20 Gory Movie Moments That Left Horror Fans Cheering
2. The Death Of Captain Rhodes - Day Of The Dead (1985)
Director George A. Romeros third film in his Living Dead series is different from the others in that it uses gore sparingly. For most of the film Romero teases the viewer with intermittent scenes of violence spliced between long sections of dialogue and context. Yet Romeros delicate hand in Day Of The Dead pays off in this scene that sees Captain Rhodes (Joseph Pilato), one of the eventual movie villains, getting literally torn apart by a pack of zombies.
After the death of his commander, Rhodes begins a slow descent into insanity and has a complete breakdown. This includes threatening anyone who disagrees with him before eventually turning into a fully fledged, cold blooded murderer.
After going so far down the moral ladder as to ditch his friends and leave them to die, Rhodes meets a suitably horrifying end when a partially domesticated zombie, Bub, hunts him down in a bit of zombie revenge glory. With both the terrifying image of an intelligent and armed zombie and Rhodes cries of choke on em as the undead feast upon his enlivened flesh, this demise is pretty much as horrific as you can get.