10 Horror Movies Where You Know Nearly Everyone Will Die

2. Quarantine (2008)

John Erick Dowdle’s found footage horror Quarantine puts Jennifer Carpenter into action as Angela Vidal, a reporter who, along with her cameraman Scott Percival (Steve Harris), is confined to an apartment building, quarantined by the CDC when the residents go feral and start biting each other. Needless to say, zombies are the cause of this symptom.

Across a tight and intense 90 minutes, we watch up close as everyone in the apartment block is bitten and infected, down to just Angela and Scott. Scott goes next, right at the tail end (because it would be tough continuing without the cameraman), and then Angela is taken right after she retrieves the camera. Good stuff.

However, the Quarantine trailer and marketing material all made liberal use of the image of Angela, the final survivor, being dragged away into the darkness: literally the final image of the film. We knew most people in the picture were going to die, owing to the bulk of the trailer, and the fact that it’s a zombie film - where it’s conventional for few, if any, people to make it out the other side - but not the protagonist, too!

Yet this isn’t the first time this has happened for this very film. Quarantine is a remake of [Rec], which also spoiled its kills in the trailer - proving nobody learned anything the first time around.