8 Movies That Stupidly Scrapped Perfect Endings

Considering just how much of a dick Dan has been throughout Fatal Attraction, he gets off pretty lightly by just losing one rabbit and not his whole family by the close of the movie. Dan cheats on his wife Beth with Alex, accidentally stirring an obsession within her that gets more and more dangerous as the film goes on - with her wildly clingy personality culminating in an attack on Beth and Alex getting shot in the chest in self defence. It's implied that Dan keeps his marriage intact and that despite all the crazy events that have happened to them, he's gotten off scott-free with cheating and then lying about it until it literally threatened his life. But the alternate ending doesn't allow for such tom foolery.

Alex is far more cold and calculating in the close of this version, plotting a suicide that paints Dan as a murderer which then gets him arrested. Beth then manages to find evidence of Alex's plot which she brings to the police - but the muted, disturbing quality of the sequence implies a far darker and more haunting resolution for the family in the wake of such a brutal experience instead of a happy slasher show down.

Glenn Close herself gunned for the ending to not be changed from this as she felt it humanised Alex and was the natural conclusion for her 'self-destruction', but gave in after 2 weeks of protest as the new version gave a sense of hope that the original lacked. In either case, it's a far more intense ending that would have given Fatal Attraction a whole new dimension, but it's one we have to watch as a special instead.