10 Horror Movies Where The Reshoots Were Obvious

Despite being a fairly straightforward, mid-budget horror film, the belated third entry into the American Ring franchise wasn't released until almost two years after principal photography wrapped.

Reshoots took place a year after the main shoot was completed following poor test screenings, and it's evident from the disastrous final cut of the movie that this thing was thanklessly hammered into shape by its poor, poor editing team.

Numerous sequences from earlier trailers were bizarrely left out of the final cut, including the presence of actress Andrea Powell as protagonist Julia's (Matilda Lutz) mother, while reshoots reportedly added more conventional jump scare moments and changed the ending to more explicitly set up a sequel where the cursed video goes viral.

The entire movie feels like a shambling husk of a film that could fall apart at any one moment, and never more than in an ending that reeks of an executive mandate from the studio.

For the record, this is the more modest, less-ridiculous ending that was originally shot.