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Topic	Why do some horror movies end with the main character(s) dying.
Gaawa_chan 08/07/21 1:14:31 AM #4:	Carter-A259 posted... Like wtf is the point of the movie then? Depends on the individual movie. Some of them are making social commentary, for example, like Night of the Living Dead. Really obvious example, where the black hero survives the zombies only to be gunned down by a bunch of trigger happy white people. There's cautionary tales, as mentioned. Frankenstein isn't killed on-screen, but it's implied he's going to die going after his creation by the end as I recall, and the whole story of Frankenstein is a sort of sci-fi cautionary tale. There's also playing into the ideas of either a twist ending (lots of slashers) or using the theme of powerlessness/hopelessness/fate/etc (Hereditary), or genre tradition, even. But it's like... you have to choose the tone of your ending. You want it hopeful? Hopeless? Bittersweet? Ambiguous? Shocking? Whether or not your protag survives/escapes and how they survive/die/escape (and also, whether or not they are corrupted by the end) is useful for setting the final tone of the piece. --- Hi <cite>Gaawa_chan posted [p:956855482] in Why do som... [t:79602375]...</cite> <quote>Carter-A259 posted... </cite> <quote>Like wtf is the point of the movie then?</quote>Depends on the individual movie. Some of them are making social commentary, for example, like Night of the Living Dead. Really obvious example, where the black hero survives the zombies only to be gunned down by a bunch of trigger happy white people. There's cautionary tales, as mentioned. Frankenstein isn't killed on-screen, but it's implied he's going to die going after his creation by the end as I recall, and the whole story of Frankenstein is a sort of sci-fi cautionary tale. There's also playing into the ideas of either a twist ending (lots of slashers) or using the theme of powerlessness/hopelessness/fate/etc (Hereditary), or genre tradition, even. But it's like... you have to choose the tone of your ending. You want it hopeful? Hopeless? Bittersweet? Ambiguous? Shocking? Whether or not your protag survives/escapes and how they survive/die/escape (and also, whether or not they are corrupted by the end) is useful for setting the final tone of the piece. --- Hi</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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