# Most horrifying movie finale you have ever seen

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The original version of **[The Vanishing](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096163/)** from 1988. I _so_ did not expect the ending, but understood the inevitability of it.

Evidently the American remake gave it a brand new ending which ruined it.

(This isn’t the movie about the lighthouse keepers)

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