10 Biggest Missed Opportunities In Horror Movie History
1. Alfred Hitchcock's Kaleidoscope
Though Alfred Hitchcock released the thriller Frenzy in 1972, it was actually spawned from an unrealised idea the legendary filmmaker had years prior, of a horror-themed prequel to his 1943 noir classic Shadow of a Doubt.
Kaleidoscope - or as it was once known, Frenzy - would've followed a handsome bodybuilder who is secretly a serial killer of women, and unfolded from a first-person perspective.
Also as a product of the late 1960s, the project would've been decidedly more graphic in its approach to sex and violence than Hitchcock's previous horror films.
However, Universal ultimately refused to move forward with the project due to concerns over its transgressive content, and so all that remains today is less than a minute of not-safe-for-work test footage shot by Hitchcock.
It sure would've been fascinating to see Hitchcock deliver such an extreme, untethered piece of work in the late phase of his career, but alas, it wasn't to be.