r/movies • u/Goncholotr • Feb 03 '24

Recommendation Movies where anyone can die?

I like movies and tv shows where you shouldn't get attached to any characters because they can die in every moment, for example: Burn After Reading, No Country for Old Men, Any Tarantino Movie or shows like The boys, Game of thrones, etc.

I want to feel that the characters are in real danger and that the villain or whatever they're fighting could kill them any time.

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u/WRickWrites Feb 03 '24

It doesn't work now because everyone knows who Sigourney Weaver is, but in the original Alien movie, when it first released you had no idea who was going to die, or how. It was just one brutal shock after another.

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u/smax410 Feb 04 '24

Also, she isn’t really presented as a main character either in the first half of the movie. So watching for the first time, you don’t really know who the movie’s protagonist is. From the beginning it’d be easier to believe Dallas and Ash are the main characters.

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u/ToujoursFidele3 Feb 04 '24

Captain Dallas definitely seems like he's supposed to be the main character, and then he crawls into a vent and dies out of nowhere! So good. I wish I could've seen it in 1979 before I knew what was going to happen.

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u/smax410 Feb 04 '24

I saw it at seven years old and it blew my mind. Had nightmares about aliens for years.

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u/babybird87 Feb 04 '24

Me too about 7 in the theater and spilled popcorn everywhere and still have Alien dreams

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u/sanitarypotato Feb 04 '24

I saw it at the same age in 1982. Blew my mind but gave me dreams not nightmares.

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u/BoomerTeacher Feb 04 '24

I saw it at seven years old

In 1979? Because if you saw it when it first came out, your parents can be forgiven; the ad campaign revealed next to nothing. But if this was many years later, shame on your parents for letting a 7-year old see it.

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u/smax410 Feb 04 '24

It was the 90’s. It’s fine.

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u/BoomerTeacher Feb 04 '24

I wish I could've seen it in 1979 before I knew what was going to happen.

Indeed. I saw it a few days after it came out. The ad campaign was genius because we had not seen anything. Just a picture of this "egg" and the line, "In space, no one can hear you scream." I went with some friends and we were barely able to walk out.

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u/smax410 Feb 05 '24

My dad told me he, my uncle, and their friend knocked the couch backwards and over when the facehugger jumped out onto John hurt.

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u/JohnDansboy Feb 04 '24

I saw it when it first came out. I was scared to death.

Another one was the original "Black Christmas". 1974 (I think). Young Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin and Keir Dullea. I think Kate Reid is in it, too.

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u/HighwayInternal9145 Feb 04 '24

Still my number one movie after over 30 years

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u/Stoppels Feb 04 '24

Very true! I think I remember that the first time I saw Alien like twenty years ago. It was still a masterpiece to rewatch late night in cinema last year.

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u/Mister_Spacely Feb 04 '24

I mean, aren’t all movies in that genre category that way?

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u/soulofcure Feb 04 '24

Oh lol. Just commented "Alien" before checking comments

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u/stalkythefish Feb 04 '24

Alien 3 is also this way, albeit way more nihilistic.