10 More Alternate Horror Movie Endings You Didn't See

8. Paxton Becomes A Monster - Hostel

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Hostel is a grim, depressing movie, yet this alternate ending somehow makes the picture even more grim and depressing.

In this Eli Roth film, two of the friends of Jay Hernandez's Paxton are killed and he himself is tortured in some twisted ways at the hands of the nefarious Elite Hunting Group.

For Paxton, he's fortunate enough he's able to temporarily (see: Hostel Part II) escapes the clutches of the disturbing Elite Hunting Group; an organisation that auctions off people to be tortured. Closing out this 2005 film, Paxton makes it onto a train that stops up in Vienna. There, he spots the Dutch Businessman who killed his buddy Josh, and thus follows DB into the public bathroom and murders him before hopping onto another train.

How could you make Hostel even more troubling? Why, you have an alternate ending where Paxton kidnaps a kid.

In this variant final scene, Paxton spots the aforementioned Dutch Businessman character at a train station with his young daughter. After the unnamed Dutchman goes to the restroom, he returns to find his offspring missing. As he holds her teddy bear and screams out for her, the audience sees a clearly troubled Paxton restraining the girl in a train that soon departs the station.

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