10 Most Gruesome Zombie Movie Deaths

10. Captain Rhodes - Day Of The Dead

Perhaps the most iconic zombie kill of all time, and it couldn't have happened to a worse bloke. Buried in an underground bunker with a contingent of scientists and soldiers, Captain Henry Rhodes (Joseph Pilato) turns tinpot dictator when the stresses of life in a zombie apocalypse get too much for him. Turning on the scientists he had hitherto been protecting, he and his men are torn to shreds when the beasts inevitably make their way into the compound.

As the film's heroes chopper out to safety, Rhodes finds himself trapped and doomed - first shot by zombie Bub, then cornered by the horde. As the zombies descend upon Rhodes's injured, prone body, he is ripped in half - intestines spilling out to be consumed by the living dead. "Choke on 'em," Rhodes screams as he dies - horribly, and in grisly detail, thanks to the special effects work of Tom Savini - "choke on 'em!"