10 Horror Movies Even More Disturbing Than You Thought
8. The Survivors Are TOTALLY Screwed - Return Of The Living Dead
1985's cult classic zombie film Return of the Living Dead may ultimately be a horror-comedy, but it nevertheless offers up one of the most dread-inducing depictions of zombification in cinema history.
Mid-way through the movie, the survivors speak to one of the restrained zombies who reveals that the undead are not only conscious but can feel themselves agonisingly rotting from the inside out, and are so driven to eat brains in order to stave off that pain.
Couple this with the fact that both burning and dropping a nuke on the zombies only causes the toxic gas, Trioxin, to leak out and cause toxic, corpse-reanimating rainfall, and it's safe to say that what remains of humanity is caught in an inescapable death spiral.
Plus, with the film memorably showing that animals are also reanimated by Trioxin, the surviving humans have far more to worry about than merely a few billion undead humans, given that we account for just 0.01% of all biomass on Earth.
Though Return of the Living Dead broadly engages with the idea that the world is absolutely screwed, the experience of being a survivor seems all that much worse when you think long and hard about what day-to-life would really be like.