12 Alternative Horror Movie Endings You Didn't See

Fans of David Cronenberg's 1986 gross out, disease-metaphor body horror will probably remember the dream sequence in which Geena Davis' Veronica gives birth to a writhing, glistening giant maggot.

It's one of the stand out, stomach churning moments in a film that is arguably one massive gip-fest from the second act onwards.

Quick recap for the uninitiated - Jeff Goldblum plays a scientist who becomes genetically fused with a house fly while attempting to perfect teleportation technology, got it?

The famous and quite disgusting 'monkey-cat' deleted scene is available online and luckily, an alternative ending too, which never made it to the final theatrical version. This scene gives a more subjectively optimistic conclusion to an otherwise depressingly bleak drama on the perils of science and the inevitability of terminal disease.

After Seth's (Goldblum) demise at the hands of of Veronica (Davis) and a reluctantly but well-placed shotgun to the head, she picks up her relationship with her editor/boss and total creep, Stathis, now pregnant with his child. As she sleeps, she dreams of a chrysalis within her womb, which slowly peels open to reveal a baby with beautiful butterfly wings.

Although open to interpretation, the imagery here nicely completes the themes of rebirth and redemption within the Zhuangzi/Kafka-esque philosophical conceits behind Seth's metamorphosis. It's a visually striking, albeit weird, sequence; it even succeeds in some small way to soothe your traumatised brain after two hours of acid-puke nightmare soaked violence.