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6. M is for Masticate
Created by: Robert Boocheck
Best known for: interning for Sam Raimi
Score: 170

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vQLG_ju-pw

Inviso: 9
Mythiot: 10
Raka: 11
plasma: 12
John: 13
Karo: 13
Snake: 18
jcgamer: 19
TomNook: 22
Suprak: 43

Inviso
The slow-mo start of this one (and white contacts) making you think this is a standard zombie story, all leading to the sudden smash cut to 34 Minutes Earlier and Hell yeah Ill do some bath salts is a great joke, and it really sells this short perfectly.

Raka
He just like me fr fr. An entire film shot in slow-mo is pretty interesting conceptually, the usage of music also makes this feel like it came from a 2010s comedy/horror movie, in a good way. That ending also really ties everything together really well.

plasma:
Slo-mo Captain Underpants storms down the street and slams a few citizens to the curb before eating the cheek off some poor sap. I suspected our hero was on PCP, but in the ending flashback, we learn it was bath salts.
I think the flashback cheapened this story and shouldve been cut so the viewers could draw their own conclusions about the drug use. Other than that, this one was both terrifying and funny all at once, which is hard to pull off. B+

John
the only short to get into the film by winning an online contest, and yeah, it's pretty decent. Solid use of music, cool stylistic choice, funny one-liner

Karo
Drugs are bad, m'kay?

Snake:
The ending saves it from the depths of the ranking

jcgamer
His eyes though. Pretty funny recreation of real-life horror.

Tom
Fun little mini-short, with an amusing punchline.

Suprak
Here are some signs your ABCs of Death entry is going to suck: the entire thing is shot in slow motion; 90% percent is just a loud music track that drowns out dialogue or background noise; there is poo or pee either mentioned or visible in your video; your short starts with the letter M. M is for Masticate checks off each and every single one of the worst ideas that propagated the first movie and crammed them into one short. The slow motion here is annoying as hell and I was considering fast forwarding this about half way through just so I could watch it in a reasonable speed. Was the ending about it being bath salts supposed to be funny? Haha he wasnt a zombie it was bath salts? If so, it wasnt. It didnt surprise me to find out this one came from a contest of random people entering to try and get the M movie. It did surprise me that it won. What the hell else was submitted that this was the best of the bunch? See ABCs of Death 2.5 for the answer! Actuallydont.