Benton Tarantella

Benton Tarentella is a minor villain from Courage the cowardly dog, he is a zombie film director.

He first appears in "Everyone Wants to Direct," where he arrived at the Bagge farm claiming he wanted to film there. Courage grew suspicious of him and checked his computer to see if he really was a director. Courage learned that he was a former serial killer who, with help from his partner Errol, posed as an amateur filmmaker wanting to direcct in his victims homes. After they let the two in, they would kill them. The two killed a dozen people before they were arrested. Errol was released from prison for good behavior, but Benton died in prison. Errol himself died of unknown causes sometime later, and was burried in a cemetary that the farm was built over. But now Benton has somehow come back to life as a zombie (how is never revealed) and come to the farm. He plans to bring Errol back to life so they could continue their killing spree, starting with the owners of the farm. Benton would get Eustace to dig a pit leading to Errol's grave and wait for the planets to align and shine light into Errol's grave. Then after Errol came back they would eat Muriel (who thought she was playing a human victim and had no idea the whole thing was real) and then move onto Eustace and Courage. When Courage arrives to warn everyone, Benton locks him in a trunk. Courage then manages to rewrite the script so that Benton lets him out and he and Errol go back into the pit.

Benton later appears without Errol in "Angry Nasty People," where he was planning to make a show about people being mean to each other. He comes across the Bagges and asks them to be in the show because of Eustace's mean ways. He eventually makes the show entirely about Eustace and an even meaner clone of him named Mr. Nasty, who insults and humiliates Courage and Muriel. Benton and Mr. Nasty are defeated when Courage pretends to be meaner than Mr. Nasty so Benton will fire him and make Courage the new star. After Mr. Nasty leaves, Courage knocks Benton into quicksand to sink.