10 Zombie Movie Horror Fates Worse Than Death

10. Being Trapped By This B*stard! - The Return Of The Living Dead

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Even though the movie itself is delivered with its tongue firmly in its cheek, the comedic elements of The Return of the Living Dead still can't stop certain scenes from being completely and utterly terrifying.

Case in point: Tarman.

Reanimated and with his skin having melted off, Tarman is an eerie proposition just for his sheer appearance. And for Beverly Randolph's Tina, she's left shrieking in terror after the mangled, skinless form of Tarman turns up behind her on his quest to eat brains.

Thinking on her feet, Tina takes refuge in a nearby locker, but she's then trapped as this hungry fella continues to demand her grey matter as his next meal. Not just that, the rescue bid from Tina's pals ends up with Suicide being attacked by Tarman and then having his brains eaten.

At having to witness this, one would imagine that the panicked Tina was wishing for a quick death while she was trapped inside her locker. Instead, that death came for all of the inhabitants of Louisville, when the military's answer to their zombie problem was to just simply nuke the whole town.

As for Tarman, he, too, was likely wishing for his own permanent death, rather than what he was turned into.

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