10 Great Movies Almost Ruined By Their Alternate Endings

10. Alien

The Ending You Know: They clearly don't have horror movies in the future. The Nostromo may be destroyed and Ripley escaped in its shuttle, but as she relaxes nothing can shake that niggling sense that something isn't quite right. And just then the xenomorph pops up, providing one final menacing confrontation before it's thrown out of the airlock and incinerated in the ship's engines. Finally free, Ripley leaves a little message, sets her course for Earth and enters a long hibernation. The Ending We Almost Got: Instead of Ripley managing to expunge the alien, in an alternate ending it gets the better of her, biting her head off and, mimicking her voice, leaves that same message from the proper version, ready to unleash itself on humanity. There goes our salvage guys. Why It Would Ruin The Film: It's just flat out ridiculous and would destroy the tension Ridley Scott has been expertly building up for the past two hours. The xenomorph talking is a previously unmentioned ability that ruins its horror more than any obvious man-in-suit could. It's always tempting to do a shockingly downbeat ending, but this one would just come across as silly, not to mention meaning we'd never get Aliens.