20 Most Satisfying Horror Movie Villain Deaths EVER
18. Carter Burke - Aliens
Few horror movie villains have had it coming to them more than Aliens' Carter Burke (Paul Reiser), for while not as viscerally monstrous as the xenomorphs, at least the aliens are merely acting on instinct, while Burke is motivated by nothing more than scum-tastic greed.
Burke is a rep for Weyland-Yutani who joins Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and the Colonial Marines on their mission to investigate the endangered colony of Hadley's Hope.
But Burke isn't sent there to rescue - he's hell-bent on recovering the xenomorph for his employer's weapons research, and even releases facehuggers to try and impregnate Ripley and young Newt (Carrie Henn) with xeno embryos.
His plan fails, though, just as xenomorphs attack the group and Burke is left to his own devices.
That is to say, he's absolutely helpless to avoid being mauled to death by one of the aliens, though in a moment of slightly frustrating restraint, James Cameron cuts away rather than letting us savour Burke's grisly demise.
And yet, it shows how much of a Hall of Fame-tier a**hole Burke was that his death is still so gratifying even though we hardly see it.