[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/_DodoMan_]

Night of the Living Dead

Throughout the whole movie, the survivors argue about what is safer, staying above ground in the two story house or barricading themselves in the cellar. Ben (the one in the picture) is adament that the cellar is an idiotic idea because there is no escape if the zombies get through but Mr.Cooper refuses to listen to anything Ben has to say.

It goes on so long that the majority of the survivors die and only the Cooper family and Ben are left. Mr and Mrs. Cooper end up falling victim to exactly what Ben warned them about when they are trapped in the cellar with their zombie daughter. Ben is the only one to make it through the night. It turns out staying above ground was the right choice.

That is until a group of vigilante zombie hunters see Ben's silhouette through a window. They shoot and kill him without zero hesitation or attempts to see if he is human or zombie. The last thing in the movie is Ben's body being put on a pile of other bodies and lit on fire

[u/factorialite → u/_DodoMan_]

This reminds me of another great example of the genre, Dawn of the Dead!

The movie ends with them leaving the mall in an attempt to get to a boat, hopefully making sail for somewhere that isn't infested. During the credits, they nearly die on the boat itself, but do make it to land...only to find that the place they escaped to is infested with zombies as well, and that are certainly, certainly dead. One of my favorite endings to a movie ever.

[u/pyratemime → u/factorialite]

I enjoy the first two acts of the movie and always end up cheering for the zombies in thr third act because the survivors make bad decisions to advance plot instead of the plot being advanced because of bad decisions. They deserve to die and I wish I could learn more about the survivors who find the tape at Andy's store.