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23. Q is for Quack
Created by: Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett
Best known for: You're Next, Blair Witch, Death Note (2017)
Score: 232

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o97yfuJyS0

Suprak: 5
Karo: 7
Mythiot: 12
Inviso: 18
Snake: 23
Raka: 26
jcgamer: 32
Tomnook: 33
plasma: 35
John: 41

Suprak
This is one of the few shorts in the first movie I genuinely like. Adam Wingard probably shouldnt act again, but the whole thing is a pretty funny meta-commentary on the project itself. I wonder how many of the other directors on here were like hey what the hell when fake Adam Wingards hacky attempt at the start of the project was to just show a topless girl screaming because I feel like ten people here are guilty of some variation of just that. I think this whole segment is pretty funny from start to finish, and I laughed way harder than I shouldve at that ending shot of the sound guy sprinting off into the dessert carrying his boom mic. Even the Q is for Quack is a clever double meaning. Poor Nacho Vigalando was out here catching strays too. Fun idea, great execution, pretty easily the best short of the first movie for me.

Karo
A funny and very meta segment starring the two directors, who in an attempt to slaughter a duck for their film end up both accidentally shooting each other.

Inviso
Good meta-humor and generally realized how dumb it was. My one complaint is that I imagine X is gonna be the hardest letter to properly film, not Q.

Snake
Some WAY too obvious meta-humor here but I kinda give it more credit because its Wingard and Barrett

Raka
Ah yes, the self-aware one. Like "The ABC's of Deaths That Goes Wrong". It's actually pretty funny, even if it got predictable towards the end, and the duck IS cute. Not bad.

jcgamer
Heh heh. Decent meta silliness

tomnook
Wow, so ebic and meta.

plasma
None of this is working.
This is a fucking disaster.
Guys, are you talking about your short film or the entire back half of ABCs #1?
Either way, this one sucked. I expected it to be Q Is For (Scream) Queen based on the well-endowed coke goddess we met early on, but she turned out to be a red herring. Perhaps Adam Wingard shouldve explored the Scream Queen trope in fun, experimental ways, but noooooohed rather make an uninspired meta comedy about a duck and two quacks. D

John
Perhaps the most successful of any of the directors to participate in an ABCs of Death, and this is the best they come up with? A meta piece about not having a better idea where basically nothing happens?

22. S is for Speed
Created by: Jake West
Best known for: Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape)
Score: 232

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a-aU-2vM-g

John: 6
Suprak: 7
plasma: 9
Karo: 12
Snake: 15
Inviso: 22
jcgamer: 35
TomNook: 37
Mythiot: 40
Raka: 49

John:
holy shit a play on words that's actually kinda clever! super tarantino/rodriguez inspired and I dig it

Suprak
I like this one, unironically. The set up is a really fun play on all those 70s exploitation movies and I wouldnt have minded it if it was just that. The twist here actually caught me off guard and this is one of the few it was all just a dream! tropes I dont hate. That sort of fun fantasy wasteland immediately contrasted with the brutal dark reality of their situation made the shift even more effective. The acting and camerawork arent perfect, but I still thought this one was pretty solid and does a good job doing something interesting within the constraints of the project.

plasma
What a twist! This one opens with a kickass goth babe stuffing a hostage into her vehicles trunk and driving off to escape a hooded stranger. At first this one seems like its gonna be some cheesy Fantasy-Western with bad dialogue and worse acting. Then the twist hits and everything clicks as we see our two gothic leads shooting speedballs in a heroin den. The stark reality of the ending actually makes the entire dream sequence amazing (the melodrama and stiff acting are totally forgivable because the whole thing is in her head), and this short was unquestionably the best one from the back half of ABCs #1. It reminds me of M Is For Masticate, but the ending is considerably more impactful. A-

Karo
is this the sequel to faster pussycat kill kill

Snake
What if Quentin Tarantino but ACTUALLY a drug induced hallucination

Inviso
The acting is absolutely terrible, without a doubt. But at least its bad acting in service of an interesting story and a solid twist ending. If youre gonna have bad acting, sometimes a metaphor is the way to go.

jcgamer
Not bad, decent twist/metaphor

Tom
It's got the little twist, but I also don't care.

Raka
Man, that's some horrible acting and bad editing. It fels very much like a self-aware exploitation film. And the ending kinda justifies it. Don't do drugs, kids!