10 More Movies That Almost Had Much Better Endings

The story of Natural Born Killers is a relatively simple one with a powerful message that hits hard. Mickey and Mallory Knox, played by Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis respectively, go on a killing spree, taking the lives of more than 50 people, and are all but made stars thanks to the media's coverage.

It's a movie that has not been without controversy over the years, and has been accused of glamorising the crimes of Mickey and Mallory in the exact same way it was itself trying to satire. The final moments certainly didn't help in this regard.

After being arrested and incarcerated for their crimes and having their faces plastered all over TV, the killers managed to escape and in doing so killed almost everybody else in the process. The final shot sees them living out an almost normal life, as a happy family, with laughing children and another one on the way. They killed without remorse, and in the end suffered no consequences.

This wouldn't have been the case in the alternate ending that was shot and left on the cutting room floor, as the two would have been murdered themselves by Owen (Arliss Howard), who helped them escape and is described as something of a guardian angel figure. There is something to be said about the irony of their deaths coming at the hands of another so-called natural born killer rather than any authority like the police, as well as the fact that they weren't able to live out a happy ending after the atrocities they committed.