10 Film Characters Who Suffered Horrendous Fates In Other Media

John Carpenter's Vampires may not be the director's best work, but it's far from his worst. Taken from ideas the director had and a John Steakley novel called Vampire$, Carpenter is clearly having a blast mixing and matching his two favourite genres in ways more unapologetic than he had before. There had been elements of Westerns in Carpenter's horror, most notably Rio Bravo, but never was there such a clear link.

James Woods stars in the last role to genuinely use the actor in any intimidating way. He's Jack Crow, the no-nonsense Vampire hunter who leads a troop of soldiers that clear out "nests" in the New Mexico desert. It's the kind of knowing, winking masculinity that would be toxic if it didn't have a sense of humour about itself.

Crow may be set up as a Woods-ian character, constantly being a wiseass, but he spent time fighting The Ant War with second-in-command Felix on other planets.

Steakley's Armor is a novel much like Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers minus the political commentary. with giant alien bugs fighting against soldiers in robot exoskeletons. The two battled through different planets only to join up to fight the undead.

Crow survived that only to be killed halfway through the novel by the "lead vampire". His undead form is later taken out by Felix while trying to assassinate the Pope.