Spoilers in this article. Obviously.
In Christopher Landon’s Happy Death Day, college student Tree Gelbman gets stuck in a time loop that forces her to relive the night of her murder over and over again… until she can figure out the identity of her killer and, in doing so, close the loop. She does just that in the final act, realizing that her roommate Lori is the true killer. After killing Lori, Tree wakes up in her own bed to the wonderful realization that she has closed the loop.
But in the original ending for Happy Death Day, which test audiences rejected, Tree wakes up in the hospital after killing Lori. It’s there that a nurse comes in and injects Tree with something that immediately flatlines her; as it turns out, the nurse is actually the vengeful wife of Dr. Butler, who Tree had been having an affair with.
“Did you really think you’d get away with screwing my husband?” Dr. Butler’s wife asks Tree, before killing her off for good. Yes, the movie ended with Tree dying!
This ending was thrown in the trash after it was rejected by test audiences, but it can be viewed on the just-released DVD and Blu-ray discs. Check it out below!
