10 Horror Movie Characters Who Repeatedly Made The Wrong Decisions

10. Dr. John McCabe - The Beyond

As a famous movie villain once said, "You should've aimed for the head."

Lucio Fulci's classic 1981 zombie film The Beyond centers around Liza Merrill (Catriona MacColl), who inherits a Louisiana hotel which happens to be built over one of the entrances to Hell.

The other main character is Dr. John McCabe (David Warbeck), who apparently has never seen a zombie movie in his life before - perhaps a slightly more reasonable "crime" in 1981 - nor even appreciates the basic idea of cause-and-effect.

In the movie's climax, McCabe grabs a gun and starts firing away at the undead horde, but having no apparent familiarity with either firearms or zombies, he continually aims for the torso rather than the head.

However, one of his stray bullets does eventually catch a zombie in the head, killing them instantly. A seemingly revelatory lightbulb moment for McCabe, right? Nope.

Throughout the scene, McCabe bafflingly alternates between shooting the zombies in the chest and head, as though he just can't quite connect the dots as to why some of the zombies are dropping down dead-for-good and others aren't. For an apparent expert in anatomy, that's mighty dumb.