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* ''[[Blade Runner]]'': The original theatrical release featured Deckard and Rachael driving a car to happiness and freedom through lush green hills. This ending is a jarring non sequitur: implausible and theme-negating in a dystopian future-noir film. It's the direct product of a test audience screening. Oddly, the sequence is unused footage from the start of ''[[The Shining]]''.
* ''[[Brazil (film)|Brazil]]'': The omission of the original ending, in which {{spoiler|Lowry's escape was revealed to be a delusion after he broke under torture.}}
* The movie version of the musical ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' originally retained the [[Downer Ending]] in which Audrey and Seymour are killed and Audrey II begins its spectacular conquest of Earth to the tune of the song "Don't Feed the Plants". This went over so badly with test audiences that much of the final section of the film—from Audrey II trying to eat her onward—was reshot and recut to change things to a happier ending; the original finale had to be jettisoned altogether. This ending was restored in the "[[Director's Cut]]"
* Sam Raimi's ''[[Evil Dead|Army of Darkness]]'' had its original ending (where Ash oversleeps after taking a sleeping potion and awakens in a post-apocalyptic future) changed after negative test audience reaction. A new ending was reshot and used for the theatrical release. Fortunately the new ending was just as silly and awesome as the rest of the movie.
** ''Army of Darkness'' could actually be considered an inversion; the original ending is a jarring [[Downer Ending]], whereas the theatrical ending is closer in tone to the rest of the movie and generally fits better. The fact that this was the last movie in the series and gives Ash a relatively happy ending surely helps.
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