8 Horror Characters We Were Happy To See Killed

5. Dennis Nedry - Jurassic Park

Nedry Jurassic Park
Universal Pictures

Death by Dilophosaurus is quite the way to go. And in the case of Jurassic Park's Dennis Nedry, it was a demise that was totally warranted.

With Seinfield favourite Wayne Knight in the role, Dennis was a no-good sort who took a hefty payday to smuggle dinosaur embryos off Isla Nublar. But payback for his underhandedness was waiting to bite Dennis on the backside, quite literally.

Computer programmer Nedry was actually the person responsible for the chaos and carnage of that first Jurassic Park, with him being the one to disable the park's security gates and release a whole slew of dinosaurs. Tinged in irony, then, it was only right and fair that Dennis himself was devoured by one of these dinosaurs.

Finding himself stalked by a Dilophosaurus, Nedry tried to distract the creature by attempting to play fetch with it. Having none of it, the Dilophosaurus sprayed its toxic venom directly into Dennis' eyes. Then, with this scumbag thinking he'd managed to get to safety in his nearby jeep, it turns out that the one and the same Dilophosaurus is waiting in that vehicle to devour him.

It may not be quite as cool as Jurassic Park's infamous scene where a lawyer gets eaten while on the toilet, but Dennis Nedry getting his comeuppance was something that we were all clamouring to see.

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