There is hope that someone is going to live. The bad guys will lose, life will go on. But not in this film. No giddy, happy ending here. He's not even personified or anything in the movie.
Death is simply a breath of wind, a cold chill, a pool of liquid.
The film stars a bunch of young actors who are all going to die eventually. They do a fine job of acting like people who are actually alive at the moment. Like it matters. We were all better off in the womb. Tony Todd makes a wonderful appearance as the only person in the movie who understands his place in the grand scheme of things.