@with_teeth26 said:
@Byshop said:
@InEMplease said:
The Descent (original ending)
INORITE?!?!?! The US release ruined the film.
-Byshop
does the OG ending not involve the monsters showing up? I loved this film when the horror came from them being stuck in a cave until the usual gorefest began
Here's the original ending:
http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/10/25/the-descent-horror-clip
The US ending is the same, but it cuts out at the at 3:25 at which point the credits roll. Sarah falls when trying to climb up and hits her head. She then gets up and notices a ray of sunshine she didn't see before and climbs to what ends up being a way out of the caves. She gets out, escapes to her car, drives away before she stops to vomit and is then startled by the appearance of a dead Juno in the passenger seat (presumably a trauma-induced hallucination as this movie isn't about ghosts/spirits). This ends the film on a typical Hollywood shlocky horror movie final jump scare, and it makes very little sense because they were very far underground and suddenly she just finds an exit to the surface that was nearby the whole time? The appearance of Juno in the passenger seat also doesn't really fit the tone of the rest of the movie.
The additional footage reveals after the jump scare that she's still on the ground where she hit her head and the last three and a half minutes were just a hopeful dream. She's still in the cave, only now she sees her dead daughter in front of her alive with a birthday cake lit with candles in place of the campfire. Sarah looks at her daughter and, even covered in blood, looks truly happy. The camera pans back showing that the daughter and the cake aren't really there, and Sarah just sits there smiling having basically completely retreated into her own mind and in reality resigning herself to the fact that she's going to die down there as the sounds of the creatures approaching gets louder and louder.
It's only an extra minute and a half or so of footage, but it COMPLETELY changes the tone of the ending from a typical "the final girl gets away" horror trope to something much deeper and sadder, and ultimately far more depressing. The US producers probably thought the original ending was too big a downer.
Side note: The US edited ending was basically used as canon for the second film in which Sarah escapes the cave and runs to the police to tell them about how all her friends got eaten by a bunch of CHUDs.
-Byshop
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