Roll Out! (Partly Lost 1973 CBS Sitcom)

Does any horror fan remember the cult classic slasher film, Pieces? In case you don't know what the film focuses on; it's about a young boy who murders his mother years back, during the second World War over a pornographic puzzle he had found. Fast forward to forty years later, the boy is now grown and decides to make his dream come true by killing a bunch of girls on a college campus to hopefully create a human jigsaw puzzle out of his own mother. Crazy stuff, huh?

There had been a rumor around about an alternative ending to this movie that was shot, but then it was scrapped at the last minute for being "too frightening". Spoilers ahead of the original, you have been warned: the original ending had the Dean shot dead for trying to escape from his home because he was tracked down as the killer. Shortly after his demise, the corpse consisting of human body parts stumbles out of the closet and lands on top of Kendall (one of the college students' who becomes part of the police program), terrifying him. Once everyone has left the scene except for Kendall, he goes to grab his jacket, but is then castrated by the corpse. The alternate ending commences within the same scene but it's halfway into the castration, when the Dean comes back to life; a earsplitting screech accompanies the scene along with the Dean giving a chilling death stare. The scene immediately goes back to reality; revealing that the whole scenario was just a hallucination in Kendall's mind.

Shaken, he immediately snatches the jacket from the corpse, looking back at it for one last time - but it doesn't spring to life. Shortly after this, he scampers out of the room through the door everyone left in and slams it shut; at this point, the camera has also shifted away from the corpse with just the shot of Kendall leaving in a hurry to have no one find out who was behind this. As soon as the camera pans away, it shows one final shot of the Dean's room - but this time the corpse has actually disappeared. It then shows another shot of the now-completed jigsaw puzzle as the camera zooms into it; implying that those who have watched the scene, movie or are reading this, are next. The screen then fades to black and the film ends.

Juan Piquer Simon did not like this idea of having a film ending so terrifying and weak, that it was either supposed to have been played out seriously or just as a joke, so the alternate ending was scrapped. There are rumors that the film containing this conclusion had been destroyed after all these years, but it still lurks out there somewhere... for those "who exactly what you think" this ending had once been...