Some pretty exciting news direct from Alamo Drafthouse Films. The company are teaming up with Magnet Releasing and Timpson Films to bring us 26 sweet horror shorts each from some notable genre directors! The new joint project entitled ‘The ABCs of Death’ will bring us 26 shorts each based on a letter of the alphabet. The production kicks off next month and with a cool twist the set completion date will be in January 2012 – 6 months, 6 weeks and 6 days later! 25 known directors with previous credits to their name will be involved and the 26th will be selected as part on an ‘international contest’. Check out the full list of director’s below which include ‘A Serbian Film’s Srdjan Spasojevic, ‘The Reefs’ Andrew Trauck, ‘The House of the Devil’s Ti West and ‘Shutter’s Banjong Pisanthanakun. Check out the early concept art for the project below.
The ‘current’ list includes;
Banjong Pisanthanakun (Shutter, Alone)
Angela Bettis (Roman)
Adrian Garcia Bogliano (Cold Sweat)
Jason Eisener (Hobo With A Shotgun)
Ernesto Diaz Espinoza (Mirageman)
Bruno Forzani and Héléne Cattet (Amer)
Gadi Harel (DeadGirl)
Thomas Malling (Norwegian Ninja)
Yoshihiro Nishimura (Tokyo Gore Police; Frankenstein Girl Vs. Vampire Girl)
Simon Rumley (The Living and the Dead; Red, White and Blue)
Tak Sakaguchi and Yuji Shimomura (Yakuza Weapon)
Marcel Sarmiento (DeadGirl)
Srdjan Spasojevic (A Serbian Film)
Timo Tjahjanto (Macabre)
Andrew Traucki (Black Water, The Reef)
Nacho Vigalando (TimeCrimes)
Jake West (Doghouse, Evil Aliens)
Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers)
Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace, Kill List)
Adam Wingard (Pop Skull, A Horrible Way To Die)
“This project was inspired by my young sons being introduced to the world through their ABCs books,” says Timpson Films CEO Ant Timpson, “The idea of subverting that format to reveal a study in all the dastardly and humorous ways a person can leave this world appealed on multiple levels. And it was somewhat fitting to learn that the earliest forms of the ABCs books actually did use fear of punishment to teach the young.”
‘The ABCs of Death’ Teaser Art
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