Barbra
Background
Barbra is a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her brother is Johnny.
During the events of Night of the Living Dead (1968) played by Judith O'Dea
Barbra and Johnny are driving to the cemetery to lay flowers on the grave of their father. As they park an announcer on the radio mentions technical problems. They go to their father's grave site and place a cross with flowers in the ground. Johnny sees Cemetery Zombie slowly walking towards them and then recalls a time when he scared Barbra at the cemetery when they were children. He realizes she is uneasy in the cemetery and starts trying to scare her. As the Cemetery Zombie gets close to Barbra it attacks her. Johnny runs over to help Barbra, but is knocked to the ground and killed when his head hits the corner of a headstone. The Cemetery Zombie chases after Barbra and she runs to the car, but doesn't have the car keys. The Cemetery Zombie breaks the car window and Barbra releases the emergency break and coasts down the road until she hits a tree. She gets out of the car and runs to an old farm house. She goes inside and locks the door and walks through the house and takes a knife from the kitchen. She sees the Cemetery Zombie circling the house and tries to use the phone, but the line is dead. Barbra starts to walk up the stairs to the second floor, but runs back down again when she sees a dead body. She runs outside and headlights flash onto her.
Ben gets out of the car and they both go back into the house. He asks Barbra if she has a key for the gas pump outside, but she doesn't answer. He goes to look for food and Barbra asks him what is happening. They hear a noise of shattering glass and see Zombies trying to destroy Ben's truck. Ben goes outside and kills the Zombies attacking his vehicle. One Zombie gets inside the house and Ben kills that one also. More start to walk towards the house and Ben drags the Zombie from inside the house and sets it on fire outside. Ben tells Barbra to gather some wood so they can board up the house, but she is initially too much in shock to be effective. She eventually helps Ben and they start boarding up the house. He tells her about how he came across the truck he was driving and how he first saw the Zombies chasing a fuel truck and how he learned that the Zombies were afraid of fire. Barbra then tells him about her encounter with the Zombies. She starts saying that they need to go and find Johnny and when Ben tries to stop her she slaps him and he hits her back and she faints. After a few minutes, Ben tells Barbra about the gun and tries to boost her morale, but she stares blankly at the ground. While Ben is upstairs, the basement door opens and Harry and Tom come out. Barbra screams and Ben runs back downstairs. She sits catatonic until Zombies break open the door and start to grab at Helen. Barbra runs over with a piece of wood and tries to help Helen who then runs to the basement. Karen, who is now a Zombie attacks and kills Helen with a trowel. Johnny, who is now a Zombie, breaks into the house and grabs Barbra and brings her out of the house where she is killed.
