5. Paranormal Activity – Katie (And Micah) Meant To Die In A Couple Of Gruesome Ways
When Paramount acquired Paranormal Activity, the studio developed a couple of new endings because they thought the original one sucked. The ending you saw in cinemas had Katie (Katie Featherston) looking creepily at the camera before disappearing. What you didn’t know was that there were originally three different alternative endings – two of which feature Katie dying in some pretty gruesome ways.
The first original ending before Paramount got hold of the film involved the police discovering a dead Micah (Micah Sloat) and a knife-wielding Katie. Upon trying to get her to drop the knife, she suddenly attacks and the police shoot her dead.
The second Paramount ending was a far more gruesome affair. Katie gets possessed and kills Micah with a knife off-camera. After some silence, a blood-covered Katie returns and approaches the camera before slitting her own throat and collapsing. The third ending originally had Katie bludgeoning Micah to death with the camera, but it wasn’t filmed due to complications with getting the cinematography right.
After a few screenings featuring the throat-slitting Paramount ending, the studio quickly realized that they may have a new horror franchise on their hands and quickly re-released the film with the ‘Katie lives’ conclusion.
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