8 Horror Movies With Different Endings In Different Countries

A stonking five endings were ultimately shot for 2005's psychological horror Hide and Seek, with the US theatrical release opting for the one in which evil is apparently vanquished, only for young Emily (Dakota Fanning) to be shown drawing a picture of herself with two heads.

This suggests that she may have the very same dissociative identity disorder as her villainous father David/Charlie (Robert De Niro).

The ending for international audiences, however, shows Emily living her new life, only to reveal that her bedroom is actually a hospital room in a children's psych ward. Dr. Katherine Carson (Famke Janssen) then tells a fellow doctor that she's going to keep visiting Emily to observe her behaviour.

Given that the filmmakers produced numerous endings ranging from bleak to ambiguous to hopeful, it's clear that they just didn't really know how to end this thing. 

And so, they gave US audiences a more genre-typical final stinger while the international ending proved more ambiguous.