In the final moments of The Strangers: Prey at Night, we catch up with survivors Kinsey and Luke at the hospital some time after Kinsey seemed to kill off the Man in the Mask, but one final little stinger suggests that the masked maniac may not be dead after all. Kinsey is startled by a knock at the door, and we never do find out who is on the other side.
An alternate ending included with the home video release is a bit different, as Kinsey opens the door and looks out into the hallway. There’s nobody there, but the hallway lights begin to shut off one by one, and you can hear an ax dragging across the floor in the darkness. The suggestion, of course, is that the Man in the Mask is still alive. Kinsey screams in terror.
But there was another alternate ending shot for The Strangers: Prey at Night that we haven’t yet seen. Images shared by actor William Willet highlight this never-before-seen alternate sequence, wherein Willet played a doctor. Presumably, based on the photos, it was to be the doctor who knocked at the door, with the Man in the Mask not far behind.
It’s clear from looking at the photos that the Man in the Mask comes up behind the doctor and kills him in this ending, and we can only assume he then enters Kinsey’s room to kill her too.
Here’s hoping we someday get to actually see this deleted scene in full!
