1. Zombies
You cannot beat zombies as the ultimate Resident Evil monster. Shuffling towards you, groaning, with a mouthful of acidic vomit or aiming their teeth at your neck, they still, despite all of the attempts to replace them with 'sexier' monsters, strike dread into your heart when you play Resident Evil 1- Code Veronica. They may not be fleet of foot like Nemesis but their shambolic stumbling makes them paradoxically even scarier. The common zombie has a habit of terrifying the player in unexpected situations. No matter how much you play the games, there is always some zombie lying there, pretending to be dead, that suddenly startles you by eating your ankle. Luckily you get the satisfaction of squashing their heads. Zombies in Resident Evil have been known to take a flying leap across a room in order to chow on your guts. Once you get rid of the snigger factor that they have no genitalia - naked zombies signify the near end of the game. They are harder to kill and more vicious than be-clothed zombies, and they are often re-spawning. The best way to get rid of the zombie is a shot through the head. The heavy duty weaponry, such as a Magnum, produces pleasingly vivid scenes of zombies' heads being blown up as if they were mere watermelons. The Resident Evil remake on the Game Cube upped the ante in the scary zombies stakes by having zombies that just don't die unless you burn their bodies. This adds considerable menace to the game - the special zombies, if they are not burned, will return as a kind of Super Zombie. This will slightly ruin your day - if you are a wimp like me. Other players will relish blowing them away. The humble zombie remains the ultimate Resident Evil baddie. The part at the start of the original Resident Evil game where Jill/Chris and Barry investigate what's going on in the corridor outside the dining room and they hear munching and a zombie looks up slowly to the camera is iconic and shows the Resident Evil zombie in all its supreme scariness.