10 Zombie Movies Where Everyone Dies
4. The Cabin In The Woods (2011)
Drew Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods is not predominantly a zombie movie by any stretch of the imagination, but it does slip into our list thanks to the inclusion and plot-centric appearance of the zombified Buckner family.
A group of young college students are manipulated into taking a break at a remote cabin. There they are terrorized by a family of undead zombies, something that has been carefully orchestrated by special engineers controlling all the action from an underground laboratory.
The movie itself is a send-up of horror tropes. It cleverly uses real-world mechanisms and influence to control the actions of the group to help them fall into pre-determined character clichés. Two survivors from the group come across a secret underground elevator, which takes them to a huge holding area filled with hundreds of creatures and supernatural beings, which they release into the facility.
The movie is a smorgasbord of horror subgenres, pulling together familiar horror figures, mythical creatures, and beasts. The creatures manage to tear the facility apart, killing everyone around. The real horror comes when it’s revealed that the whole experiment is carried out for the sacrificial pleasure of the “Ancient Ones” - an experiment that fails, resulting in the complete obliteration of mankind.