Is there a fan edit with the original ending?
Does anyone know?
shareJust read what the original ending. I think I prefer it. It's more fucked up.
shareI'm ambivalent, sometimes I think the original is great, others I think the released one is great.
shareI think, if memory serves, that test audiences hated the original ending.
shareWell, wouldn't be the first time I disagree with the masses. Or in this case, a bunch of people at a test screening. π
shareπ You are discerning!
So according to IMDb.
"Original ending had Alex committing suicide while dressed in white, and Dan being arrested for her murder. Dan's wife, while looking for the phone number of her husband's lawyer, finds a cassette tape recorded by Alex in which she states her intention to commit suicide. The wife runs out of the house with the tape (presumably going to the police) and the film ends with a flashback of Alex slashing her throat in the bathroom while listening to "Madama Butterfly"
It would have been very dark to have no tape and Dan ends up in prison for MOIDER!
Imdb continues..
"When preview audiences hated this ending, a new one was shot (where Alex is killed by Dan's wife with a gun). The original ending still appears in the Japanese release and was added to the US video and laser editions."
So that kind of answers the OP...kind of.
yes, it should have been without the tape.
shareI think test audiences were worried that Alex didn't really get her comeuppance like any other movie villain would normally warrant.
http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Alex_Forrest