12 Sci-Fi Movie Endings That Were Almost Completely Different

12. The Little Shop Of Horrors - Audrey Was Almost Fed To Audrey II

Yes, by now most of you may know that Muppets performer Frank Oz’s big budget 1986 musical version of Little Shop of Horrors was forced to jettison an incredibly ambitious and expensive original ending wherein most of New York was destroyed by the nefarious sentient plants central to the flick’s plot. The sequence was fully finished before test audiences abhorred it, and as such a significant chunk of the film’s sizeable budget was wasted once it was scrapped.

What you may not know is that this wasn’t the first brush the franchise had with darker denouements. Yes, the original 1960 comedy horror cheapie produced by trash cinema legend Roger Corman and featuring Jack Nicholson had its own ending revised too, cutting a brutal twist wherein the nebbish protagonist is forced to off his own love interest and feed her to the insatiable plant.

Guess it's true, history repeats itself first as an inexpensive indie production, then as a big budget remake that repeats the same mistakes...