Day of the Dead

"Day of the Dead" (1985)

George A. Romero's first three "Dead" movies set a new standard for onscreen gore and zombie mayhem, and perhaps the high point comes in the third film with the death of psychotic military man Captain Rhodes (Joseph Pilato). His comeuppance is ... morespectacular: he's torn in two by a ravenous horde of decaying, reanimated corpses, the upper and lower halves of his body pulled slowly and painfully apart as he watches. His final words alone (Choke on it!") are almost worth the agony of seeing a man pulled apart like a well-cooked piece of chicken.

(Everett Collection)