YMMV / The ABCs of Death

• Awesome Moments: Buddy and his owner getting revenge on the handler that dognapped him.
• Awesome Music: "Vengeance" by Powerglove, which is the score of "Y is for Youngbuck."
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: "Fart" has this brief scene of a girl with flaming head - with no connection with the story whatsoever.

• Critical Dissonance: While the sequel was better received by critics, audience reaction to it has been more mixed, leaning towards the negative side.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • A given with most of, if not all the segments is that their horrifying nature becomes hilarious.
  • "Q Is For Quack" has the filmmakers propose to kill an actual duck on-camera. Subverted - In the end, they don't.
  • Zetsumetsu seems to be going for this with a lot of over-the-top sexual imagery, political imagery, and violence, not to mention how confusing it all is.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Most people who've reviewed it, even those who dislike the movie, like X is for XXL because of its combination of social commentary and Body Horror.
• Even Better Sequel:
  • How the second film is considered to be by critics.
  • T is for Toilet's sequel Ghost Burger is much more popular than its predecessor, having nearly double the views and likes than it on YouTube and a higher score on IMDB than the main film itself
• Fridge Brilliance: In B is for Bigfoot the Abominable Snow Man is only a danger to children who are out of bed...so, he attacks a woman who had just had sex, and been unknowingly impregnated...
• Narm: The ridiculous amount of injury the woman inflicts on her husband in "A is for Apocalypse" and how he's not only somehow alive and conscious afterwards, he doesn't even seem to be in any pain.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • U is for Unearthed is from the perspective of a vampire who's been, well, unearthed. Watching it as it kills people left, right and center, before being overwhelmed and subjected to a Rasputinian Death, is quite horrifying. Although the ending might be kind of satisfying.
  • XXL is about a woman who decides the best way to lose weight is to carve it all off.
  • While some may find Z is for Zetsumetsu (Extinction) funny, gross, or just weird and confusing, the darkness, radioactivity warning signs, war imagery, and/or the gratuitous Interplay of Sex and Violence can be pretty scary for some. For some, though, the worst part has to be the title: XXL was about a fat lady, Unearthed was about digging up a vampire, Youngbuck is both about a teenage boy and deer, etc. What went extinct in the film titled "Extinction?"
  • It should be noted that "zetsumetsu" doesn't just mean extinction: It also means extermination. If that's what they meant, then it makes things even worse via Fridge Horror: At least one side in this war wasn't just trying to stop their enemy: They were trying to wipe them off the face of the earth! And considering that Japan and America (strongly implied to be the other side in this war) have been close allies since the end of World War II in Real Life, what the hell happened for them to turn on each other like that?
• Special Effect Failure: The female police officer's gun in "V is for Vagitus" is clearly a Nerf Maverick painted black.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The music for "XXL" sounds like the panicked music throughout the climax of Requiem for a Dream.
• Tear Jerker: The boy's father in "Toilet" watching his son get crushed to death. It's a good thing that the short's sequel Ghost Burger reveals that he survived, with his only injuries being a scar over his now discolored (and capable of seeing ghosts) left eye.
  • The girl in "XXL" being so desperate to lose weight that she skins herself alive.
  • The state of Japan in "Zetsumetsu" is also pretty depressing once you get past all the chaos: it's suffered a particularly devastating nuclear attack and card-carrying Neo-Nazis freely walk the streets. The title suggests that this war is going to kill off humanity, or, if you take "extinction" as a mistranslation of "extermination" (see Nightmare Fuel above), at least everyone in Japan. Speaking of, it's implied that the United States, one of Japan's closest allies since World War II and the country that brought them democracy, was behind the attacks.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Although the movie has a cute cover of a baby reading a book in what appears to be a cool chair, and contains 26 shorts ranging from Wallace & Gromit-style claymation to a live-action short featuring cute Japanese schoolgirls, the title alone should give you a pretty clear clue that it's not for kids, but some people go and show it to their kids anyways. This mindset led to the imprisonment of a high-school substitute teacher.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: Some claim that "Z is for Zetsumetsu (Extinction)" is supposed to be a commentary on American and Japanese cultures' influences on each other, while others think it's trying to say something about nuclear war or nuclear energy. All Nishimura said is that he wanted to make a movie that couldn't be shown in Japan and nothing else. Not that that was all he wanted to do, mind you; That was all he said.
• The Woobie: The poor protagonist in "XXL" who is being mocked for her obesity, giving her a body image bad enough that she ends up flaying herself.

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