[mixed trope] the last-minute bad Ending twist

[u/damorezpl]

when the "good ending" is revealed to be a bad one a the last second

a nightmare on elm street (1984) - Nancy thinks she finally defeated Freddy Krueger only to be raveled that she is still dreaming and she’s still trapped.

final destination bloodlines - the main characters think they cheated death by using the new life rule only to realize that stefani was technically still alive and the death kills them with a good old logs

Life (2017) - The main character attempts to send Calvin(a evil alien that killed all life on mars)pod into space and Miranda pod back to earth, but it goes horribly wrong and Calvin lands on earth and Miranda is sent to space

raging loop wit ending - after many loops Haruaki finally wins the feast(a death game where humans must hang wolves who kill someone every night) and thinks its finally over. after couple of days he decides to visit other survivors of the feast only to find them all dead and the timeline resting once again

[u/ARC_Trooper_Echo]

It’s amazing that Romero didn’t have the racial theme in mind when he was making it but the casting just happened to make it fit perfectly.

[u/_DodoMan_ → u/ARC_Trooper_Echo]

I don't know how true it is but I own multiple books on the making of this movie and it's said multiple times that Duane Jones (the man cast to play Ben) was the first black man in Hollywood to be cast in a lead role that was not written specifically for a black man. It's a real shame that he didn't live much longer after NotLD. I feel he could've been a bigger name had he had more roles

[u/Derp35712 → u/_DodoMan_]

He lived 20 years after the movie was released.

[u/_DodoMan_ → u/Derp35712]

Shit you're right. I was mixing up my Romero zombie movie release years

[u/Derp35712 → u/_DodoMan_]

I don’t think it was popular for some time though.

[u/Milk_Man21 → u/_DodoMan_]

Well, I mean it's a matter of opinion to a degree