# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/61 "2012-04-28T05:27:24Z")
The 2003 scuba diving film, [Open Water.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374102/) (O.K., the rest of the tour boat lives, but I think they had maybe 5 lines of dialogue the whole movie?) ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/62 "2012-04-28T06:58:07Z")
> [@SweetLucy](#): > > I forgot how to do the “spoiler” function 😕 Type it like this : [noparse]spoiler text here[/noparse] which gives you: John actually doesn’t die. I don’t think it’s an accessible button in the post box. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/63 "2012-04-28T07:04:24Z")
The remake of Dawn Of The Dead has a short sequence after the credits which reveals every died. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/64 "2012-04-28T07:27:49Z")
The fate of the last survivor in _Dog Soldiers_ is left ambiguous, IIRC. He’s shown killing the last of the werewolves but whether or not he dies as well is left unstated. ---
**Author:** ![satogata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@satogata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/satogata)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/65 "2012-04-28T14:12:45Z")
Mildly surprised to see that nobody’s yet mentioned the 1972 eco-scifi film Silent Running. Well, okay, some trees and bunny and a robot survive, but none of the human characters. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/66 "2012-04-28T15:18:39Z")
Meanwhile, in the ocean… Deep Water ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/67 "2012-04-28T16:13:55Z")
I can’t recall for sure, but it seems to me everybody who mattered in the Civil War film _ **Glory** _ died. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/68 "2012-04-28T16:20:31Z")
Oh, yeah, and the WWII film _ **Das Boot** _. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/69 "2012-04-28T16:31:51Z")
> [@bup](#): > > Oh, yeah, and the WWII film > > _ **Das Boot** _. Not so: The reporter lived. ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/70 "2012-04-28T19:44:18Z")
My first thought was the classic, zeitgeist-capturing 1969 end-of-the-hippy-dream biker movie: The Green Berets starring Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, and Dennis Hopper. It ushered in an age of films with downer endings, including _Electra Guide in Blue_, _Silent Running_, _Soldier Blue_, _Phase IV_, etc. _Phase IV_ had one of those endings in which there are no human characters left human at the end, although they’re still _alive_. As ant-human hybrids. Thank God for the spoiler tag, eh? Without it people might guess what the film is. Nicholson’s character is stabbed, Hopper gets shot, Fonda is blown up. They blew it. TV-wise there’s Blake’s Seven, although there’s some debate as to whether Vila (at least) survives. And the TV version of Edge of Darkness ended with the two heroes either dead or dying. And the human race as a whole is revealed to be living on borrowed time. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/71 "2012-04-29T00:24:23Z")
> [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](#): > > And the human race as a whole is revealed to be living on borrowed time. Well, by that standard, so is The Walking Dead. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/72 "2012-04-29T02:14:47Z")
2007 Spanish horror film, remade as a scene-for-scene US release in 2008 \* [REC]\* or _Quarantine_ for the US release ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/73 "2012-04-29T02:46:13Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I can’t recall for sure, but it seems to me everybody who mattered in the Civil War film > > _ **Glory** _ died. Well, the real Colonel Shaw and all his men WERE killed and buried together in a mass grave. They were the subject of Robert Lowell’s great poem “For the Union Dead.” ---
**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 29, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/74 "2012-04-29T04:03:14Z")
_Reservoir Dogs_ … possibly. Every main character except Mr Pink definitely dies. It’s not entirely clear what happens to Mr Pink. He leaves the warehouse then there is gunfire and shouting outside, but it’s hard to make out any actual words.I’ve heard that Tarrantino intended for him to be captured alive. If so, he’d likely have ended up on death row. Mr Orange’s cop buddy survives, but that’s just a minor character. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/75 "2012-04-29T05:42:21Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I can’t recall for sure, but it seems to me everybody who mattered in the Civil War film > > _ **Glory** _ died. Real life spoiler: [spoiler]This is a case where the real world was just a little less grim than the fiction, most of the regiment did die, but several survived like this solder: [William Harvey Carney - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harvey_Carney) [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/76 "2012-04-29T06:04:56Z")
The Mechanic from 1972, every named character is dead by the end. In fact the final death before the credits made me say HAH 🙂 in a good way. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/77 "2012-04-29T10:25:24Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > The fate of the last survivor in _Dog Soldiers_ is left ambiguous, IIRC. He’s shown killing the last of the werewolves but whether or not he dies as well is left unstated. The background images in the closing credits imply that he sold his story to the tabloids, so I would say that he survived. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/78 "2012-04-29T14:35:25Z")
_Ten Little Indians_ qualifies I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Amaleen6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@Amaleen6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaleen6)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/79 "2012-04-29T21:25:29Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > I can think of an Eighties horror-comedy… > > In _ **Return of the Living Dead** _, the Army is notified of the zombie plague, and they nuke the area, killing both the zombies AND the people who’d managed to survive I love that movie. “Send more cops…” ---
**Author:** ![Amaleen6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@Amaleen6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaleen6)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044/80 "2012-04-29T21:32:02Z")
Does it count that I wanted Tom Hanks to die in _Castaway?_ My God, that movie was boring. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-in-which-everyone-dies-unavoidable-spoilers-but-try-to-be-kind/620044.md?page=5)