10 Best 'I'm Dead And I Know It' Moments In Apocalypse Horror Movies

10. Robert Neville - I Am Legend

Though the film gets dunked on a lot now, we all secretly enjoyed it at least a small amount. If nothing else of value, at least we got some nice moments involving Will Smith playing with a cute dog.

In a way, I Am Legend’s Darkseekers are quite similar to the zombies in Zach Synder’s Army of the Dead - intelligent, monstrous humanoids. It’s just that these ones don’t have the benefit of 2020 special effects, so in retrospect they often seem a bit goofy.

Smith plays protagonist Robert Neville, a virologist who is searching for a cure for the Darkseeker virus in post-apocalyptic Manhattan. When, at long last, he manages to find what seems to be a cure, he’s faced with the possibility of losing it all to a Darkseeker siege.

Accompanied by this point by two fellow survivors, he makes the decision to sacrifice himself in order to save them and the cure. He shuts the other two into a chute with a vial of cured blood, calmly turning around to see the beasts about to break through the glass and tear him apart.

He opens a draw, taking out a picture of his wife and daughter, smiling slightly before reaching for a grenade. His relaxed demeanor shows he has resigned himself to death, thinking of his family and of the possibility for a future after his death, he goes out like a champ.