# Movies in which Everyone Dies; unavoidable spoilers, but try to be kind **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 26, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044 "2012-04-26T19:04:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/41 "2012-04-27T01:46:06Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I’m not going to spoiler a 400-year old work. Doesn’t every adaptation of \*Hamlet \*count? The biggest character to survive is Horatio. But Horatio is a pretty big character. > [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Lost 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/42 "2012-04-27T02:05:05Z")
The 1998 Canadian film _Last Night_. Everyone knows the world is going to end at a specific time, and has known for weeks or months. The movie shows the last few hours of several characters in Toronto. IIRC there us no explanation of either why the world is ending or how everyone knows it. And then everyone… dies. Very good film, I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/43 "2012-04-27T02:08:20Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > In Agatha Christie’s \*\*\*And Then There Were None \*\*\*(also called \*\*\*Ten Little \*\*\*_ **Indians** _), That’s not the only thing it was “also called.” [And Then There Were None](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None) shows the first edition’s cover, with its original title. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/44 "2012-04-27T02:43:14Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > If you want a TV series, there was **Dinosaurs**. Especially notable because it was a family comedy. Speaking of old sitcoms, there was also _Sledge Hammer,_ except ABC decided to renew it, so they had to make Season 2 a prequel. And that’s a proper use of the spoiler box! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/45 "2012-04-27T02:51:32Z")
> [@tullsterx](#): > > Sunshine. . . I don’t think that’s implied, but you really don’t see him die. Implied…or implode? He fell into the fucking sun! The Departed - Yeah pretty much everyone. 2001: A Space Odyssey - Well technically David Bowman doesn’t die. But something happens. Quarantine panamajack - No, that is not correct. We know that Matt Damon and others have an immunity. ---
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/46 "2012-04-27T03:24:10Z")
_Doctor Who._ The Doctor, of course, has died many times, and being a time-traveller, it’s pretty much guaranteed that anyone he interacts with is dead during some of his other adventures. More seriously, _The Church_ mostly qualifies Except for the one girl that does escape, but then you see her unleashing the evil from the ruins, which is pretty much just as bad ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/47 "2012-04-27T03:28:19Z")
You probably slept though it: Melancholia. It was self spoilered so you could just go home without having to watch the entire thing. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/48 "2012-04-27T03:59:30Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > If you want a TV series, there was **Dinosaurs**. Especially notable because it was a family comedy. If TV shows count, well… forget the spoiler box. Howard Stern killed off the entire cast in the final episode of his sitcom _ **Son of the Beach.** _ ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/49 "2012-04-27T06:04:01Z")
> [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > You probably slept though it: > > Melancholia. > > It was self spoilered so you could just go home without having to watch the entire thing. Just watched it. I want my 2 hours back. Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/50 "2012-04-27T07:07:42Z")
Monty Python’s _The Meaning of Life_ possibly counts, though the characters persist in an afterlife. I’m guessing “afterlife” films don’t really count. Or films where the main characters are [un]dead, like _Ahh! Zombies!_, in which they become zombies at the start. And there’s the film semi-referenced by _The Meaning of Life_’s section on death, _The Seventh Seal_ A few characters are alive at the end, though I suppose it is implied they will die. Someday. It seems that most of the non-horror ones that fit the OP are those in which _all_ humans die. I’m surprised there aren’t more in the _Hamlet_ mold, a tragedy in which just the major characters die. Which makes me think of one that fits, Akira Kurosawa’s Shakespeare-inspired Ran. I just watched this and don’t recall if Kyoami (the “Fool”) was explicitly shown dead, but he’s not really a major character in the tragedy. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/51 "2012-04-27T07:24:38Z")
In the late 19th century and start of the 20th, both theatrical and novellated dramas were getting gorier and gorier, dreadier and dreadier, with people jumping off cliffs and poisoning themselves and heroines dying of consumption and… the line which came to be used to describe these is _¡se muere hasta el apuntador!_ (even the prompter dies!). Pedro Muñoz Seca’s _La Venganza de Don Mendo_ (Don Mendo’s Revenge) opened in 1918 and has become one of the most-represented works in Spanish theater; it’s a very common choice for amateur groups. There is a _[Venganza de Don Mendo](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055588/)_ movie, with Fernando Fernán Gómez playing Don Mendo, which some people have criticized because “it doesn’t even try to look like a movie, it’s just a theater recording with no public and retakes”. Well, yeah… but if it was a movie they wouldn’t be able to kill the prompter! Which, yes, Don Mendo’s Revenge is, AFAIK, the only play which truly does. ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/52 "2012-04-27T07:40:57Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > The Departed - Yeah pretty much everyone. But not _Infernal Affairs_, which is one of the reasons it’s a hell of a lot better. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/53 "2012-04-27T09:00:40Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > 😕 I take it you didn’t see the finale, or have edited out of your memory. Probably for the best. ---
**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:** [April 27, 2012, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/54 "2012-04-27T11:15:26Z")
I might mention something mentioned before, since I don’t want to go through an unspoiler something i might want to watch. They’re not all dead yet, but will be shortly after the end of the 1982 science fiction film The Thing And the same for last year’s prequel of the same name The Thing Speaking of science fiction in nthat venue, everyone ends up dead at the end of the TV movie also set in the Arctic/Antarctic “A Cold Night’s Death” Everybody isn’t dead, but will bne doomed, at the end of the Original Series episode of The Outer Limits’ “Feasibility Study” ---
**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:** [April 27, 2012, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/55 "2012-04-27T12:04:25Z")
Just as in the original story, everyone dies at the end of the Roger Corman Poe films _The Masque of the Red Death_ and (well, almost everyone) in _The Fall of the House of Usher_ ---
**Author:** ![Stelios](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Stelios](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stelios)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/56 "2012-04-27T14:52:50Z")
The UK TV series **Dead Set** - A terrific satirical horror about a global zombie outbreak which consumes the whole of humanity…except for the contestants for that year’s Big Brother. Needless to say, the fortifications of the BB house don’t hold out indefinitely, and all the characters either kill eachother or turn into zombies. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/57 "2012-04-27T14:55:15Z")
It’s a good thing they were Brits, I’m reasonably sure that Spanish BB contestants have to prove they’re braindead during the casting process. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/58 "2012-04-27T16:07:15Z")
The UK SF TV series, **Blake’s 7**. I don’t have to spoiler it, since it’s notorious for ending that way. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2012, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/59 "2012-04-27T22:25:22Z")
> [@PlainJain](#): > > Just watched it. I want my 2 hours back. Yuck. I fast-forwarded to see Kirsten Dunst naked. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SweetLucy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@SweetLucy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SweetLucy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/60 "2012-04-28T05:10:55Z")
I forgot how to do the “spoiler” function 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044.md?page=4)