10 Horror Movie Deaths That Could've Been WAY Better
8. Carter Burke - Aliens
Weyland-Yutani rep Carter Burke (Paul Reiser) is one of the most detestable human villains in all of horror - nay, cinema - a conniving weasel with little care for the many people he gets killed in his quest to secure the Xenomorph eggs for profit.
He's a certifiable piece of s**t, and we as viewers therefore anticipate that we'll get to savour him suffering a horrible death by film's end. But that's sadly only half right.
Burke certainly gets his, but in a strange choice by filmmaker James Cameron, we're not allowed to witness it.
After unsuccessfully attempting to have Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Newt (Carrie Henn) impregnated by a pair of facehuggers, all hell breaks loose, leading to Burke being cornered by a Xenomorph, yet the scene shifts away just as the Xenomorph attacks him.
C'mon, this ain't No Country for Old Men - give the people what they want! That Cameron, typically a master of doing precisely that, got shy with Burke's death is such a massive disappointment.
However, it's worth mentioning that a deleted scene fleshes Burke's demise out a little, where Ripley later finds him cocooned in the Queen's hive and impregnated with a Xenomorph embryo. When he asks Ripley for help, she understandably hands him a grenade and moves on.
Cameron apparently cut this from the movie because he realised that the timeframe would be off - when Ripley encounters Burke, he should still have a facehugger attached to him per the gestation cycle established in the original Alien.
All the same, it's certainly a more satisfying end for Burke than the totally off-screen death we ultimately got.