10 Best Movies Where Everyone Dies
2. The Cabin In The Woods
A film unafraid to openly cash in on its predecessors, The Cabin in the Woods takes all the best bits from classic horror movies and makes them entirely its own, stealing everything from outright plot points, settings, and even the monsters themselves. It's a giant melting pot of fun references whilst maintaining a genuinely clever twist on exactly WHY the film appropriates all these aspects; that reason being that government agencies must sacrifice stereotypical character tropes to the old gods to save our world from annihilation.
After following the classic spooky-film recipe for most of the film, all hell breaks loose when our inhabitants of the titular cabin realise their fate and decide to royally f*ck the planet by not dying. How selfish. A giant hand breaks through the Earth, and if the government is to be believed, literally everyone, everywhere, is screwed.
The Cabin in the Woods is particularly brilliant for the simple fact you can take any horror film you've ever watched and apply it to the formula laid out in the film - that their creation for our entertainment was actually based on a series of carefully curated events to protect the human race from an apocalyptic nightmare. It's outrageously clever, brilliantly nuanced, and the epitome of horror-comedy stylings.