Salon.com > The ABCs of Death http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:55:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Pick of the week: The new wave of horror all crammed into one movie http://www.salon.com/2013/03/08/pick_of_the_week_the_new_wave_of_horror_all_crammed_into_one_movie/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/08/pick_of_the_week_the_new_wave_of_horror_all_crammed_into_one_movie/#comments Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13222415 To anyone who still doubts the ambition, imagination and filmmaking chops at work in the worldwide new wave of horror movies, I offer you “The ABCs of Death,” an enormously impressive and massively indulgent cornucopia of 26 short films from all over the world. Then again, if you suspect that new-school horror is often cheap, vulgar, sexist, unnecessarily gruesome, self-reflexive and juvenile, then all I can say is: Um, yeah. That’s here too! “The ABCs of Death” is one-stop shopping for deviant cinema, a Pu Pu platter of perversity. It made me laugh hysterically, shout with outrage, wince with discomfort and yearn to hide under the sofa, all by the halfway mark. It contains some of the subtlest and most ambiguous filmmaking of the year and some of the dumbest. There’s no way to praise it, or bury it, without doing the other thing at the same time.

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