10 Sci-Fi Movies Where Everyone Dies

This remake of George Romero's 1978 genre classic marked Zack Snyder's first feature film, following a slew of music videos and Subaru commercials (one of which briefly features on a TV screen in the film). And his thirst for visual violence was already rife.

An expansive cast is whittled away through a series of impressive and ultra-violent set pieces as the initial survivors of a zombie apocalypse fight off some of the most brutal zombies cinema has seen - they can sprint! As is the way of most zombie flicks, the film's main characters are dispatched in creative fashion, including the shooting of a newly-zombied baby and suicide by exploding gas tank.

The ending of Snyder's Dawn of the Dead actually fakes audiences out, as the remaining characters - Ana, Kenneth, Nicole and Terry - seem to escape by boat, but camcorder footage playing through the credits reveals that the crew had to stop at a nearby island and were quickly swarmed by a ravenous zombie horde. Cheery stuff.

With the sequel imminent, maybe there will be a cameo from an unlikely survivor, but until then we're calling time on the entire cast.