8 Movie Scenes You Didn't See (Thanks To Test Audiences)

Just like an unfortunate trip to the clinic, even a certified classic cinematic masterpiece like Goodfellas hasn't come out clean from the test screenings, with a very different story to tell for first watchers than what made it to the big screen.

Telling the tale of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, Goodfellas is one of the most famous and well-executed gangster movies in circulation. You know its got its place in history when there's a whole pizza company named after it: the true definition of living the dream.

Martin Scorsese's first movie to have been forced into a test screening, it sent 40 people out of the cinema before the first ten minutes were up. With far gorier scenes, uncomfortable moments, and an extended period at the end of the film where Henry's last drug-fueled day becomes unbearably long and agitating, the audience members that stayed weren't rewarded with much other than unsettling and disturbing scenes.

Scorsese subsequently transformed the last act of the film with jump cuts, and toned down the violence that sent audiences packing initially. There's really a trend emerging here of filmmakers being far more f*cked up than we thought before getting reeled in by shocked watchers...