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* AlasPoorVillain: Despite being mainly an asshole victim, it's still possible to feel sorry for Cooper after Ben shoots him for trying to take the gun. His last scene before his death is him going to his daughter and collapsing in front of her.
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** AllThereInTheManual: Her family name is Blair according to the script, also making it an example of an AlliterativeName.
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** AllThereInTheManual: Her family name is Blair according to the script, also making it an example of an AlliterativeName.
* SenselessSacrifice: Manages to save Helen Cooper from the zombies, only to be killed by her own zombified brother and several others. Not to mention, Helen gets stabbed to death by ''her'' zombified daughter not five minutes after the fact when she flees to the basement, making it even more pointless.
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** At the end of the original, Barbra saves Mrs. Cooper from the Zombies that grabbed at her. At the cost of her own life. [[SenselessSacrifice Makes it all the more tragic/horrific when it amounts to nothing moments later]].
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* OnlySaneMan: He's noticeably more level-headed than the other survivors (especially in the 1968 original).
* TragicMistake: Ben, our hero, believes that they must defend the house from the zombies. Harry Cooper, our unsympathetic antagonist, insists that they should flee to the basement and barricade the basement door. Ben wins the argument, but Cooper was right. Ben's plan to defend the house leads to disaster, and after everyone else is killed he does in fact flee to the basement, where he survives the zombies.
* TragicMistake: Ben, our hero, believes that they must defend the house from the zombies. Harry Cooper, our unsympathetic antagonist, insists that they should flee to the basement and barricade the basement door. Ben wins the argument, but Cooper was right. Ben's plan to defend the house leads to disaster, and after everyone else is killed he does in fact flee to the basement, where he survives the zombies.
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* KarmicDeath: [[WordOfGod According to Romero]], Ben's [[BoomHeadshot fate]] at the hands of the rednecks was this [[DownplayedTrope to an extent]]. He believed that boarding up the cellar would be a death sentence and refused to heed Cooper's suggestion (he even ends up killing the latter near the end). It's only after everyone else has died or been zombified that he ultimately flees downstairs and even then, it's more out of the last ditch effort in order to save himself. In the morning, when the hunters come by the house to kill the straggling ghouls, they kill him stone cold and burn his corpes along with the others. [[DownerEnding No one ever finds out who he was or what he went through to survive the night]].
* OnlySaneMan: He's noticeably more level-headed than the other survivors (especially in the 1968original).
original). That said, his plan to defend the upper areas of the house ultimately fails and it's ultimately [[JerkAss Cooper]] that proves to be the better fit for this trope.
* ProtectThisHouse: Was determined to do this with the farmhouse, only for everyone besides himself to be killed due to their nearsightedness or disobedience with his plans. The zombies soon bust in and he has to flee down to the basement (which he earlier called a deathtrap).
* TragicMistake: Ben, our hero, believes that they must defend the house from the zombies. Harry Cooper, our unsympathetic antagonist, insists that they should flee to the basement and barricade the basement door. Ben wins the argument, but Cooper was right. Ben's plan to defend the house leads to disaster, and after everyone else is killed hedoes does, in fact fact, flee to the basement, where he survives the zombies.
* OnlySaneMan: He's noticeably more level-headed than the other survivors (especially in the 1968
* ProtectThisHouse: Was determined to do this with the farmhouse, only for everyone besides himself to be killed due to their nearsightedness or disobedience with his plans. The zombies soon bust in and he has to flee down to the basement (which he earlier called a deathtrap).
* TragicMistake: Ben, our hero, believes that they must defend the house from the zombies. Harry Cooper, our unsympathetic antagonist, insists that they should flee to the basement and barricade the basement door. Ben wins the argument, but Cooper was right. Ben's plan to defend the house leads to disaster, and after everyone else is killed he
* BaldOfEvil: More Jerkass than full-blown evil, but still.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: His interactions with his wife show shades of this in the '68 original, though it's not explored very thoroughly.
* OnlySaneMan: While Ben is arguably the most level-headed, Cooper's insistence on the cellar being the only safe place was proven correct once the undead started to attack in earnest.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: While Cooper was an unlikable asshole in the original, he was still willing to help the others out after some grumbling, even if his fear and anger got the better of him towards the end, and he came across more as a scared, angry man out of his wits with fear and confusion. In the remake he is an utterly loathsome and useless slimeball.
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* ProperlyParanoid: His grumpy and abrasive personality aside, he is proved correct in that Ben's plan to board up the upper areas of the house and successfully protect the house was a folly.
* TookALevelInJerkass: While Cooper was an unlikable asshole in the original, he was still willing to help the others out after some grumbling, even if his fear and anger got the better of him towards the end, and he came across more as a scared, angry man out of his wits with fear and confusion. In theremake remake, he is an utterly loathsome and useless slimeball.
* TookALevelInJerkass: While Cooper was an unlikable asshole in the original, he was still willing to help the others out after some grumbling, even if his fear and anger got the better of him towards the end, and he came across more as a scared, angry man out of his wits with fear and confusion. In the
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* AscendedExtra: In 3D version, she gets more screentime that than her other versions.
* AllThereInTheManual: His family name is Blair in the script, but never mentioned in the films themselves.
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* DirtyCoward: In 3D version, he left his sister in the cemetary and escapes.
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* CatchPhrase: "They're coming to get you, Barbara..." One could argue that this isn't Johnny's catch phrase, catchphrase, but rather that of the whole series; besides being one of the more quoted lines of the original, it's also the very first line in Savini's remake, and is even featured in the trailer for ''Land of the Dead''.
* DirtyCoward: In 3D version, he left his sister in thecemetary cemetery and escapes.
* DirtyCoward: In 3D version, he left his sister in the
* TheGadfly: Makes fun of his sister for being afraid in the cemetery and appears to be a bit of a jokester. It's not until Barbra gets attacked that he stops joking around.
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* {{Jerkass}}{{Jerkass}}: Complains a lot about having to make a three-hour trip just to visit his own father's grave and makes fun of his sister's discomfort to amuse himself. That said, the above tropes show [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he does care about her safety]], at least.
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* BadassBandolier: His IconicItem.
* CorruptHick: Comes across as the rural Pennsylvania equivalent of a typical redneck sheriff.
* DeadpanSnarker: Treats deadly zombies like they're just minor annoyances.
* RemakeCameo: Russell Streiner, Johnny in the original film, plays him in the Savini version.
* TheSheriff: Obviously views himself as a heroic one.
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-->'''Played by:''' George Kosana (1968), Russell Streiner (1990)
* BadassBandolier: His IconicItem.
* CorruptHick: Comes across as the rural Pennsylvania equivalent of a typical redneck sheriff.
* DeadpanSnarker: Treats deadly zombies like they're just minor annoyances.
* RemakeCameo: Russell Streiner, Johnny in the original film, plays him in the Savini version.
* TheSheriff: Obviously views himself as a heroic one.
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-->'''Played by:''' Judith O'Dea (1968), Patricia Tallman (1990), Brianna Brown (2006)
-->'''Played by:''' Duane Jones (1968), Tony Todd (1990), Joshua [=DesRoses=] (2006)
-->'''Played by:''' Karl Hardman (1968), Tom Towles (1990), Greg Travis (2006)
-->'''Played by:''' Marilyn Eastman (1968), [=McKee=] Anderson (1990), Brianna Brown (2006)
-->'''Played by:''' Keith Wayne (1968), William Butler (1990), Max Williams (2006)
-->'''Played by:''' Judith Ridley (1968), Katie Finneran (1990), Cristin Michele (2006)
-->'''Played by:''' Kyra Schon (1968), Heather Mazur ("Sarah"--1990), Alynia Phillips (2006)
-->'''Played by:''' Russell Streiner (1968), Bill Moseley (1990), Ken Ward (2006)
-->'''Played by:''' Adam Chambers (2006)
-->'''Played by:''' Sid Haig (2006)
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* CanonForeigner: Similiar to Owen, he never exists in any previously NightOfLivingDead film until 3D.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: He ''does'' stop kidding around and tries to fight off the zombie when it attacks Barbra.
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* {{AdaptationalHeroism}}: in the 3D version, instead of being a jerk, he becomes a helpful person and Ben's friend.
* {{AssholeVictim}}: In original and Savini version. Cooper is demanding and confrontational at best and a treacherous coward at worst.
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* {{AdaptationalHeroism}}: AdaptationalHeroism: in the 3D version, instead of being a jerk, he becomes a helpful person and Ben's friend.
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* DumbBlonde: She turns into this in the 3D version. She also wasn't ''that'' smart on the original, [[spoiler:she dies and takes Tom along with her because she got her jacket caught on the car door and didn't try to open it first.]]
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* ActionGirl: In both the Savini and 3D versions.
%%* AdaptationalBadass
* DecoyProtagonist: The original film opens up from her perspective--driving to the cemetery with Johnny, being attacked and separated, fleeing and finding the house. Then Ben shows up and she turns into TheLoad.
* DistressedDamsel: In the original. While she does succeed in running away from most of the zombies, when things calm down she goes slightly catatonic.
* DumbBlonde: Barbra also spends most of her time in the first film being catatonic and hysterical. But it's averted in other versions.
* FinalGirl: In both Savini and 3D version.
* HeroicSacrifice: in the original, to save Helen.
* TheLoad: Only in the original. Barbra does very little to help anyone in the house and is even treated like an object when Ben and Cooper are arguing about the basement.
* OnlySaneWoman: In Savini and 3D version.
* RedHerring: In the original, Barbra is near-catatonic and then spacey. She feels warm, says so and takes her jacket off. She flinches at the fire when Mrs. Cooper lights her cigarette. Despite all this, she ''doesn't'' turn into a zombie before getting dragged out of the house.
%%* TheSmartGirl
* ScreamingWoman: In the original, screaming is about all Barbra really does aside from spacing out.
* SoleSurvivor: In the Savini version. Subverted in the 3D version; she's the last person left alive, but zombies are approaching and she doesn't have a weapon or any place to escape to.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** At the end of the original, Barbra saves Mrs. Cooper from the Zombies that grabbed at her. At the cost of her own life.
** In the remake, in pointed contrast with her original incarnation.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Ben in 3D version.
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[[folder: Ben]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Saving Barbra from zombies near the beginning of the film.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted in every film as he dies last in both original and Savini version. Ben is white in the 3D version.
* TragicMistake: Ben, our hero, believes that they must defend the house from the zombies. Harry Cooper, our unsympathetic antagonist, insists that they should flee to the basement and barricade the basement door. Ben wins the argument, but Cooper was right. Ben's plan to defend the house leads to disaster, and after everyone else is killed he does in fact flee to the basement, where he survives the zombies.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Barbara in 3D version.
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[[folder: Harry Cooper]]
* {{AdaptationalHeroism}}: in the 3D version, instead of being a jerk, he becomes a helpful person and Ben's friend.
* {{AssholeVictim}}: In original and Savini version. Cooper is demanding and confrontational at best and a treacherous coward at worst.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He actually cares for his wife and daughter.
* {{Jerkass}}: As he first seems to viewers.
* {{NiceGuy}}: In the 3D version.
* {{Papa Wolf}}: While Cooper is a jerk, he's motivated by trying to protect his injured daughter.
* TookALevelInJerkass: While Cooper was an unlikable asshole in the original, he was still willing to help the others out after some grumbling, even if his fear and anger got the better of him towards the end, and he came across more as a scared, angry man out of his wits with fear and confusion. In the remake he is an utterly loathsome and useless slimeball.
* TookALevelInKindness: In the 3D version Cooper is more of a friendly good-hearted farmer.
* UglyGuyHotWife: In all versions.
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[[folder: Helen Cooper]]
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: In the 3D version she kills herself instead of being zombie chow.
%%* BrainyBrunette
* DrivenToSuicide: In the 3D version.
* TeamMom: In the original and Savini versions.
* UglyGuyHotWife: In all versions.
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[[folder: Tom]]
* AssholeVictim: In the 3D version.
* BigGuy: In the Savini version.
* DeathBySex: In the 3D version
* OutOfFocus: In the 3D version, he doesn't have much screentime as previous versions.
* ThoseTwoGuys:
** Tom and Judy are pretty separated from the other characters and the story at large. They hardly interact with anyone else but each other, and the only thing very memorable about them is [[spoiler:their fiery explosive death and the sloppy zombie clean-up crew]].
** In 3D version it becomes worse. They don't share scene with any other cast members at all.
%%* TooDumbToLive
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[[folder: Judy Rose]]
* TheChick: In Savini version, Judy Rose takes over Barbra's original role as the ScreamingWoman instead of being calm and reasonable simply because she's a woman. However she reacts realistically to what's going on and becomes a little more proactive (going outside to get the gas pump keys, insisting that she drive the truck).
* DeathBySex: In the 3D version
* DumbBlonde: She turns into this in the 3D version.
* MsFanservice: In the 3D version.
* OutOfFocus: In 3D version she, like Tom, doesn't have as much screentime as in other versions.
* ScreamingWoman: In Savini version.
* ThoseTwoGuys:
** Tom and Judy are pretty separated from the other characters and the story at large. They hardly interact with anyone else but each other, and the only thing very memorable about them is [[spoiler:their fiery explosive death and the sloppy zombie clean-up crew]].
** In 3D version it becomes worse. They don't share scenes with any other cast members.
%%* TooDumbToLive
* TookALevelInBadass: Judy Rose was heading this way too in the Savini version. She spent most of the film as a ScreamingWoman before eventually getting a hold of herself, calling out Ben and Cooper for their stupid arguing and offering to drive the truck to the gas pump (as opposed to the original where she just wandered outside and had to come along).
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* AscendedExtra: In 3D version, she gets more screentime that her other versions.
* [[spoiler:SelfMadeOrphan: Zombie Karen eats her father, then kills and (presumably) eats her mother.]]
* [[spoiler:ZombieInfectee / UndeadChild]]
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* AssholeVictim
* BigBrotherBully
* DirtyCoward: In 3D version, he left his sister in the cemetary and escapes.
* DemotedToExtra: In Savini version, there wasn't any shot of him as Zombie.
* {{Jerkass}}
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* CanonForeigner: He only appeared in 3D version.
* {{Expy}}: Off Barbra from the original. He's helpless and lies on the couch for whole movie. Well he was bitten by zombies.
* TheLoad
* TheStoner
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* [[Spoiler: AssholeVictim]]
* BigBad: In 3D version.
* CanonForeigner: Similiar to Owen, he never exists in any previously NightOfLivingDead film until 3D.
* DoomedByCanon: If anyone watched the 3D prequel movie Re-Animation, they already know what's going happen to him in the 3D version.
* GenreBlindness
* TheOtherDarren: In Re-Animation, Sid Haig who played was replaced Sid Haig by Andrew Divoff
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* ActionGirl: In both the Savini and 3D versions.
%%* AdaptationalBadass
* DecoyProtagonist: The original film opens up from her perspective--driving to the cemetery with Johnny, being attacked and separated, fleeing and finding the house. Then Ben shows up and she turns into TheLoad.
* DistressedDamsel: In the original. While she does succeed in running away from most of the zombies, when things calm down she goes slightly catatonic.
* DumbBlonde: Barbra also spends most of her time in the first film being catatonic and hysterical. But it's averted in other versions.
* FinalGirl: In both Savini and 3D version.
* HeroicSacrifice: in the original, to save Helen.
* TheLoad: Only in the original. Barbra does very little to help anyone in the house and is even treated like an object when Ben and Cooper are arguing about the basement.
* OnlySaneWoman: In Savini and 3D version.
* RedHerring: In the original, Barbra is near-catatonic and then spacey. She feels warm, says so and takes her jacket off. She flinches at the fire when Mrs. Cooper lights her cigarette. Despite all this, she ''doesn't'' turn into a zombie before getting dragged out of the house.
%%* TheSmartGirl
* ScreamingWoman: In the original, screaming is about all Barbra really does aside from spacing out.
* SoleSurvivor: In the Savini version. Subverted in the 3D version; she's the last person left alive, but zombies are approaching and she doesn't have a weapon or any place to escape to.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** At the end of the original, Barbra saves Mrs. Cooper from the Zombies that grabbed at her. At the cost of her own life.
** In the remake, in pointed contrast with her original incarnation.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Ben in 3D version.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Saving Barbra from zombies near the beginning of the film.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted in every film as he dies last in both original and Savini version. Ben is white in the 3D version.
* TragicMistake: Ben, our hero, believes that they must defend the house from the zombies. Harry Cooper, our unsympathetic antagonist, insists that they should flee to the basement and barricade the basement door. Ben wins the argument, but Cooper was right. Ben's plan to defend the house leads to disaster, and after everyone else is killed he does in fact flee to the basement, where he survives the zombies.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Barbara in 3D version.
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* {{AdaptationalHeroism}}: in the 3D version, instead of being a jerk, he becomes a helpful person and Ben's friend.
* {{AssholeVictim}}: In original and Savini version. Cooper is demanding and confrontational at best and a treacherous coward at worst.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He actually cares for his wife and daughter.
* {{Jerkass}}: As he first seems to viewers.
* {{NiceGuy}}: In the 3D version.
* {{Papa Wolf}}: While Cooper is a jerk, he's motivated by trying to protect his injured daughter.
* TookALevelInJerkass: While Cooper was an unlikable asshole in the original, he was still willing to help the others out after some grumbling, even if his fear and anger got the better of him towards the end, and he came across more as a scared, angry man out of his wits with fear and confusion. In the remake he is an utterly loathsome and useless slimeball.
* TookALevelInKindness: In the 3D version Cooper is more of a friendly good-hearted farmer.
* UglyGuyHotWife: In all versions.
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[[folder: Helen Cooper]]
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: In the 3D version she kills herself instead of being zombie chow.
%%* BrainyBrunette
* DrivenToSuicide: In the 3D version.
* TeamMom: In the original and Savini versions.
* UglyGuyHotWife: In all versions.
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[[folder: Tom]]
* AssholeVictim: In the 3D version.
* BigGuy: In the Savini version.
* DeathBySex: In the 3D version
* OutOfFocus: In the 3D version, he doesn't have much screentime as previous versions.
* ThoseTwoGuys:
** Tom and Judy are pretty separated from the other characters and the story at large. They hardly interact with anyone else but each other, and the only thing very memorable about them is [[spoiler:their fiery explosive death and the sloppy zombie clean-up crew]].
** In 3D version it becomes worse. They don't share scene with any other cast members at all.
%%* TooDumbToLive
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[[folder: Judy Rose]]
* TheChick: In Savini version, Judy Rose takes over Barbra's original role as the ScreamingWoman instead of being calm and reasonable simply because she's a woman. However she reacts realistically to what's going on and becomes a little more proactive (going outside to get the gas pump keys, insisting that she drive the truck).
* DeathBySex: In the 3D version
* DumbBlonde: She turns into this in the 3D version.
* MsFanservice: In the 3D version.
* OutOfFocus: In 3D version she, like Tom, doesn't have as much screentime as in other versions.
* ScreamingWoman: In Savini version.
* ThoseTwoGuys:
** Tom and Judy are pretty separated from the other characters and the story at large. They hardly interact with anyone else but each other, and the only thing very memorable about them is [[spoiler:their fiery explosive death and the sloppy zombie clean-up crew]].
** In 3D version it becomes worse. They don't share scenes with any other cast members.
%%* TooDumbToLive
* TookALevelInBadass: Judy Rose was heading this way too in the Savini version. She spent most of the film as a ScreamingWoman before eventually getting a hold of herself, calling out Ben and Cooper for their stupid arguing and offering to drive the truck to the gas pump (as opposed to the original where she just wandered outside and had to come along).
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[[folder: Karen]]
* AscendedExtra: In 3D version, she gets more screentime that her other versions.
* [[spoiler:SelfMadeOrphan: Zombie Karen eats her father, then kills and (presumably) eats her mother.]]
* [[spoiler:ZombieInfectee / UndeadChild]]
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[[folder: Johnny]]
* AssholeVictim
* BigBrotherBully
* DirtyCoward: In 3D version, he left his sister in the cemetary and escapes.
* DemotedToExtra: In Savini version, there wasn't any shot of him as Zombie.
* {{Jerkass}}
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[[folder: Owen]]
* CanonForeigner: He only appeared in 3D version.
* {{Expy}}: Off Barbra from the original. He's helpless and lies on the couch for whole movie. Well he was bitten by zombies.
* TheLoad
* TheStoner
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[[folder: Gerald Tovar, Jr]]
* [[Spoiler: AssholeVictim]]
* BigBad: In 3D version.
* CanonForeigner: Similiar to Owen, he never exists in any previously NightOfLivingDead film until 3D.
* DoomedByCanon: If anyone watched the 3D prequel movie Re-Animation, they already know what's going happen to him in the 3D version.
* GenreBlindness
* TheOtherDarren: In Re-Animation, Sid Haig who played was replaced Sid Haig by Andrew Divoff
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