Who are your favorite 'survivors' in horror movies?
 

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).

I like the twist with Barbara as well in the remake.

Yeah, wasn't it awesome? ::cool::

I also think I liked Wendy from The Shining. She really wasn't a tough gal at all and she seemed like a mousy doormat, but I admired her for protecting her son after her husband had gone crazy and was trying to kill them both.

Favorite survivors? Lots! Let's see...

Ripley in Alien.

Laurie in Halloween.

Hicks, Newt and Ripley in Aliens.

Frodo and Sam in Lord of the Rings.

Larry Talbot in The Wolf Man... oh, ya, that's right, he didn't survive.

Ash in Evil Dead 2.

I also liked Fredrik Loren (played by Vincent Price) from House on Haunted Hill. He managed to out-sociopath his wife. ::big grin::

Yes, good one! I second that.

Come to think of it, that's one of the things I liked about House on Haunted Hill, that both Fredrik and his wife were both likeable and obviously much too poorly restrained, and yet again were still restrained enough to be civil to each other in a very familiar way. That's some character depth that works for a film.

Yeah, like you could tell they both really hated each other and wanted to get rid of each other and yet they were both so calm about it. Even using words like "darling".

And the actress who played his wife Annabell was gorgeous wasn't she? ::smile::

Yes she was. And between the two of them, you could also almost imagine they both wanted to work it out, but they didn't trust each other.

Alice from ANOES 4 & 5
Andy Barkley
Danny Torrence
Tommy Jarvis
The 2 guys in the ice cream truck in Killer Klownz

Yuck! Those guys were the ones who had sex with the freaky-looking alien clown girls. ::stick out tongue::