4. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
The "Sad" Ending... Wes Craven's classic '80s slasher movie is renowed for its terrifying ending, in which everybody but Freddy Krueger comes out smiling. The ending plays a little game with viewers, who are led to believe that the sum of the movie has consisted entirely of a dream sequence. Oh, movie. But when our heroine Nancy wakes up and gets into a car with all her friends, it suddenly takes control of itself, driving forwards in a sinister fashion, and Marge is pulled into the house by Freddy's gloved hand. Terrifying, don't you think?
The Abandoned "Happy" Ending... The abandoned "happy" ending was abandoned for good reason: it sucked. Having gone through everything that she did in the movie, Nancy wakes up to find that it really
was a dream. Like, everything we witnessed was just a teenage nightmare. She gets into the car with her friends, who are also alive and fine and everything, and they all drive off to school together. Roll credits. I mean, c'mon... we all know that "it was just a dream" is the worst choice of ending of them all, don't we? I was sure that Wes Craven would have known that, at least. Apparently not. At least this was thrown out, anyway.