20 Horror Movie Happy Endings Nobody Saw Coming

20. Day of the Dead

Considering that George A. Romero's two previous zombie films had bleak and ambiguous endings respectively, few were expecting much of a hopeful outcome for the survivors of Day of the Dead.

And while the film certainly has plenty of gooey grimness to go around, it does nevertheless end on a fairly solid note for the central characters.

After the vile Captain Rhodes (Joseph Pilato) is torn apart by the undead, John (Terry Alexander), Sarah (Lori Cardille), and Bill (Jarlath Conroy) get to a chopper and fly it to a tropical island.

While the world has still been torn apart by an undead apocalypse, the trio seem quite safely siloed off on an island with a steady supply of fresh fish to catch. 

We can't know for sure what the future will hold for them, but considering everything leading up to that ending it's a surprisingly fortuitous outcome for the central survivors - almost jarringly so, in fact.