10 Horror Movie Villains Everyone HATED

6. Captain Henry Rhodes - Day of the Dead

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More than any other horror villain on this list, Day of the Dead's Captain Rhodes (Joseph Pilato) is one who many fans of the movie love to hate. While this unhinged military leader is an unrepentant psychopath whose domineering behaviour basically ends up getting a lot of people dead, Joseph Pilato's swinging-for-the-fences performance is so damn entertaining it's tough not to enjoy every second of his screen time.

Rhodes rules with an iron fist, to put it mildly, and is exactly the sort of gross tyrant nobody wants to be stuck in a bunker with during an end-of-the-world situation. And duly, George A. Romero delivers a fitting end for Rhodes by having him get brutally torn apart - is there any other way? - by a fleet of the undead. 

However, Rhodes gets one hell of a final sign-off, telling the zombies with hilarious disdain as they chow down on his guts, "Choke on 'em!"

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