8 Movies That Stupidly Scrapped Perfect Endings

5. Little Shop Of Horrors

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When Seymour uses an exotic species of plant in his run down flower shop to attract customers, the last thing he expects is for it to start hungering for blood and devouring human flesh - but hey ho, that's what happens when you become a plant mom in this economy. Seymour names his green friend after Audrey, his romantic interest, which is poetic justice for when Audrey II tries to eat her alive in the closing act of the movie.

And this is where we get to the juicy alternate ending. In the theatrical release, Audrey II is taken down by Seymour who then moves in with the plant's namesake and lives happily ever after - or at least, so you'd think, until a cute little Audrey II bud can be spotted in their perfect picket flower beds. Whilst that's all lovely and fine and just threatening enough, the batsh*t second take on the ending is one that would have really sent the Little Shop of Horrors into badass territory, holding nothing back in its menacing green glory.

Instead of surviving the Audrey II attack, Audrey is killed, and Seymour attempts suicide before being alerted to cuttings of Audrey II being sold to the public. He tries to kill the big bad plant but has his shop destroyed and is devoured in the process, leaving the world to go into apocalyptic ruin as the alien cuttings feast on humanity in camp, uncontrollable, B-movie goodness. One big plant sits on top of the statue of liberty going radge for human flesh.

How anyone could think that this wasn't the perfect ending is absolutely baffling.

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