Those films that refused to give horror hounds what they'd been promised.
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00:00 The horror genre is one famed for those memorable, earned moments which serve as a payoff to
00:06 the audience who've watched the antics of a film or franchise play out.
00:10 For whatever reason, regardless of whether the film is any good or not, there are some
00:14 horror offerings that opt against showing us all what we'd wanted or expected.
00:18 For example, what's the point in elaborately teasing a tension-laced death only to go through
00:23 with said death but not even show it?
00:25 So, with that in mind, I'm Ellie with WhatCulture here with 10 Horror Movies That Missed Out
00:30 the Money Shot.
00:32 10.
00:33 The Ultimate Fate of Principal Himbury in Scream
00:36 The third person killed in Scream, following in the footsteps of Lovebirds Stephen Orth
00:41 and Casey Becker, the final fate of Henry Winkler's Principal Himbury is stated but
00:46 sadly never shown.
00:48 Seemingly killed by Billy Loomis while co-conspirator Stu Marker was busy setting up his big house
00:53 party, Himbury is stabbed and butchered after hours at school.
00:57 The initial part of this attack is indeed seen on screen, but the final part is kept
01:01 from audience's eyes.
01:03 A plan concocted by Billy and Stu to have the vast majority of classmates leave Stu's
01:08 party, you know, so that the film's final act can fully kick into gear, we hear how
01:12 Principal Himbury's dead gutted body was left hanging from the school's football
01:16 posts.
01:17 Eager to check out this gnarly sight, plentiful characters decide to skip out on the Marker
01:22 house in order to view this scene of bloody murder.
01:25 Unlike the similar fate handed out to Drew Barrymore's Casey in the opening minutes
01:29 of Scream, the hanged corpse of Principal Himbury goes unseen by horror hounds.
01:34 9.
01:35 Edgar vs Sam in Lost Boys The Thirst
01:39 While Lost Boys The Tribe was absolutely not worth the 21 year wait for a follow up of
01:44 Joel Schumacher's iconic 1987 picture, one of the few bright spots of the sequel was
01:50 the post-credits reintroduction of Corey Haim's Sam Emerson.
01:55 Having been absent as Corey Feldman's Edgar Frog once again fought the good fight against
01:59 a vampiric horde, Sam rocks up after The Tribe ends.
02:04 After Edgar had teamed with the cousins of Haim's character to save the day here, he
02:08 has a meeting with Sam midway through the film's credits.
02:11 With Sam himself now a vampire, the two exchange quips before lunging at each other as the
02:16 scene ends.
02:17 Ahead of the prequel Lost Boys The Thirst two years later, the initial plan was for
02:22 Sam vs Edgar to be the main driving point of the plot.
02:27 That ultimately didn't happen, with the Sam character instead killed off by the time
02:31 of The Thirst.
02:32 Unfortunately, Haim passed away in March 2010, shortly after initial production had wrapped
02:39 on The Thirst.
02:40 8.
02:41 Henry reverts to type in Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer
02:46 Throughout the first half of this John McNaughton picture, Henry and pal Otis are shown to be
02:51 utterly hideous creatures who brutalise men, women and children at random and merely for
02:57 their own amusement.
02:58 Then unexpectedly, the audience gets the first hints that maybe Henry has a softer side,
03:03 with Otis' sister Becky slowly but surely starting to get the rogue to drop his sinister
03:08 guard.
03:09 With a bond blossoming between Henry and Becky, Rooker's character comes to the defence of
03:14 her when she finds herself in trouble.
03:16 Being the twisted movie that Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer is, that trouble means
03:21 the sexual assault of Becky, and that defence means Henry murdering Otis for this act.
03:27 After dumping Otis' body, Henry and Becky shack up in a motel, profess their undying
03:31 love for one another, and you start to think Henry really has changed his spots.
03:36 Instead the gut punch final shot of Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer is Henry throwing
03:40 a bloodstained suitcase out of his car, with the insinuation that Becky's corpse is inside.
03:46 7.
03:47 Hoffman's Comeuppance in Saw 3D
03:51 With it revealed at the end of Saw 4 how Caster's Mandalore's detective Mark Hoffman was actually
03:56 an apprentice of Jigsaw's, the Rogue Coppers' nefarious antics would play out across the
04:01 next three films, before eventually coming to an end at the close of the seventh movie
04:06 in the series, Saw 3D.
04:09 Having seen Hoffman cause so much murderous chaos once the cat was let out of the bag
04:13 during Saw 4's finale, it was a total, no pun intended, cop out to not show the character's
04:20 downfall in all its glory.
04:22 That downfall came about after Hoffman had killed Jill Tuck, the wife of Jigsaw, for
04:27 her want to expose the truth of his crimes.
04:29 With Jill dead, Mandalore's character is kidnapped by three pig-mask adorned sorts
04:34 during the final moments of Saw 3D.
04:36 There, it's revealed that Lawrence Gordon, of the original Saw picture, was another of
04:41 Jigsaw's apprentices, and he'd been instructed to kill Hoffman should anything happen to
04:45 Jill.
04:46 As that seventh entry concludes, Hoffman is left alone to die in the same eerie bathroom
04:51 where Gordon had spent so much of the first Saw movie.
04:54 But that's it.
04:55 There's no witnessing the true fate of the detective.
04:58 6.
04:59 The Decimation of Montreal in Shivers
05:02 In the most basic description, David Cronenberg's Shivers centres on a turd-like parasite that
05:08 passes from person to person, turning each individual into a horned up, murderous lunatic.
05:13 Set at the luxury Starliner Tower's apartment complex in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, this
05:18 1981 offering is as deranged as one would expect from early Cronenberg.
05:23 A sprinkling of gore, a smidge of sex, a healthy dollop of body horror, all were present and
05:28 accounted for in Shivers.
05:30 Before more and more of the Starliner building's residents become infected by the film's parasitic
05:34 entity, it's Paul Hampton's Roger St Luke, the doctor of the complex, who ends up being
05:40 the last person standing.
05:42 Even then, St Luke is eventually overwhelmed in the on-site swimming pool by the bloodthirsty,
05:47 humping hordes of Shivers as the picture enters its final few minutes.
05:51 As Shivers closes, the audience sees the deranged masses of Starliner Towers firing up their
05:56 cars and heading into central Montreal.
05:59 While it is a solid ending for the movie, it does feel as if the film may have benefited
06:03 from another few scenes that see the erratic impact the infected immediately began to have
06:09 on the rest of Montreal, as a way to show how the world as a whole would be ravaged
06:13 by this parasite.
06:15 5.
06:16 Splitsville for Nash in The Hitcher
06:19 The death of The Hitcher's Nash is one of the most disturbing, tension-laced demise
06:24 of 80s horror, yet it's one that we never see in any real detail.
06:29 In this 1986 picture, Rutger Hauer's John Ryder is the titular Hitcher who's in the
06:33 middle of a killing spree that sees him off random drivers and eventually a bunch of cops.
06:39 Caught up in all of this is Jim Halsey, who made the mistake of picking up Ryder midway
06:44 through said bloodbath.
06:46 When Halsey makes friends with waitress Nash, that inadvertently puts poor Nash in the crosshairs
06:50 of Hauer's character.
06:52 By that, it means that Ryder kidnaps her and ties her up between a truck cabin and the
06:56 pitch of its trailer.
06:58 Threatening to accelerate and tear Nash in two, Ryder has the cops and Jim where he wants
07:02 them, as he knows they can't shoot him for fear of his foot slipping off the clutch.
07:07 After a back and forth with Halsey, the villain of the piece simply goes ahead and releases
07:11 the clutch, ripping Nash apart.
07:13 The audience don't see this death, though, as The Hitcher opts to instead have a tearing
07:17 noise play over the top of the character's screams.
07:21 4.
07:22 David's Betrayal of Shaw in Alien Covenant
07:26 One of the stars of Prometheus, Noomi Rapace's Elizabeth Shaw, was set to once again be at
07:31 the centre of Ridley Scott's Prometheus follow up.
07:34 Well that is, until the director completely backtracked on his initial plans.
07:38 By the end of Prometheus, Shaw is on a journey to the Engineer's home planet, with the remains
07:43 of the David android along for the ride.
07:46 At that point, the next film in the series was dubbed Alien Paradise Lost, and was intended
07:51 to focus on Shaw's mission, with Scott categorically stating there will be no xenomorph presence
07:57 in the picture, and that Paradise Lost would be far more in tune with the style and aesthetic
08:01 of Prometheus than any of the prior Alien movies.
08:05 With the Paradise Lost title reworked as Alien Covenant, audiences received a vastly different
08:10 sequel to what was originally promised by the time Covenant made its way to the silver
08:14 screen in 2017.
08:16 Still, it was confirmed that Noomi Rapace would be back in a minor role for the film.
08:22 Rather than being featured in Covenant though, Doc Shaw was absent from the theatrical cut
08:26 of the movie.
08:27 Instead, her corpse was shown in a promotional pre-release prologue, with it known that she
08:32 died after being experimented on by David.
08:36 But the money shot of these experiments and subsequent death never made it to the screen.
08:41 3. Kane Hodder Battles Robert England in Freddy vs Jason
08:46 No disrespect to Ken Kersinger or the admittedly fun Freddy vs Jason, but the main money shot
08:52 people wanted to see when these two behemoths of horror clashed was Robert England's Freddy
08:56 Krueger squaring off against Kane Hodder's Jason Voorhees.
09:00 By the time the long-rumoured Freddy vs Jason finally entered production in 2002, Hodder
09:06 had become THE Jason to Friday the 13th fans.
09:10 After six different actors played Voorhees in the prior six films, Friday the 13th Part
09:15 7 The New Blood saw Kane embark on a run of four consecutive movies playing this most
09:21 iconic of horror characters.
09:23 Of course, Robert England had by this point played Freddy in seven movies and a TV series,
09:29 and so fans presumed and eagerly anticipated seeing England's Krueger and Hodder's Jason
09:34 butting heads in Ronnie Yu's 2003 picture.
09:38 After receiving the film's script and meeting with Yu, Kane Hodder was bafflingly left out
09:43 in the cold by the time Freddy vs Jason started shooting.
09:47 Fans were left with a bad taste in their mouth at being deprived of seeing the definitive
09:51 Jason Voorhees stepping up to take on Freddy Krueger.
09:55 2. A Flamethrower-Wielding, Chrome-Masked Ghost Face in Scream
10:00 To take one more trip to Woodsboro, this year's Scream left jaws agape when one of its trailers
10:05 showed a chrome-masked ghost face going berserk with a flamethrower.
10:10 At that point, audiences had zero idea how this was going to play into the plot of this
10:14 fifth Scream picture.
10:16 While the moment did technically appear in Scream, this particular money shot wasn't
10:21 actually a part of the antics of the latest set of ghost face killers who were terrorising
10:25 Woodsboro.
10:26 Instead, this bonkers version of the franchise's masked maniac was merely a ghost face from
10:30 Stab 8, as brilliantly briefly spotlighted by a cameo from Deadmeat's James A. Janisse
10:36 and Chelsea Rebecca as the two rip into this latest entry in the Stab series.
10:41 1. The Death of Dr. Loomis in the Halloween Franchise
10:46 Donald Pleasence's Dr. Samuel Loomis holds a special place in the heart of many a horror
10:50 hound, not to mention having outings in Rob Zombie's pair of Halloween pictures, as
10:55 played by Malcolm McDowell.
10:58 While McDowell's Loomis was seen stabbed to death by Michael at the close of Zombies
11:02 Halloween 2, the demise of Pleasence's Loomis is one of the missing key parts of the franchise.
11:08 In the Halloween H20 timeline, we're informed that the original iteration of Sam died of
11:13 a heart attack between movies.
11:15 For the canon of David Gordon Green's recent Halloween pictures, Loomis actually stopped
11:20 being Michael's doctor shortly after the events of the 1978 movie, and Sam would pass
11:25 away a little further down the line.
11:27 Regardless, Halloween fans never got to see the truly final battle between Sam Loomis
11:32 and his long-time obsession.
11:35 And that concludes our list. If you can think of any we missed, then do let us know in the
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