| "When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth."
This article is related to the films created by George A. Romero. |
| “ | They're coming to get you, Barbara! | „ |
| ~ Johnny most infamous qoute. |
Johnny was the brother of Barbara during the early stages of the outbreak.
He serves as a minor character turned antagonist in Night of the Living Dead.
Biography[]
Night of the Living Dead[]
In 1968, Johnny and his sister Barbra drive to a cemetery in Pittsburgh to visit their deceased father's grave, which Johnny complains about. During the visit, Johnny recalls that he used to scare Barbra in the cemetery. He then begins teasing her again, chanting, "They're coming to get you, Barbra." When he sees a strange man walking through the cemetery, he makes cruel jokes about how the man is going to come after her, not realizing that something is wrong with the man.
Annoyed, Barbra walks up to the stranger to apologize for her brother's juvenile behavior, but the stranger attacks her. Johnny rushes to help and fights with the stranger, but he is thrown down, fatally hitting his head on a tombstone. Barbra is forced to run to protect herself from the stranger who continues to pursue her, leaving Johnny behind.
Johnny later appears at the climax of the movie when it is revealed that he died from his injures and became a ghoul. He is part of the group of flesh-eating ghouls that attack the farmhouse where his sister has been hiding since running from the cemetery.
When the ghouls finally break into the house, an undead Johnny attacks his sister through the front door. Barbra, stunned at the sight of her reanimated brother, lowers her defenses long enough for Johnny to carry her out into the horde where she is presumably devoured off-screen.
Night of the Living Dead (1990 Remake)[]
In 1990 remake, Johnny is once again Barbara's brother and at the beginning of the film, the two visit their deceased father's grave. There he begins to tease her when a strange man approaches her from behind in catatonic state, muttering apology again and again. Perplexed, Johnny attempts to talk to the man only to receive no response from him. When he asks Barbara's opinions about it, he is suddenly pushed aside by a ghoul who proceeds to attack her. In the ensuing struggle, Johnny wrestles with the ghoul only for the latter slammed his head against a nearby tombstone, knocking him unconscious thus forcing Barbara to flee.
As with in the original movie, Johnny finally reanimated as one of ghouls, though he is soon put to rest by a group of countryside posse dispatched to clear up the area near the graveyard of the undead. As devastated as she is upon learning what befell her brother upon encountering the same posse, Barbara is nonetheless spared from doing the deed herself.
Personality[]
Trivia[]
- Johnny was apparently killed by blunt force trauma. However, his body should have been unable to turn from this cause of death, as it would have fatally damaged the brain; this was shown in Dawn of the Dead, when Stephen killed a zombie via blunt force trauma. It is possible that the blow simply knocked Johnny unconscious, and he later died of another cause.
Gallery[]
