10 Movies That Were Fixed After Release
6. The Shining

Stanley Kubrick is well known for his exacting filmmaking standards, but this was extreme even for him.
A week after his horror classic The Shining had begun its theatrical rollout in New York and Los Angeles, Kubrick decided to cut a scene at the very end of the film, where Wendy Torrance (Shelley Duvall) is in hospital and informed by the Overlook Hotel's owner, Mr. Ullman (Barry Nelson), that her husband Jack's (Jack Nicholson) body hasn't been found.
Kubrick reportedly had second thoughts and felt that the ending actually worked better without this scene, and so Warner Bros. hired an editor to visit every cinema with a print of the film and physically cut the scene out, in turn reducing The Shining's runtime by two minutes.
Sadly the scene hasn't materialised in the 45 years since the film's release, and fans are left with just a few images of it being shot.
With the cut footage being immediately returned to Warner Bros., it seems highly unlikely to ever see the light of day.