10 Best Movies Where Everyone Dies

Matt Reeves's apocalyptic movie about an unknown monster ravaging New York was never going to have a happy ending. How do you feasibly take down a creature 25 stories tall that's impervious to artillery fire, bombs, and missiles whilst watching from the camcorder of a bunch of scared party goers? No amount of party poppers are gonna take that beast down.

In that sense, Cloverfield functions entirely as a singular experience of a wide-scale event, and the death of its characters are a realistic enactment of what would happen in this type of crazy circumstance. It's not King Kong, or Godzilla, or a giant monster movie that sees mankind come out on top - it's just a group of individuals trying to survive in a scenario that's impossible to come out alive in.

And instead of sugarcoating it with a crew of Mary-Sues defying the ridiculous odds, the film bravely sticks to its themes, never explaining what's happened or why.

Whilst it's technically a convention of the found footage genre for everyone to die at the end, a giant invincible monster roaming around New York suggests that it isn't just our protagonists that face a grim fate. In any case, Cloverfield isn't afraid to wipe out its characters in increasingly tragic ways, and imbues a real atmosphere of tension by employing the wildly successful less-is-more tactic with its creature. We never know quite how or when it will strike - all to the power of Cloverfield's brutal ending.