Daylight's End(2016)
2016 · William Kaufman · 105 min
Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.
Action · Horror · Science Fiction
5.9217 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
1/5
Stays with you
How scary is Daylight's End?
It moves like an action movie first and a horror movie second, opening with survival-mode urgency and settling into a siege structure where a group holed up in one building tries to fight or sneak their way out. Most of the fear comes from being chased and overrun rather than from creeping dread or mystery. The infected creatures are more physical threat than eerie presence, so this leans toward shootouts, close calls, and last-stand tension rather than anything that gets under your skin. It's the kind of movie you watch for adrenaline and body-count thrills, not for a lingering sense of unease.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Daylight's End rates psychological 1/5, visceral 4/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 1/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 1 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 1 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 65 of 100 — leans Jump scares
Supernatural vs Real-world: 30 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 20 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
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A steady build from tense survival scenes into a sustained, action-heavy final stretch that keeps ramping up with little letup.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 4.
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