10 Horror Movie Characters You Couldn't Wait To See Die

10. Wooley - Dawn Of The Dead

The one singular upside to the world going to hell in a decorative handbasket via zombie plague is that suddenly those pesky rules society implements are out the window. So if someone is ticking you off, you don't have to worry about silly things like laws and courts and jail when you decide to put hot lead between their eyes.

Dawn Of The Dead is a classic for many reasons, but a big mark in its favor is the fact that it gets going IMMEDIATELY. Right off the bat, we're treated to the zombies overwhelming an impoverished neighborhood and a squad of cops being sent in to contain it. Naturally, the cops send in their best, most coolheaded men who know the difference between the walking dead and the running living and who will make sure to - nope, I can't even finish that sentence. Of course, the cops are a bunch of meathead losers who are chomping at the bit to shoot some poor people.

Representing them is Wooley, a violently racist psycho even by these brain trusts' standards. Not even on screen for 20 minutes, but the audience hates him every second. So of course Romero has one of the cops get tired of his schtick, and shoot him in the head, leaving his corpse for the zombies.