10 Horror Movies That Originally Had A Much Darker Ending

The original Carrie has one of the all-time great endings. Even knowing it's coming, your heart will still skip a beat when Carrie's hand rises from the grave in one of cinema's greatest jump scares.

The 2013 remake, by way of contrast, simply ends with Carrie's tombstone cracking. A pale riff on the original movie, the remake's disappointing ending is an apt summation of why it's largely forgotten in modern movie discourse. Things could have been very different, however, if the movie studio had been brave enough to go with the remake's original ending.

The remake was meant to end with Carrie's classmate Sue dreaming that she was giving birth. Except, instead of a beautiful bouncing baby, Sue's natal exertions resulted in Carrie's bloodied arm emerging from her former classmate's birth canal. Carrie's viscera-soaked hand then grabbed Sue's arm - in a neat call-back to the original movie - while Sue understandably screamed her head off.

The reveal that this is all a dream does nothing to diminish the disturbing nature of the scene, and it's baffling as to why it was left out. Maybe the studio thought they were doing everyone a favour by protecting them from the thousands of "talk to the hand" memes that would have surely followed?