10 Sci-Fi Movies That Almost Had Way Better Endings

Yes, alright, we know—Jordan Peele’s first feature film is nigh on perfect, and this fact is as unimpeachable in horror nerd circles as the film’s fantasy version of a three-term Obama. But despite the well-deserved praise lavished on the flick, it almost had an ending even better than what we got, though a lot less crowd-pleasing.

This one is a rare case where the director himself decided the original bleak ending would be too much and opted for the harsh but ultimately cathartic coda we got. What was originally on the cards for protagonist Daniel Kaluuya’s Chris was a far crueller fate, but one which did underlined the film’s central theme of the evils of institutional racism.

When the police sirens began blaring upon their arrival at the villainous family’s sprawling estate, the collective stomachs of audiences dropped in shock, as the viewer presumes that our hero Chris is about to be killed by the police in a case of racial profiling.

And indeed he would have been in the original ending, wrapping up the Twilight Zone-style satire with a fittingly ironic, if vicious, closer.