LuvablePsycho
07-30-2018, 06:45 PM
I know everybody likes the monsters and bad guys in horror movies, but what about the human characters who end up facing off against the monsters and surviving in the end? List your favorite examples here:
My list
Sarah from the original Day of the Dead. I really liked her as a leading female character because she was a tough girl who could use a gun but instead of being a soldier like the rest of the characters she was actually a scientist. She was like an example of ordinary women being forced to be strong and fight during times of chaos and hardship. But she also had a vulnerable side to her because the tension in the facility was growing more by the hour and nobody was willing to listen to her when she insisted that they should all be working together. Towards the end of the movie with the soldiers turning on the scientists it had all gotten too much for her.
Barbara from the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. Like Sarah she was an example of an ordinary woman having to struggle to fight and survive in a bad situation where the protection and support of society is not there. She started off exactly like her character from the original movie with the screaming and the panicking but once she killed a zombie on her own and Ben pointed out to her that she needed to start fighting to stay alive she started to wise up quickly. In fact it was interesting how she ended up being the only one to survive in the end because unlike the other characters who were panicking and bickering among themselves she was actually studying the zombies behavior and figured out their weaknesses (slow movement, shooting the head, etc).
My list
Sarah from the original Day of the Dead. I really liked her as a leading female character because she was a tough girl who could use a gun but instead of being a soldier like the rest of the characters she was actually a scientist. She was like an example of ordinary women being forced to be strong and fight during times of chaos and hardship. But she also had a vulnerable side to her because the tension in the facility was growing more by the hour and nobody was willing to listen to her when she insisted that they should all be working together. Towards the end of the movie with the soldiers turning on the scientists it had all gotten too much for her.
Barbara from the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead. Like Sarah she was an example of an ordinary woman having to struggle to fight and survive in a bad situation where the protection and support of society is not there. She started off exactly like her character from the original movie with the screaming and the panicking but once she killed a zombie on her own and Ben pointed out to her that she needed to start fighting to stay alive she started to wise up quickly. In fact it was interesting how she ended up being the only one to survive in the end because unlike the other characters who were panicking and bickering among themselves she was actually studying the zombies behavior and figured out their weaknesses (slow movement, shooting the head, etc).