12 Alternative Horror Movie Endings You Didn't See

12. Ash Sleeps Too Long - Army Of Darkness (1993)

Ash Williams is having a sh*tty day. A romantic weekend away in a cosy log cabin turned into a frenetic skirmish with the demonic 'Deadites.' Worse still, he's somehow been transported to medieval somewhere by the time of the third Evil Dead movie, Army of Darkness.

Yes, the alternative ending here is hardly a secret anymore but it's just too damn good to leave off this list.

Now, which ending is considered canonical and which is the alternative? Well, that depends on which side of The Pond you're from.

In the UK, we got the ending which the Americans consider to be the alternate one. Here Ash, the cowardly but tenacious numb-nuts, is victorious in the battle against the Deadites but is still lost 600 years in the past.

Given the opportunity to return home, he drinks one too many drops of a sleeping potion and consequently wakes up in a post-apocalyptic nightmare, replete with famous trashed landmarks, Roland Emmerich style.

On release, this of course left UK fans brimming on the possibility of a fourth movie, which would disappointingly never be made, at least not in the way we thought.

The US ending, however, transports Ash safely back to the S-Mart department store, still trying to impress the girls. Raimi decides to remind us that despite all the sword and sandal malarky, this is still Evil Dead territory. Cue Deadite, cue shotgun, cue the best one-liners since Arnie's 80s hey day - "The name's Ash, housewares." Genius.