10 Great Horror Movies Where The World Literally Ends

10. Army of Darkness

The original international release of Evil Dead threequel Army of Darkness had a much bleaker ending than the cheesier, sunnier one shot for U.S. audiences.

In both versions, Ash (Bruce Campbell) consumes a potion that allows him to return to the present, but in the international cut, the final punchline is that Ash miscalculated the amount of potion he had to consume, drinking seven drops instead of six, causing him to oversleep by centuries. And so, when a raggedly, bearded Ash finally awakens, he's in a future post-apocalyptic London where humanity appears to have been wiped out entirely, and he can only lament that he overslept.

Unsurprisingly, this ending was loathed by the studio, who persuaded director Sam Raimi to shoot a more conventionally satisfying climax for the U.S. market. All the same, it provided one hell of a cliffhanger setup for a fourth movie which, of course, sadly never came to pass.