Interesting earlier versions of films

To be fait both endings suck
Would have sucked

In the first novel, released in 2001

The original I Am Legend ending at least attempts to follow the same theme as the book's ending even if it's different, and makes sense with the rest of the film.

How so ? It has nothing to do, book’s vampires are self conscious and condemn him to death at the end.
When you say original ending you are talking about Will Smith sacrificing himself with a grenade right ? If not I’m sorry I misunderstood your point

I mean the actual original ending they replaced after test screenings were negative. While different it keeps the "he's been killing sentient creatures this whole time" aspect, albeit with him ending things peacefully.

Ok yeah, that’s true. Then the true mistake is from the movie, that failed to «humanize» the monsters until the very end of it.

Most of the Halloween sequels were absolute messes behind the scenes, most famously Halloween 6 with its multiple cuts, but 5 also had a completely different (and infinitely darker) ending too.

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you understood they were intelligent when the big guy set the trap, you saw his rage when Smith took or killed one of them, the real problem is the cgi for the vamps kinda sucked even at the time, which is a shame because shit like the deer cgi was fantastic

In Night of the Demon Jacques Tourneur wanted to follow the original story "Casting the Runes" as closely as possible, without showing the monster at all.
The producer talked him out of it reasoning that M.R. James's story was a mood piece, and they had to show SOMETHING to scare the audience.
This was the rare time that studio interference actually made a movie better.

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The film had been clearly setting up that they were sentient throughout, which is why that dumb theatrical ending was even worse, it flies in the face of the rest of the film.

I know about Curse having a theatrical cut and a producer's cut, what about the other films?

I want to see the world where Halloween 3 was a success and they made numerous other Halloween themed anthology films rather than just tired Myers rehashes.

Carpenter making a halloween themed movie every few years would be a great timeline

>had a completely different (and infinitely darker) ending too.
do tell

It was good until the retarded woman arrived.
Shit after that

Ridley Scott also got it into his head that he wanted Alien to end with the alien just killing Ripley and recording a message to the ships in her voice (...somehow). Producers went with the script ending.

Not well at all though. Everything about them was stupid and poorly executed.
>oh they set a trap
>no other living thing can do that
Get the fuck outta there wanker.

This would’ve been such a haunting ending but it absolutely should’ve happened.

So a producer hated having a kid as the lead because they thought it limited them too much and had all the labor laws, blah blah so they wanted her offed. After that scene where she unmasks Michael he was just going to catch her at last and behead her with the butcher knife, then the Myers house burns down but he's last seen disappearing into the night with her head. Studio didn't like a kid dying in the film so this was changed to the jail ending which they had absolutely zero followup planned for, and the man in black scenes added, also no plan whatsoever for

Actually I'm not sure why I bothered spoilering a 30 year old film's unused material

the bait he used was very clever no animal could figure out that that specific manikin was the one and set a deaddrop trap I think its called, they aren't as intelligent as the Heston ones sure but its clear they are smart