MovieChat Forums > ABCs of Death 2 (2014) Discussion > Which ones disturbed/made you upset?

Which ones disturbed/made you upset?


Me personally, I'm pretty hard to disturb when watching something. However, what does end up disturbing me and what doesn't always boggles my mind as well as everyone else's.

In this movie, I found the following shorts upsetting and disturbing:

Q is for Questionnaire- The first one that bothered me. Not all that much but worth noting.

W is for Wish - This one actually bothered me quite a bit. I thought it was super cool and creative, showing what a "He-Man world" would really be like. The killing of the one friend and the other being taken off via weirdo on a bug whilst repeating "No!".... I don't know, made me feel a bit bothered.

X is for Xylophone - A little girl being reduced to a bloody pulp while in the hands of a babysitter... not much to explain here (Although I did think it was a creative and cool idea but still... yikes)

and

Z is for Zygote - (Takes deep breath) The body horror, the surreal aspect, the child living inside her(presumably a "her") body about to probably have sex with the father... creative and kind of interesting but... completely sick.

Which ones disturbed you?



"DID YOUR ASS GET ENOUGH WINGS?!"- Frylock

reply

X for Xylophone kind of disturbed me because of how utterly destroyed the girl's body was, and Z for Zygote disturbed me because of the part where the bloody bones come out of her mouth, and because I couldn't imagine having a kid inside me for 13 whole years. I thought it was a good one to end the film on.

reply

I thought it was a cool/good one to end on. Although, it did suck that I started watching it at midnight and had to go to bed after seeing the "Z" one 0_o

"DID YOUR ASS GET ENOUGH WINGS?!"- Frylock

reply

Yeah those two made me squirm the most UGH that poor girl.


Lose the Game!!!!!!!

reply

I'm going to try to watch this film even though the way that scene is described seems vomit inducing.

reply

D, X and Z were pretty disturbing.

reply

I blame the parents for hiring Beatrice Dalle to be the babysitter.

What did they expect to happen?!

reply

X made no effing sense and if that horrid crone was seriously supposed to murder a CHILD, for NO reason whatsoever, that just makes the creator worthy of a hard blow to the head. What the HELL happened in Z?? Where did the child go after it virtually destroyed its mother? The best that can be said for that sick junk is that it was a psychological look at a mother's miscarriage, happening when she's alone, terrified and imagining her husband to be gone for much longer than he actually was, hallucinating about convincing her child to stay inside in the insufferably long years. Then, after the horrible miscarriage, doing what so many women have had to do before her (especially with no other means) and fixing herself up, clearing the trauma done to her body, then moving on (while still in clear shock, as she was in the rocking chair) and doing daily things like making tea.

reply

W disturbed me and I do not get disturbed. I guess killing kids and molesting (assumed) kids can do it.

reply

Truly Stephen, they went way too far with that; disgusting and not even a reason. A better story for that clip would have been this: as the child's playing starts to truly bother the grandmother, she looks at the photo of an older man on the wall before returning her disturbed gaze to her granddaughter's instrument. When the film cuts to the grandmother again as the parents found her, the child is gone and there are bones on the floor, but no blood or sign of the child except for her instrument; the bones the grandmother's playing, while wearing her granddaughter's fairy wings, are old bones she's kept hidden for years. She smiles sorrowfully at the couple and tells them in a dazed voice how her own father was cruel, beating her when she played her own instrument and destroying her childhood. This explains why she's wearing the child's fairy wings, defiantly trying to recapture her childhood. In the midst of this, we see her grandchild peeking out fearfully from a back room at granny in her strange episode, then running silently to her mother. The grandmother smiles ruefully once more at the parents and the film fades out the same way we see it now.

reply

Thanks for the reply! I think the story you mean is X. Now, I agree with you on your complete idea for that story, and I probably should have mentioned this with children's death. However, W is the one where a child gets incinerated and another dragged off by a (presumed) pedophile.

Side note, in the first one, I had an issue with D, though I love the outcome. It is hard to watch a man punch a dog like that.

reply

No problem :) I figured you meant another clip when you mentioned pedophilia, but wait..the W segment kills a CHILD? AND has a creep like that?? I haven't seen all of them, I read the description of every single one before deciding which to watch, learned as much about them as I possibly could, but apparently not enough about W; I'd already decided not to watch it because of what happens to a grown man, but they kill those KIDS?..I'm sickened.

reply

Yea, one of the kids is taken to the leader and then his charred skeletal remains are brought back to his friend. The surviving boy is "rescued" by 'Fantasy Man' who carts him away in a sack while the boy shouts in protest. Most disturbing.

reply

..That practically makes me ill. Thanks for the warning!

reply

Zygote was probably the worst for me (shudder). Xylophone was extremely disturbing as well, but I have to agree that it was really clever, in a totally macabre sort of way. Roulette was extremely tense, but in much more of a psychological way. Deloused was also really gross, but very imaginative.

reply

Some shorts in the ABCs of Death are disturbing, but they are interesting as well.

However, some of these shorts in this sequel are really upsetting, disturbing and WTF.

D part is the most disturbing one ,from title to its mean idea.(And I have to say that the style of this part is sick and uncomfortable)What is it that bring the man back to life?Why those guard could still moving with their heads cut out?The director was not trying to explain those questions so it was hard for me to associate the title with the mean idea of this short.
I was trying to translate the subtitle into Chinese but I could hardly find any explanation of the word "Deloused".So disturbed was this film.

L is for Legacy - maybe the mean idea has something to do with their original tribe tradition but I couldn't figure it out.

As to the X,if you have watched these directors former works such as À l'intérieur,you would not be distubed with the strange story and style.

Fortunately they did not give the Japanese director final Z word.

😘

reply

I'm surprised no one's mentioned S yet. That very scenario is just horrifying to even imagine.

reply

I was REALLY disturbed by

V for Vacation (This is probably the one that disturbed me the most. It was really well acted and sick. That guy's friend was psychotic!! And his chick crying on the phone made it even more disturbing. Like, did the friend hate her that much??)

X for Xylophone (Right from he get go, it just felt wrong and unfortunately got worse from there. Much worse!!)

Z for Zygote (The delayed birth and the daughter killing her mother from within was just twisted. I sat there stunned during the end credits of this one.)

reply

V for Vacation was *beeped* up! Good god. Felt bad for the girl on the phone and the 2 Prostitutes.

Z for Zygote was sick. Made me think about things tho.

~Keep on Trucking!~

reply