NSFW – ABCs of Death 2 Director Todd Rohal Picks His Favorite Movie Death; Supercut Video!
Steve Barton
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Around Halloween we try to be all treat and no trick here at Dread Central, and we definitely have something tasty for you right now. Director Todd Rohal (interview), who helmed the “P is for P-P-P-P Scary” segment of ABCs of Death 2,recently let us know what his favorite cinema death is.
Even cooler? The rest of the directors involved in the project shared their favorites too… but in video form! Get ready for some REALLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK action!
TOP SECRET!
“There was no death more shocking to me as a kid than the soldier that gets shot, falls, and shatters into a million pieces in Top Secret!,” Rohal tells us. “This traumatized me more than the girls in The Shining and the girl with no mouth in Twilight Zone: The Movie. Yes, I knew it was a comedy, and I loved it more than I loved Airplane!, but while lying awake at night and replaying the movie in my head, I could not deal with the thoughts of a death like this being possible. The loneliest, most unexpected way to go — just shattering into oblivion and silence. This (and thoughts of the lonely death of the Russian space dog Laika) made for more than a few sleepless nights pondering death, oblivion, and the literal fragility of life. RIP, you miserable, brittle Nazi in Top Secret!”
When you’re done with the video below, be sure to check out ABCs of Death 2 (review) now On Demand, and look for it in theaters this Halloween.
ABCs OF DEATH 2 is produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League in conjunction with associate producers Todd Brown, Marc Walkow, Mitch Davis, and Ted Geoghegan.
ABCs OF DEATH 2’s directors are an eclectic, acclaimed group, consisting of Julian Barratt of The Mighty Boosh; Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (BIG BAD WOLVES, RABIES); Japan’s arthouse provocateur Sion Sono (COLD FISH, SUICIDE CLUB); Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton; ROOM 277 mastermind Rodney Ascher; Filipino icon – and Director’s Fortnight inductee – Erik Matti (ON THE JOB, MAGIC TEMPLE); Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (VANISHING WAVES); SPLICE and CUBE‘s Vincenzo Natali; indie horror icon Larry Fessenden (THE LAST WINTER, HABIT); THE STATION’s Marvin Kren; Todd Rohal (THE CATECHISM CATACLYSM); Canada’s king of lo-fi, Steven Kostanski (MANBORG); Cuba’s Alejandro Brugués (JUAN OF THE DEAD); indie director Robert Boocheck; acclaimed UK commercial director Jim Hosking; Japanese monster-maker Hajime Ohata (HENGE); Canadian short film wizard Chris Nash (SKINFECTIONS); France’s Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (INSIDE, LIVID); E.L. Katz (director of the SXSW breakout hit CHEAP THRILLS); twin auteurs Jen and Sylvia Soska (AMERICAN MARY, DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK); A LONELY PLACE TO DIE’s Julian Gilbey; Brazil’s most controversial filmmaker Dennison Ramalho (NINJAS, LOVE FOR MOTHER ONLY); the founder of Nigerian “Nollywood” cinema Lancelot Imasuen; THE LEGEND OF BEAVER DAM and STAGE FRIGHT’s Jerome Sable; and animator Robert Morgan – creator of the BAFTA Award nominated short BOBBY YEAH.
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