13 Movies That Have Little Hope For Humanity

13. The Mist

Stephen King's novella The Mist wasn't exactly all sunshine and rainbows, but Frank Darabont opted to make his 2007 movie adaptation an alien invasion movie of an uncommonly grim order.

At its core this is an achingly human film about how fragile society is, and how quickly people would turn on one another in an intense crisis scenario.

As terrifying as the Lovecraftian monsters are, it's the people - especially Maria Gay Harden's tyrannical religious zealot Mrs. Carmody - who prove the most horrifying.

How It Ends: Protagonist David (Thomas Jane) find his wife dead, and shortly thereafter drives past a gigantic, tentacled monster several hundred feet in height.

This prompts David and his fellow survivors to give up, committing to a suicide pact which sees David shoot the three adults along with his own young son.

David doesn't have a bullet left for himself, so he walks out into the mist waiting to be devoured, only for a military tank to roll through the mist, revealing that if they'd waited just a few minutes longer, they'd see that the alien invasion was being successfully repelled.

It's an ending so critical of human fatalism and our own self-destructive tendencies you might not know whether to laugh or cry, honestly.