50 Infuriating Horror Movie Characters We All Secretly Wanted To Die

50. Night Of The Living Dead - Harry Cooper

Kicking off the list, we've got Harry Cooper (Karl Hardman) from George A. Romero's awesome, ground-breaking zombie classic Night of the Living Dead. If a zombie outbreak occurs and you're holed up somewhere, this is exactly the kind of guy you wouldn't want to be stuck with. 

Throughout Night of the Living Dead, Harry stubbornly believes that he knows best and antagonizes everyone else in the farmhouse that he and his family end up in. The main target of his vitriol is Ben (Duane Jones), who's notable as being one of the very first African-American leads for a horror movie. It seems like that racial prejudice motivates Harry's aggressive attitude towards him, and he tries to leave Ben outside to die late in the film, his lowest moment for sure. Sadly, it was easy to predict given what we'd already seen of him. 

George A. Romero was always one for creating some particularly detestable horror characters (this isn't the last time you'll see his work on this list), and they were useful vehicles for the stinging, misanthropic social commentary that rings throughout his movies. Rather thoughtfully, he tended to give such characters particularly brutal deaths. In this case, Cooper is shot dead by Ben, and his zombified daughter proceeds to feast on his corpse. 

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