11 Awesome Movie Scenes That Almost Didn't Happen

2. The Death Fake-Out - Fatal Attraction

Michael Myers and Halloween might have basically invented the "he's not really dead" fake-out that all horror movies now seem to use as a staple, but there's never been a finer example of the trope than in Fatal Attraction.

The movie that invented the "bunny boiler" term might not have been the most progressive, nor the most forgiving of human error but there's no denying the simple appeal in the horror of a man (Michael Douglas) almost killed for his sins.

Ultimately, karma doesn't get him - even though it probably should, on the balance of things - and instead, he and his way too forgiving wife end up killing said bunny boiler, played by Glenn Close. It takes both of them because she somehow survives a vigorous drowning only to be shot at the last minute by Douglas' wife.

It's a memorable scene that seemed to make Close's character almost supernatural, but it almost didn't even make the film as the original ending had her grimly slitting her throat to implicate Douglas, who was arrested. Talk about your downer endings. Unfortunately for everyone who rightly believed he deserved it, test audiences didn't think much of it and we ended up with a classic ending all the same.