Kurt Russell in The Thing
If you had to pick a movie genre to be a fictional character in, the least appealing would have to be the horror genre. Such films tend to feature characters stuck in awful situations, fighting for their lives and allowing viewers to experience the same tension/unease, but from the comfort of their homes, or a cinema. Not always, but often, characters in horror movies have more brushes with death than characters in other types of movies, particularly if it's a slasher film they're in.
9 'Alien 3' Director: David Fincher Alien 3 is brutal toward its characters, even by the standards of the Alien series. The first film has Ellen Ripley make it out alive as the sole survivor, while the second film, Aliens, has her make it out alive alongside Newt, Hicks, and Bishop, if androids count. But then, as far as the humans go, Newt and Hicks die off-screen between Aliens and Alien 3, which means the film’s already off to a grim start.
So long as you don’t count some of the minor characters interviewed during the film’s early stages, everyone of note dies or is at least implied to have died by the film’s end. Just what led to their deaths isn’t exactly known or, more accurately, isn’t seen, which helps the film remain unsettling on a budget.
6 'Night of the Living Dead' Director: George A. Romero Helping to establish various zombie movie tropes and conventions, including the idea that pretty much everyone can/will die, Night of the Living Dead is about as classic as 1960s B-movies get. It won’t have a premise that surprises anyone familiar with the countless zombie movies released in its wake, but it was something new for its time, being about a group of survivors hiding at a house and waiting out a zombie outbreak.
One thing the two movies have in common, though, is bleak endings where the humans prove unsuccessful, and the devastation is on an even greater scale in Return of the Living Dead. Those characters not killed by zombies are wiped out when the area they’re in is nuked, and this is followed by the reveal that the nuke will likely spread the gas that caused the outbreak further, thereby leading to even more deaths.
It’s also not particularly surprising that that’s where The Lighthouse ends up, but it’s more of a journey-focused film than a destination-centered one, and the journey is frequently exciting and wild. It’s certainly a strange film, but, in a weird way, it has something to offer everyone because of how varied it is tonally and when it comes to genre, so those looking to get into the arthouse genre a little more might find it a good starting point.
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