Here’s the dementedly sublime official poster for the horror anthology THE ABCS OF DEATH, which we’ve been looking forward to for Zeus knows how long. It’s pretty much perfect, as far as this goon is concerned. What else could you ask for: baby, specter of death, storybook… The design is certainly in the ghoulish tradition of our favorite anthologies, wouldn’t you agree?
Evidently, the poster was designed by Kaare Andrews, the director of ALTITUDE and one of the 26 contributors to THE ABCS OF DEATH. (He’s also helming the CABIN FEVER prequel, PATENT X.)
The directors on the anthology are Kaare Andrews, Angela Bettis, Ernesto Diaz Espinoza, Jason Eisener, Bruno Forzani & Héléne Cattet, Adrian Garcia Bogliano, Jorge Michel Grau, Noburo Iguchi, Thomas Malling, Anders Morgenthaler, Lee Hardcastle, Yoshihrio Nishimura, Banjong Pisathanakun, Simon Rumley, Marcel Sarmiento, Jon Schnepp, Srdjan Spasojevic, Timo Tjahjanto, Andrew Traucki, Nacho Vigalondo, Jake West, Ti West, Ben Wheatley, Adam Wingard and Yudai Yamaguchi.
Inspired by children’s educational books, the feature is comprised of 26 individual chapters, each helmed by a different director assigned a letter of the alphabet. The directors were given free reign to choose a word to represent a form of death based on their letter.
This will be a celebration of death in all its forms. From the shocking and exotic through to the banal and droll. The spectrum of cause will run from the accidental through to murder most foul. It is up to each director to interpret the letter (word) they are assigned.
Click on the poster below to see a bigger version. THE ABCs OF DEATH will be released through Magnet Releasing this SEPTEMBER.
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