10 Movie Characters Who Died In The Final Shot

10. Paul Conroy - Buried

Rodrigo Cortés' Buried is a nerve-shredding exercise in suspense, as American truck driver Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds) wakes up buried alive in a coffin in Iraq, and attempts to use his phone to affect his escape.

Throughout the film Paul is in contact with Dan Brenner (Robert Paterson), head of the Hostage Working Group, who is attempting to find his location and rescue him.

Mid-way through the movie Brenner informs Paul that they saved a man called Mark White from a similar situation several weeks prior, but at film's end when the rescue operation unfolds, the team finds the burial site of White himself - who Brenner evidently lied about saving - not Paul.

And so, in the film's final scene, Paul realises he isn't going to be saved as sand begins unstoppably pouring into the coffin.

He's helpless to do anything but wait to asphyxiate on the sand filling every space of the wooden box, and just as Paul starts suffocating, we cut to black, with the final sound being Conroy telling Paul, "I'm sorry, Paul. I'm so sorry."

Considering it seemed highly likely that Paul would be rescued by film's end, this was quite the hefty gut-punch indeed.