No One Lives is a horror film directed by Ryûhei Kitamura (Versus, The Midnight Meat Train) and produced by WWE Films.
A gang of violent marauders has just botched their latest job when they happen upon a traveling couple and decide to coax them to part with their valuables through torture. Unfortunately for them, the male of the couple is a serial killer.
This film provides examples of the following tropes:
- Black-and-Gray Morality: It's a group of brutal career criminals versus a serial killer. Though at times it's difficult to tell who's the "gray" in the movie.
- Car Fu: The man takes down Flynn with the sheriff's car.
- Carcass Sleeping Bag: The Driver hides himself in the very large and bulky Ethan after killing him so Ethan's cohorts would take him to their hideout.
- Dead Star Walking: Lee Tergesen dies rather quickly.
- Decoy Protagonist:
- The Driver is the Big Bad and the thugs are the Villain Protagonists unlike what it seemed earlier.
- Amber seemed to be set up as a decoy Final Girl.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Even knowing he was a bastard, Hoag cares deeply for his brother Ethan and his daughter Amber.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Played with as while he treated her like shit afterwards, Flynn was still shocked to see Emma in the back of Driver's car, helping her out.
- Flynn himself induces that reaction in other members of the group, who seem to only tolerate him because he's just that good at violence. Indeed, he's the only one to actually give the Driver a decent fight before going down.
- "Everybody Dies" Ending: Subverted. You would think this based on the title, but nope.
- Evil Versus Evil: Violent marauders versus a psychopathic serial killer.
- Final Girl: Emma, who is also a Final Girl of another story. She confronts the man at the end who killed her friends and kidnapped her, but she's ultimately set free at the end.
- Gorn: There is a lot of blood in the film, from cut throats to being fed into a woodchipper to multiple people shot in the head and the camera isn't afraid to linger on the after-effects.
- Improvised Weapon: A lot of the weapons Driver uses including a loose handcuff to stab through the chin and out the mouth, a clipboard...which somehow cuts through the victim's neck, a woodchipper and even a running engine to the face.
- Moe Greene Special: A cop takes a fatal bullet to the eye.
- Pay Evil unto Evil: Almost the whole idea of the film, a group of violent criminals forced to go against a violent psychopath.
- Sickbed Slaying: In the end, the Driver sneaks into Denny's hospital room and kills him.
- Slashed Throat: This is how Betty kills herself.
- Token Evil Teammate: Okay, so they're career criminals which obviously means they're less than nice at the best of times; it's pretty obvious, however, that Hoag and his team are disgusted by Flynn's murderous antics.
- Trailers Always Spoil: The trailer gives away the plot twist, and some of the deaths.
- Your Head Asplode: Flynn's death by shotgun blast to the face.
