I was thinking the other day that it seemed to me that what nearly all Survivor movies have in common is a female survivor. It used to be that the predictable outcome was that the main guy and main girl would survive and live happily ever after. But then horror films started shaking it up and killing off the main male as a surprise twist, or a heroic sacrifice. Of course, most of the action adventure types have more males to begin with, about a 6-2 ratio advantage. This post lists some movies with no surviving members of either sex. Of course, i'm really only considering the main cast. The mail man you see for 30 seconds at the beginning may not die, but we're not counting those very minor characters.
No Female Survivors
- The Thing*
- Evil Dead
- Alien 3
- Deep Blue Sea
- The Mist
- Wolf Creek
- Cube
- Devil
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| No Male Survivors
- The Thing (2011)
- Evil Dead (2013)
- Alien
- Alien vs Predator
- Ghost Ship
- The Ruins
- The Descent*
- Open Water
- The Reef
- Prometheus
- House of 9
- My Little Eye
- Cold Prey
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| No Survivors.
- The Descent 2
- Apollo 18
- Cabin in the Woods?
- 2001 Maniacs
- Sunshine
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*None to begin with
The list is not complete. Just whipped up off the top of my head. To be honest, I am surprised there are so many movies with only male survivors. I don't dislike that at all, but the final girl is a really old formula for horror films. If I were to add the slasher films, the list in the middle would be much, much larger. I mostly watch the adventure, sci-fi survival movies. SyFy channel movies are too difficult to catalog, and I think most of them would not make the lists above anyway. Why? Because even with a low budget they can't even think of unique outcomes to their movies. They all end the same way. What's interesting to note is that in the remakes of The Thing and Evil Dead they switched to a sole female survivor ending. Considering that that's pretty much the norm for slasher films - I wonder why they thought that would be interesting?
