Those films that refused to give horror hounds what they'd been promised.
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00:00The horror genre is one famed for those memorable, earned moments, which serve as a payoff to
00:06the audience who've watched the antics of a film or franchise play out.
00:10For whatever reason, regardless of whether the film is any good or not, there are some
00:14horror offerings that opt against showing us all what we'd wanted or expected.
00:18For example, what's the point in elaborately teasing a tension-laced death, only to go
00:23through with said death but not even show it?
00:25So, with that in mind, I'm Ellie with WhatCulture, here with 10 Horror Movies That Missed Out
00:30the Money Shot.
00:3210.
00:33The Ultimate Fate of Principal Himbury in Scream
00:36The third person killed in Scream, following in the footsteps of lovebirds Stephen Orth
00:41and Casey Becker, the final fate of Henry Winkler's Principal Himbury is stated but
00:46sadly never shown.
00:48Seemingly killed by Billy Loomis while co-conspirator Stu Marker was busy setting up his big house
00:52party, Himbury is stabbed and butchered after hours at school.
00:57The initial part of this attack is indeed seen on screen, but the final part is kept
01:01from audience's eyes.
01:03A plan concocted by Billy and Stu to have the vast majority of classmates leave Stu's
01:08party, you know, so that the film's final act can fully kick into gear, we hear how
01:12Principal Himbury's dead gutted body was left hanging from the school's football posts.
01:17Eager to check out this gnarly sight, plentiful characters decide to skip out on the Marker
01:22house in order to view this scene of bloody murder.
01:25Unlike the similar fate handed out to Drew Barrymore's Casey in the opening minutes
01:29of Scream, the hanged corpse of Principal Himbury goes unseen by horror hounds.
01:349.
01:35Edgar vs Sam in Lost Boys The Thirst
01:39While Lost Boys The Tribe was absolutely not worth the 21-year wait for a follow-up of
01:44Joel Schumacher's iconic 1987 picture, one of the few bright spots of the sequel was
01:50the post-credits reintroduction of Corey Haim's Sam Emerson.
01:55Having been absent as Corey Feldman's Edgar Frog once again fought the good fight against
01:59a vampiric horde, Sam rocks up after The Tribe ends.
02:04After Edgar had teamed with the cousins of Haim's character to save the day here, he
02:08has a meeting with Sam midway through the film's credits.
02:11With Sam himself now a vampire, the two exchange quips before lunging at each other as the
02:16scene ends.
02:18Ahead of threequel Lost Boys The Thirst two years later, the initial plan was for Sam
02:23vs Edgar to be the main driving point of the plot.
02:27That ultimately didn't happen, with the Sam character instead killed off by the time
02:31of The Thirst.
02:32Unfortunately, Haim passed away in March 2010, shortly after initial production had wrapped
02:39on The Thirst.
02:408.
02:41Henry reverts to type in Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer
02:46Throughout the first half of this John McNaughton picture, Henry and pal Otis are shown to be
02:51utterly hideous creatures who brutalise men, women and children at random and merely for
02:57their own amusement.
02:58Then, unexpectedly, the audience gets the first hint that maybe Henry has a softer side,
03:04with Otis' sister Becky slowly but surely starting to get the rogue to drop his sinister
03:08guard.
03:09With a bond blossoming between Henry and Becky, Rooker's character comes to the defence of
03:14her when she finds herself in trouble.
03:16Being the twisted movie that Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer is, that trouble means
03:21the sexual assault of Becky, and that defence means Henry murdering Otis for this act.
03:27After dumping Otis' body, Henry and Becky shack up in a motel, profess their undying
03:31love for one another, and you start to think Henry really has changed his spots.
03:36Instead, the gut-punch final shot of Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer is Henry throwing
03:40a bloodstained suitcase out of his car, with the insinuation that Becky's corpse is inside.
03:467.
03:47Hoffman's Comeuppance in Saw 3D
03:51With it revealed at the end of Saw 4 how Caster's Mandalore's detective Mark Hoffman was actually
03:56an apprentice of Jigsaw's, the Rogue Copper's nefarious antics would play out across the
04:01next three films, before eventually coming to an end at the close of the seventh movie
04:06in the series, Saw 3D.
04:09Having seen Hoffman cause so much murderous chaos once the cat was let out of the bag
04:13during Saw 4's finale, it was a total, no pun intended, cop-out to not show the character's
04:20downfall in all its glory.
04:22That downfall came about after Hoffman had killed Jill Tuck, the wife of Jigsaw, for
04:27her want to expose the truth of his crimes.
04:29With Jill dead, Mandalore's character is kidnapped by three pig-mask adorned sorts during the
04:34final moments of Saw 3D.
04:36There, it's revealed that Lawrence Gordon, of the original Saw picture, was another of
04:41Jigsaw's apprentices, and he'd been instructed to kill Hoffman should anything happen to
04:45Jill.
04:46As that seventh entry concludes, Hoffman is left alone to die in the same eerie bathroom
04:51where Gordon had spent so much of the first Saw movie.
04:55But that's it.
04:56There's no witnessing the true fate of the detective.
04:586.
04:59The Decimation of Montreal in Shivers
05:03In the most basic description, David Cronenberg's Shivers centres on a turd-like parasite that
05:08passes from person to person, turning each individual into a horned-up, murderous lunatic.
05:13Set at the luxury Starliner Towers apartment complex in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, this
05:181981 offering is as deranged as one would expect from early Cronenberg.
05:23A sprinkling of gore, a smidge of sex, a healthy dollop of body horror, all were present and
05:28accounted for in Shivers.
05:30Before more and more of the Starliner building's residents become infected by the film's parasitic
05:34entity, it's Paul Hampton's Roger St Luke, the doctor of the complex, who ends up being
05:40the last person standing.
05:42Even then, St Luke is eventually overwhelmed in the on-site swimming pool by the bloodthirsty,
05:47humping hordes of Shivers as the picture enters its final few minutes.
05:52As Shivers closes, the audience sees the deranged masses of Starliner Towers firing up their
05:56cars and heading into central Montreal.
05:59While it is a solid ending for the movie, it does feel as if the film may have benefited
06:03from another few scenes that see the erratic impact the infected immediately began to have
06:09on the rest of Montreal, as a way to show how the world as a whole would be ravaged
06:13by this parasite.
06:155.
06:16Splitsville for Nash in The Hitcher
06:19The death of The Hitcher's Nash is one of the most disturbing, tension-laced demise
06:24of 80s horror, yet it's one that we never see in any real detail.
06:29In this 1986 picture, Rutger Hauer's John Ryder is the titular Hitcher who's in the
06:33middle of a killing spree that sees him off random drivers and eventually a bunch of cops.
06:39Caught up in all of this is Jim Halsey, who made the mistake of picking up Ryder midway
06:44through said bloodbath.
06:46When Halsey makes friends with waitress Nash, that inadvertently puts poor Nash in the crosshairs
06:50of Hauer's character.
06:52By that, it means that Ryder kidnaps her and ties her up between a truck cabin and the
06:56pitch of its trailer.
06:58Wanting to accelerate and tear Nash in two, Ryder has the cops and Jim where he wants
07:02them, as he knows they can't shoot him for fear of his foot slipping off the clutch.
07:07After a back and forth with Halsey, the villain of the piece simply goes ahead and releases
07:11the clutch, ripping Nash apart.
07:13The audience don't see this death, though, as The Hitcher opts to instead have a tearing
07:17noise play over the top of the character's screams.
07:214.
07:22David's Betrayal of Shaw in Alien Covenant
07:26One of the stars of Prometheus, Noomi Rapace's Elizabeth Shaw, was set to once again be at
07:31the centre of Ridley Scott's Prometheus follow-up, until the director completely backtracked on
07:36his initial plans.
07:38By the end of Prometheus, Shaw is on a journey to the Engineer's home planet, with the remains
07:43of the David android along for the ride.
07:46At that point, the next film in the series was dubbed Alien Paradise Lost, and was intended
07:51to focus on Shaw's mission, with Scott categorically stating there will be no xenomorph presence
07:57in the picture, and that Paradise Lost would be far more in tune with the style and aesthetic
08:01of Prometheus than any of the prior Alien movies.
08:05With the Paradise Lost title reworked as Alien Covenant, audiences received a vastly different
08:10sequel to what was originally promised by the time Covenant made its way to the silver
08:14screen in 2017.
08:17Still, it was confirmed that Noomi Rapace would be back in a minor role for the film.
08:22Rather than being featured in Covenant, though, Doc Shaw was absent from the theatrical cut
08:26of the movie.
08:27Instead, her corpse was shown in a promotional pre-release prologue, with it known that she
08:32died after being experimented on by David.
08:36But the money shot of these experiments and subsequent death never made it to the screen.
08:413.
08:42Kane Hodder Battles Robert Englund in Freddy vs. Jason
08:46No disrespect to Ken Kersinger or the admittedly fun Freddy vs. Jason, but the main money shot
08:52people wanted to see when these two behemoths of horror clashed was Robert Englund's Freddy
08:56Krueger squaring off against Kane Hodder's Jason Voorhees.
09:00By the time the long-rumoured Freddy vs. Jason finally entered production in 2002, Hodder
09:06had become THE Jason to Friday the 13th fans.
09:10As six different actors played Voorhees in the prior six films, Friday the 13th Part
09:157 The New Blood saw Kane embark on a run of four consecutive movies playing this most
09:21iconic of horror characters.
09:23Of course, Robert Englund had by this point played Freddy in seven movies and a TV series,
09:29and so fans presumed and eagerly anticipated seeing Englund's Krueger and Hodder's Jason
09:34butting heads in Ronnie Yu's 2003 picture.
09:38Despite receiving the film's script and meeting with Yu, Kane Hodder was bafflingly
09:43left out in the cold by the time Freddy vs. Jason started shooting.
09:47Fans were left with a bad taste in their mouth at being deprived of seeing the definitive
09:51Jason Voorhees stepping up to take on Freddy Krueger.
09:552.
09:56A Flamethrower-Wielding, Chrome-Masked Ghost Face in Scream
10:00To take one more trip to Woodsboro, this year's Scream left jaws agape when one of its trailers
10:05showed a chrome-masked ghost face going berserk with a flamethrower.
10:10At that point, audiences had zero idea how this was going to play into the plot of this
10:14fifth Scream picture.
10:16While the moment did technically appear in Scream, this particular money shot wasn't
10:21actually a part of the antics of the latest set of ghost face killers who were terrorising
10:25Woodsboro.
10:26Instead, this bonkers version of the franchise's masked maniac was merely a ghost face from
10:30Stab 8, as brilliantly, briefly spotlighted by a cameo from Deadmeat's James A. Janisse
10:36and Chelsea Rebecca as the two rip into this latest entry in the Stab series.
10:411.
10:42The Death of Dr. Loomis in the Halloween Franchise
10:46Donald Pleasence's Dr. Samuel Loomis holds a special place in the heart of many a horror
10:50hound, not to mention having outings in Rob Zombie's pair of Halloween pictures, as
10:55played by Malcolm McDowell.
10:58While McDowell's Loomis was seen stabbed to death by Michael at the close of Zombies
11:02Halloween 2, the demise of Pleasence's Loomis is one of the missing key parts of the franchise.
11:08In the Halloween H20 timeline, we're informed that the original iteration of Sam died of
11:13a heart attack between movies.
11:15For the canon of David Gordon Green's recent Halloween pictures, Loomis actually stopped
11:20being Michael's doctor shortly after the events of the 1978 movie, and Sam would pass
11:25away a little further down the line.
11:27Regardless, Halloween fans never got to see the truly final battle between Sam Loomis
11:32and his long-time obsession.
11:35And that concludes our list.
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