezbit - 20 (Alive)
- Film Man - 4 (Deceased)
- Bigfoot - 2 (Alive)
- Bertie - 1 (Alive)
- Ann - 1 (Alive)
- L'homme - 1 (Alive)
- Future Bruno - 1 (Alive)
- Juan Carlos - 1 (Alive)
- Buddy (Dog) - 1 (Alive)
- Simon Barrett - 1 (Deceased)
- Adam Wingard - 1 (Deceased)
- John Schnepp - 1 (Deceased)