8 Horror Movies Where The Killer Was Meant To Be Someone Else

While she would ultimately end up being revealed as one of the killers behind the chaos of Happy Death Day 2U, the character of Laura Clifton's Stephanie Butler originally had a pivotal part to play in that 2019 sequel's predecessor.

In that movie, Jessica Rothe's Tree Gelbman ends up in a slice 'n' dice version of Groundhog Day. Being killed by a masked killer, waking up to live the same day again, only to be murdered once more, Tree eventually pieces together that it's her roommate Lori who is pulling the strings behind all of this.

For the planned ending of Happy Death Day, Tree killing Lori was only the tip of the iceberg. Due to the cumulative injuries picked up throughout her lather, rinse, repeat terrors, Tree was taken to the hospital in the original close of Christopher Landon's picture.

There, the nurse looking after her would be Stephanie Butler - the husband of the man who both Tree and Lori had been having affairs with - and Roth's character would be killed yet again, plummeting her into another time loop scenario.

Test audiences hated the ending, and thus Stephanie's involvement in the final act was removed.