10 Alternate Endings To 2018 Movies You Almost Saw

4. A Quiet Place

The Ending We Got

After John Krasinski's heroic sacrifice at the end of A Quiet Place to save his family, his kids Regan and Marcus are reunited with their infant sibling Baby and mother. Regan realises that the sound made by her hearing aid torments the monster and amplifies it to distress the creature, which allows her mother to shoot the monster in the soft, unarmoured flesh of its neck.

Ultimately, two more monsters are seen approaching, but it's an ending filled with hope as the family know the secret of taking the monsters down and are prepared to fight back.

The Ending We Almost Saw

John Krasinski has revealed that the ending owed a lot more to traditional horror and wouldn't have had that note of hope, but that he was convinced to change his plans by a producer:

He said, 'Emily needs to shoot the monster.' And I remember thinking, that's insane. I was so against it. And bizarrely, I was driving to work the next day and was listening to an old podcast, an interview with Steven Spielberg from the early '80s, and someone said: 'Why is your generation of directors moving away from making art?' And he said, 'Why can't we make art films that you can also eat popcorn to? I'm not going to shy away from making people enjoy really exciting movie moments, too.' And I thought, 'Oh my God!' That was my wake-up moment to this idea that shooting the creature at the end wasn't abusing my artistic take.

See, Steven Spielberg is a genius even when he's not making the film.