Least Likely Horror-Movie Survivors
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Least Likely Horror-Movie Survivors

They're dead meat, right? Not so fast. How would you rank these scrappy anti-heroes?

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1 Ash (Bruce Campbell), The Evil Dead
Chalk it up to the charisma of Bruce Campbell, because there's no way Ash should survive the shock in this pic's final scene. 167 275
2 Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Zombieland
This endearingly maladroit kid is exactly who you wouldn't want around after the zombie apocalypse. 121 279
3 Ben (Duane Jones), Night of the Living Dead
As LL Cool J so eloquently says in Deep Blue Sea, "Brothers never make it out of situations like this!" And he's right. 72 206
4 Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
This skinny little slip of a thing does nothing but run and scream. She can't even kill Grandpa, and he's virtually dead already. 57 205
5 Billy Peltzer (Zach Galligan), Gremlins
If this doofus had any common sense, there wouldn't even been any gremlins and none of his neighbors would be dead. 38 216
6 Doug Wood (Martin Speer), The Hills Have Eyes
Nerdy electronics salesman Doug looks like feral-family fodder of the first order. He's got "dead guy" written all over him. 17 195
7 Paxton (Jay Hernandez), Hostel
Not only is Paxton not the nicest of his stoner-slacker crew, but he's hands down the one who deserves to die first. -17 191
8 Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing), The Curse of Frankenstein
In Hammer's reboot, the icy doctor proves way more compelling than his bandage-wrapped creature, to everyone's surprise. -30 164
9 John Kramer (Tobin Bell), Saw
Kramer, a.k.a. Jigsaw, is dying -- it's a major plot point. But wouldn't you know, the movie was a monster hit, and so he lives on. -30 208
10 Dr. Markway (Richard Johnson), The Haunting
In most horror movies, this type of guy sacrifices others to save his skin and then gets what's coming to him. Not here. -59 157