9 Movie Moments Completely Different In Other Countries
4. The Descent's Original Ending Was 'Too Dark' For The US
The original British theatrical cut of The Descent serious trolled audiences at the end by tricking them into thinking Sarah had escaped the monster-infested caverns, only to reveal that her flight to safety was nothing more than a daydream.
After showing her on the road to freedom for a fleeting moment, the scene fades to reveal that the protagonist is still trapped and has gone insane, with the creatures that were hunting her closing in.
The studio decided this conclusion was took bleak for US audiences and simply had the film end moments earlier in the North American cut. Rather than cut back to her doomed plight in the caverns, the movie ends with Sarah on the road.
She does, of course, see a ghostly apparition of her dead friend Juno (like she does in the UK version) and somebody at the studio decided that was enough suffering for US tastes and had the credits roll right there.