8 Movies That Stupidly Scrapped Perfect Endings

Considering the 2013 reboot of Carrie was treading on some serious toes with its approach to Brian De Palma's much celebrated 1976 work of the same name, you'd think it would be doing all it could to separate itself as an entirely new beast. Sadly, the new Carrie largely plays it safe and has fallen into the void of bad, forgotten remakes that nobody particularly cares for - and whilst it's not unforgivably terrible, it's not half the film it could have been either, which this scrapped ending would have gone a small way to helping.

In the original movie, we're treated to one final jump scare as Sue visits Carrie's grave, where Carrie hasn't quite had enough of the world of the living and claws her way out with one bloodied hand grabbing onto poor Sue, who then wakes up from a dream. In the remake, this has been adapted to her grave simple cracking after Sue places a flower on it. Frankly - it's dry and boring and doesn't go far enough. Which is exactly where this alternate stinger would have played in to excellent effect.

The version they binned had poor Sue giving birth in hospital in a nightmare, where instead of a baby popping out, we're treated to Carrie's own bloodied, goopy hand barrelling out of her vagina and grappling her wrist in the style as 1976's handsy corpse. Sue then wakes up to find Carrie cradling the child in her room.

It's weird, it's wonderful, and it would have worked wizardry on a lacklustre ending - but what we got was a poorly tended gravestone, which is apt enough for this buried movie.