A is for Amateur -- The ABCs of Death 2

A for Amateur is a surprisingly long opening to the second ABCs of Death 2 but is so because E.L. Katz shows two scenarios regarding a hitman and his mark. The first is a Hollywood standard: a well executed plan plays out as expected with a hired killer secretly moving through air conditioning ducts to find his target (some low level kingpin who looks more like a minor drug dealer success story, holed up in a condo with kissing lesbians and hired security playing Poker), taking him out along with everyone else in the room. 

I wasn't expecting this!

Well, at least the job was done.

Then there’s the realistic second scenario where the hired killer encounters sticky cobwebs, nails sticking out, bugs, garbage, darkness, debris expected in ducts where air and heat pass through, and tightness that doesn’t allow him to easily travel to his desired destination. That his success is accidental is the great irony/humor of the little tale. Okay start. Plays on hitmen movies, allowing us to see it all go awry. I look for the horror tales in anthology movies like this so A for Amateur is a decent diversion. To add to the humor of the tale is that the human target isn’t even all that flashy a mark; he’s some uncouth, unshaven slob, with a gum-chewing, nail-filing squeeze and one singular unimpressive security guy. So the hitman could perhaps have just knocked on the door and killed his target instead of the crawlspace efforts!