10 Best Movie Deaths Of 2019

4. Teddy McGiggle (Little Monsters)

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In Little Monsters, Josh Gad plays Teddy McGiggle, a children's TV presenter who is all smiles and happiness on the outside, but on the inside, he hates his job, and is only doing it so he can sleep with the mothers of the kids that he entertains.

After hiding out in a gift shop to avoid the zombie outbreak that's raging on outside, Teddy and fellow survivor Dave decide to make a break for it by finding a vehicle and driving away to safety. They successfully reach the McGiggle-mobile, but in a cruel and cowardly turn, Teddy betrays Dave and tries to take it for himself, which proves to be a fatal lapse of judgement.

You see, one of Teddy's staff has been turned into a zombie in the back of the van, and - still wearing a hand puppet of Frogsy, Teddy's show's mascot - the zombie pokes into the front of the vehicle, rips out Teddy's insides, and tears half his face off.

The way that Teddy screams to Dave as he dies is bloody hilarious, and the fact that he was killed by a zombie wearing his show's cute mascot is a funny and clever representation of how doing a job he hated killed Teddy on the inside.

Layers? In a zombie movie? Who'd have thunk it.

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Danny has been with WhatCulture for almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.