13 Movies That Have Little Hope For Humanity

10. Night Of The Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead was the first major zombie movie, and also the first to present itself as a socio-political allegory.

There are numerous popular interpretations of the movie - perhaps most prominently that it's a critique of America's involvement in the Vietnam War - but the prevailing tenor is an extraordinarily depressing one where hope is in extremely short supply.

Though zombie movies these days - and even George A. Romero's own subsequent entries into the Living Dead franchise - tend to skew a little sillier and more hopeful, from first minute to last this film is ugly and brutal, with little hope in sight.

How It Ends: Nothing in this film is more depressing than its finale, where hero and sole survivor Ben (Duane Jones) is shot dead by a gang of rednecks who mistake him for a zombie.

The racial implications, especially with the movie releasing so soon after the assassinations of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., is undeniable. And on a broader level, it just cements what might be humanity's greatest and most disturbing fear of all: itself.