ABC's of Death 2½

Did You Know?

• The film is composed of 26 audition films for the letter M, chosen from more than 500 entries.
• These shorts competed for the spot in ABCs of Death 2, with M is for Masticate being the winner.
• It premiered at the inaugural Nightmares Film Festival on October 20, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio.

List of segments and directors

M is for Magnetic Tape, directed by Tim Rutherford and Cody Kennedy from Canada, features a video store owner who is accosted by ninjas and a crime lord and must call upon the powers of VHS tapes to defeat them. The cast includes Mark Meer as Narrator/VHS God, Josh Lenner as Ninja Sensei, Kevin Martin as Videostore Guy, Charles Ghal as Big Boss, Tim Rutherford as VHS Warrior, Jeremy Kwan, Damian McDonald, Darryl Merpaw, Jesse Nash, Curt Engel, and Nolan Smits as Punk Ninjas. M is for Maieusiophobia (The Fear of Giving Birth), directed by Christopher Younes from the United Kingdom, is a stop-motion short in which a pregnant woman suffering from paranoia goes into labor and dies shortly after cutting the fetus out; the baby's fate is left unknown. M is for Mailbox, directed by Dante Vescio and Rodrigo Gasparini from Brazil, follows a young vampire who attacks a house on Halloween by killing the mother and daughter upon them answering, only to find that the father is famed hunter Van Helsing. The cast includes Ênio Gonçalves as The Father, Fernanda Gonçalves as The Daughter, Inah de Carvalho as The Mother, and Wallace Stuani as The Vampire. M is for Make Believe, directed by Summer Johnson from the United States, involves two girls who stumble upon a dead body and cover it in fairy dust; two men later arrive to dig a grave and bury the body, and when the girls return in the morning, they find the body missing and believe it to have healed and disappeared. The cast includes Gillian Mathre as Purple Fairy, Natalie Mathre as Pink Fairy, Brett Stephens as Dead Man, and Mark Popejoy and Mikey Taylor as The Two Men. M is for Malnutrition, directed by Peter Czikrai from Slovakia, depicts a woman searching for food in a zombie-infested building. The cast includes Judit Bárdos, Michal Rovnák, Michal Kubovčík, Stanislava Vlčeková, Gabriela Marcinková, Peter Paulík, Róbert Poór, Jozef Koháry, and Július Simlovič. M is for Manure, directed by Michael Schwartz from Canada, shows an abusive farmer who threatens his son and is attacked by the reanimated corpse of his dead wife. The cast includes Myles Dobson as Boy, John Cianciolo as Father, Dani Barker as Victim, and Brittnee Madden as Manure Monster. M is for Marauder, directed by Steve Daniels from the United States, is a black and white parody of Mad Max on tricycles.