# Are there horror films where nobody dies? (Open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2008, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950 "2008-10-28T15:33:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/41 "2008-10-28T17:52:58Z")
> [@](#): > > This is wrong, several of the native workers are killed by the creature. Also, there may be one or more die fighting it. Have to watch that again soon. Oh, yeah – I forgot the natives in the tent. Sorry about that. But nobody on the Rita gets killed by the Gill Man, although one guy gets burned. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/42 "2008-10-28T17:56:26Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > _Jacob’s Ladder_ (sorta) Huh? Most of his unit dies in Vietnam. And at the end, he’s dead in the field hospital. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/43 "2008-10-28T17:58:30Z")
The movie you want is April Fool’s Day (1986) > **[April Fool's Day (1986) ⭐ 6.1 | Horror, Mystery](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090655/)** > > 1h 29m | R It fits all of the OP’s conditions I believe, Not bad, from what I remember, I saw it on a date in high school. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/44 "2008-10-28T18:05:21Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Huh? Most of his unit dies in Vietnam. And at the end, he’s dead in the field hospital. And on the plus side, it’s another movie where MacKauley Culkin dies (sort of.) ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/45 "2008-10-28T18:09:21Z")
Pretty sure no one dies in _One Hour Photo_, featuring a completely creepy Robin Williams. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/46 "2008-10-28T18:27:28Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > The movie you want is April Fool’s Day (1986) > [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090655/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090655/) > > It fits all of the OP’s conditions I believe, > Not bad, from what I remember, I saw it on a date in high school. That’s what I came to mention, notable (from a teenage boy perspective) that the movie had _both_ of the 80’s hottie Deborahs in the movie (Foreman and Goodrich). ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/47 "2008-10-28T18:29:48Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Huh? Most of his unit dies in Vietnam. And at the end, he’s dead in the field hospital. I’d argue at the _beginning_ he’s dead in the field hospital. The events of the move don’t appear to be actually happening so much may or may not have already happened or will never happen, and Jacob may have already been dead during even the combat scene he’s shown participating in. The end of the movie seems to indicate that Jacob died before it began, and that most of the scenes we’ve seen have just been shreds of his possible life being stripped away as he died. I admit it’s a stretch, that’s why I said “sorta.” 🙂 I’m still trying to figure out how to justify _Requiem for a Dream_ as a horror movie. To me, the gruesomeness and phantasmagoria of it are far more horrifying than a lot of flicks that would qualify as traditional “horror” movies, like, say, _Eight Legged-Freaks_. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/48 "2008-10-28T19:36:42Z")
> [@Agent\_Foxtrot](#): > > _Signs_, if you consider that a movie. I killed a man in Vegas for saying that. Well–actually so I could watch him die. But I chose him rather than the guy sitting beside him because he was the one who said that. Anyway, I feel obliged to defend Signs. Even now that I’m an atheist again I think it’s a wonderful movie; it’s just one whose plot can only be understood symbolically, and whose use of sci-fi tropes is only pro forma. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/49 "2008-10-28T19:46:18Z")
In 1408, the only implied death is his daughter, which happened before the movie starts. Cusack dies in the alternate ending but lives in the regular one. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/50 "2008-10-28T20:20:36Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > In 1408, the only implied death is his daughter, which happened before the movie starts. Cusack dies in the alternate ending but lives in the regular one. Speaking of which: I’ve never seen the theatre-version of _The Butterfly Effect_: does that one count (the final result at the end, that is :)) ---
**Author:** ![spoike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@spoike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spoike)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/51 "2008-10-28T20:33:13Z")
> [@Smokinjbc](#): > > There is an old 70’s era Disney movie called “The Watcher In The Woods”.. no one dies, but they do “disappear”. Ahhh. That movie terrified me when I was a kid. It’s probably not even all that scary, but it still freaked me out. I didn’t think anyone else remembered it. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/52 "2008-10-28T20:37:08Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > He does, but not gruesomely. The camera pans past him as he puts the gun to his head, and you hear the gunshot as soon as he’s off camera, but you don’t see any blood or anything. The bicyclist that got hit by a car. She’s standing by the kid’s window and she has died and her head looks pretty gruesome. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/53 "2008-10-28T21:07:43Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > He does, but not gruesomely. The camera pans past him as he puts the gun to his head, and you hear the gunshot as soon as he’s off camera, but you don’t see any blood or anything. Mark “Marky Mark” Wahlberg’s older brother Donnie Wahlberg of “New Kids on the Block,” incidentally. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/54 "2008-10-28T21:37:39Z")
> [@spoike](#): > > … Note to self: apply for trademark on username; send threatening letter to **spoike**. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/55 "2008-10-28T21:47:56Z")
Only one human being dies in **The Fly** , and it’s debatable just how “human” he is at the end, anyway. But there’s loads of goop and goo and gore before that. Plus a very graphic baboon death. Do zombie movies count? Most of the people who die get back up again… ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/56 "2008-10-28T22:52:42Z")
> [@Max Torque](#): > > Do zombie movies count? Most of the people who die get back up again… Zombies don’t count as alive, but if you can find a zombie movie where everybody dead gets reanimated, ill give you a million theoretical Internet dollars. Hey! This is my first thread with a second page. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/57 "2008-10-29T02:22:13Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > The cop (forgets his name) dies during the episode. You’re right, but I was thinking along the lines of ‘bad death’ like in a movie. Instead, it’s a man dying of old age. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![spoike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@spoike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spoike)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/58 "2008-10-29T02:23:01Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > Note to self: apply for trademark on username; send threatening letter to **spoike**. > > 😉 Yeah, I know. During the past week or so, I’ve been confused by your name a couple of times. I see a post by me, glance at it, think “What? I didn’t write that!” and then realize it’s you. It’s generally been on subjects about which I know nothing (banking crisis, BBQ, Confederacy, etc.) so it’s been extra startling. I’m going to have to think about changing my name, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/59 "2008-10-29T07:13:37Z")
How about _The Amityville Horror_? Can’t remember any deaths in that one. ---
**Author:** ![mske](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@mske](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mske)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950/60 "2008-10-29T13:39:59Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > How about _The Amityville Horror_? Can’t remember any deaths in that one. I was just going to say that one as well. But you have to ignore all the shootings at the start of the movie that “explain” the house, so you have to bend the rules. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-horror-films-where-nobody-dies-open-spoilers/469950.md?page=4)