Zombie movies tend to ride a fine line between fun and despair.
The dead rise, or a disease infects people and turns them feral.
Society can and often does crumble,and many zombie films have characters who could die at any moment.

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Then there are the following films, which all end up being pretty bleak.
The following article will contain spoilers for various zombie movies.
The pacing ofThe Wailingis slow and consistently offbeat, but the energy and atmosphere heredo prove slowly intoxicating.

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Thats not being argued here.
Argue it somewhere else!
So, everyone dies, and then its implied that everyone else dies.

Then, the credits roll.
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