12 Depressing Alternate Endings That Were Way Better Than The Originals

10. Fatal Attraction

Fatal Attraction's ending was never wholly satisfying, especially as Michael Douglas' character is apparently able to get away Scot-free after betraying his wife, and shacking up with a mentally unstable sex-pot.

Obviously, her actions are the implied punishment for his transgressions, but the film spends way too much time postulating on the dangers of hysterical femininity, rather than dealing with the real moral issues. It wasn't always that way though, as director Adrian Lyne's initial version had Alex commit suicide, and frame Dan, though there is a glimmer of hope that his innocence could be preserved...

Despite that ambiguity, the suicide is far more powerful than the ludicrous rise from the dead moment that has gone down in cinematic history as one of the two most memorable parts of the movie. There should always have been

The Problem

It was clearly all a bit too grim for Lyne, and the film ultimately went for a more definitive ending for Alex's story when test audiences responded badly to the original ending.