10 Horror Movie Villains You Didn't Realise Actually Won
3. The Bears - Cocaine Bear
Granted, Cocaine Bear walks a fine tonal line where the titular coke-huffing bear isn't so much villainised as presented as an unexpected force of nature.
After all, can you really blame the bear for hoovering up a ton of nose powder which was unceremoniously dropped onto its turf?
All the same, the bear does threaten the lives of most all the movie's human characters, and while the "good ones" largely manage to escape in one piece, the ending leaves things hugely up in the air.
While in real life the bear quickly died of an overdose, the film diverges from history - as it has for its entirety, in fairness - by having the bear and her cubs live to maul another day.
The final scene implies that the bears are about to pounce on a tourist trekking through the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. And on a wider level, this suggests that anyone going for a hike or camp in the area is likely to find themselves killed and devoured by a trio of coke-addicted bears.
Given the film's decent success at the box office, it's honestly surprising that a sequel hasn't yet been greenlit. Cocaine Bears, surely?