10 Movie Villains Who Totally Got Away With It

The 1988 Danish thriller The Vanishing boasts one of the most unapologetically bleak - and brilliant - endings to any film of its kind.

After poor Rex (Gene Bervoets) spends the entirety of the movie searching for his girlfriend Saskia (Johanna ter Steege), who went missing from a service station three years prior, at film's end he finally comes face to face with the man responsible for her disappearance.

That man is Raymond (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu), a sociopath who kidnapped Saskia simply to prove to himself that he was capable of committing such a heinous act.

Ultimately Raymond agrees to show Rex what happened to Saskia, but only if he'll go through the same experience by first drinking a drugged cop of coffee.

Rex, racked by morbid curiosity and guilt, downs the coffee, only to wake up in a box buried underground with no possibility of escape.

To rub salt in the wound, the film's final scene shows Raymond enjoying life with his wife and children, with no chance whatsoever that he will ever be connected to Saskia and Rex's disappearances.

Sadly the 1993 Hollywood remake, also helmed by George Sluizer, betrayed this ending by having Rex substitute Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) escape from the coffin and kill Raymond's American equivalent, Barney (Jeff Bridges). Boo.