The work of 26 young directors from 14 countries, this portmanteau film features brief horror movies about ways of dying for each letter of the alphabet. Most are darkly comic, a few are animated, virtually all are bloody, intended to shock or offend, and pretty adolescent, though not necessarily in an objectionable way. Representing F, a Japanese girl is gassed to death by her pretty teacher's toxic farts. D for Dog Fights features a battle between a hungry hound and a pugilist. The most gruesome is Z for Zetsumetsu (Japanese for extinction), a slice-and-dice sex-and-violence SF film. Collectively they become rather tedious, not so much a satisfying meal as a platter (or splatter) of gores d'oeuvres.