The darker original endings of popular horror films -

What´s more scary than a horror movie? Horror movies with alternate endings. Warning: Spoilers ahead!

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'Hostel' (2005) -

A group of friends are kidnapped and imprisoned in a room where various men take turns torturing them. In the end, one of the friends (named Paxton) escapes, hunts down the kidnapper, and kills him.

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In the original ending, Paxton would find the kidnapper with his young daughter. Instead of killing him, he would kidnap the daughter and torture her.

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'Alien' saga - The famous heroine, Ellen Ripley, was not supposed to survive the first movie in the saga.

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'Alien' saga - She was originally meant to die after getting torn apart by an alien.

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'The Descent' (2005) -

The movie—about a group of female spelunkers who get stuck in a cave and are systematically killed by blood-thirsty cave dwellers—ends with one of the women escaping.

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'The Descent' (2005) - The original ending, that actually made its way into the international version, involved the last remaining survivor waking up in the cave alone thinking she had survived. When the camera pans out, viewers see her surrounded by the creatures.

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'Get Out' (2017) - One of the most intense movies of the year and Oscar Award for Best Picture nominee 'Get Out' ends with Chris escaping the house he is being imprisoned in. In a desperate attempt to break free he strangles his girlfriend just as his buddy pulls up in a cop car.

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'Get Out' (2017) - In the original ending, a real police officer was supposed to show up, arrest Chris, and lock him in jail, where he is unable to convince anyone of what really happened.

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'Evil Dead' (2013) - In this gory horror movie, the protagonist must literally kill the demonic version of herself to survive.

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'Evil Dead' (2013) -

The alternate ending involves her being rescued by a man, only to wake up in the back of his truck still possessed.

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'Leatherface' (2017) -

In the prequel to 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,' the movie ends with Leatherface catching a woman and killing her.

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'Leatherface' (2017) -

The alternate ending involves a much gorier scene, in which he hangs the woman on a hook and slices off her jaw while she's still alive.

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'Godsend' (2004) -

When a couple loses their eight-year-old son, a scientist offers to clone him. The clone starts having night terrors about the original version of himself that end up becoming reality. The movie ends with him shown in a possessed state.

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'Godsend' (2004) -

There were seven endings considered for the movie. One of the alternative endings involved him killing his parents and the scientists.

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'The Blair Witch Project' (1999) - The actual ending is already pretty depressing: everyone dies. Audiences are left wondering what exactly happened and whether or not they were killed by the witch.

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'The Blair Witch Project' (1999) - Alternative endings didn't stray too far from the actual one used, but just involved more details and alternative ways in which the characters die.

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'Paranormal Activity' saga - The movies apparently had dozens of alternative endings. 

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'Paranormal Activity' saga -

Many endings involved a possessed Katie killing herself or getting killed by someone else, but writers decided that killing her would prevent them from being able to make sequels. 

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'The Butterfly Effect' (2004) - The movie follows Evan (Ashton Kutcher) as he rewrites his own life story over and over.

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'The Butterfly Effect' (2004) - Four endings were shot initially, with one of the darkest being Evan returning back to the womb and strangling himself.

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'1408' (2007) - John Cusack plays Mike Enslin, who loses his daughter and copes with his grief by traveling to allegedly haunted hotel rooms to prove they're hoaxes. At one point, he comes face to face with a terrifying spirit and sets the hotel room on fire to escape. He ends up surviving.

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'1408' (2007) -

In the original ending, he was supposed to die in the fire and come back as a ghost.

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'World War Z' (2013) - In the ending most people see, Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) makes it to the World Health Organization to develop a substance that allows humans to be invisible to zombies. It ends with him rejoining his family.

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'World War Z' (2013) - An alternative ending involves him discovering that the cold can kill zombies, and then learning that his wife is living in Florida after trading her body to a soldier in exchange for survival.

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'Happy Death Day' (2017) -

A woman is forced to continue reliving the day in which she is murdered until she can solve the murder and stay alive.

The original ending involved her solving the murder and thinking she had survived—only to be killed one last time before the credits start rolling.

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'You're Next' (2011) - Also known as the horror version of 'Home Alone,' this movie ends with the main character, Erin, killing a group of masked assassins. 

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'You're Next' (2011) -

The original ending was supposed to involve a police officer showing up, barging into the house, and shooting Erin in the head before she could say anything.

See also: 30 of the greatest horror movies of all time

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