The top five humans in zombie films

5. Trash - The Return Of The Living Dead

WHO IS SHE?
Trash is the red-haired post-punk scream queen, who spends most of the runtime of Dan O’ Bannon’s zombie opus Return Of The Living Dead running about completely naked . If there was an Oscar for ‘Best Gratuitous Nudity Scene,’ this film would have won every year since 1985.

WHAT MAKES HER COOL?
Aside from her truly ironic death scene (after telling her mate that the worst way for her to die would be “for a bunch of old men to get around me, and start biting and eating me alive.” well, see if you can guess what happens...) Trash is a post-punk pin-up, played by schlock goddess Linnea Quigley, and her every movement is soundtracked by bands like the Cramps. The question isn’t what makes her cool – it’s: ‘Is there anything about her that isn’t cool?’

WHAT MAKES HIM COOL?
Don’t get us wrong, he’s not the nicest bloke in the world – the line ‘I promised them women’ would send a shiver down even the most decomposed spine – but if the sight of military maniac barking orders at a chained-up deadhead isn’t cool, we don’t know what is. He’s essentially the Brit Colonel Kurtz and our equivalent of the military nutters in Day Of The Dead. So, ace then.

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