Horror movies often thrill audiences with their high-stakes tension, but a unique sense of discomfort comes from a movie where no one makes it out alive. Instead of a great “Final Girl” braving her way through a scary situation, nihilistic endings strip away any hope of survival, leaving viewers with a chilling sense of dread. Horror movies where absolutely everyone dies highlight the genre’s darkest, most unforgiving conclusions.

Whether it’s through ritualistic sacrifices, supernatural forces, deadly creatures, apocalyptic circumstances, or deadly viral outbreaks, a horror film may present a relentless march toward doom with a story that refuses to let anyone escape death. They don’t just frighten with jump scares and gore but also emphasize the inevitability of death by creating movie endings so bleak that they linger even longer. Some horror movies don’t let anyone escape, instead reminding audiences that sometimes the greatest terror is the absence of hope…

• The Thing (1982)
• Quarantine (2008)
• Unfriended (2014)
• The Blair Witch Project (1999)
• Dead Silence (2007)
• Cabin Fever (2002)
• House Of 1000 Corpses (2003)
• Final Destination 5 (2011)
• Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
• The Cabin In The Woods (2011)