This one could easily go here on this site or on our sister site zombies.org. It concerns a guy who attacked and murdered a Florida couple, then proceeded to start eating the male victim’s face off. The killer was supposedly out of his gourd on the synthetic drug Flakka or something similar, and was a drooling, grunting brute against whom police tazers were wholly ineffective. See, you could call him either a zombie or a werewolf. He isn’t either, if we are going by the dictionary definitions, but his behavior was imitative of both. Most frightening of all, he seems to have come upon his victims solely by chance. A human beast wandering around at night, possessed of an insensate desire to kill (and feed), and attacking people at random; that’s as scary a premise as you’ll ever find in any Horror movie or novel.
The killer, 19-year-old Dustin Harrouff, a high school athlete turned student at Florida State University, is reportedly suffering from liver damage. Police suspect he “ingested caustic chemicals” while in the process of committing the double homicide. At the risk of a bad joke, one wonders if he decided to wash down his meal of human face with a chaser of gasoline or bleach or paint thinner. He also almost severed his own thumb during the attack. Such self-inflicted injuries aren’t typical of monster movie attacks, no, but are a testament to how consumed the suspect was with his attack, so much so that he had no more regard for his own well-being than with that of his victims. Scary stuff.