10 Best Movies Where Everyone Dies

The Thing is John Carpenter's tale of an alien life form taking over human researchers in the isolated arctic wasteland after being discovered buried deep in the ice - manipulating their bodies for its own goal of assimilating all life into its own twisted vision.

Serving as Carpenter's seminal masterpiece and a staple in practical effects and body horror, The Thing is a paranoid fever dream playing out in a frozen wasteland. Never quite sure who has been infected or when the next creature will show itself, it plays on our fears of the unknown in horrifying fashion. Blood tests have never been so appealing.

Okay - this one is a little bit of a cheat, but it's unarguably implied that Childs has been assimilated by the alien 'thing' after disappearing into the tundra earlier in the movie, only to return and sit with MacReady and watch as the camp burns. Even if he hasn't been taken over by the unknown host, the pair are still doomed to freeze to death in the snow with no cover to speak of. If the The Thing lives, which is very likely, it will survive just as it has done for 100,000 years previously underground, and humanity is f*cked when it finds its way to civilisation.

It's a film where it's implied that at least all the main characters die, with an overarching notion that there will be a much larger pool of victims inbound. It counts, okay.