The Breakfast Club: The Director's Alternative Version

The Breakfast Club: The Director's Alternative Version is an alternate cut of the 1985 John Hughes film The Breakfast Club. This cut is radically different from the original and focuses on a more black comedy, shock humor and extremely violent approach to the main story.

The character of Allison Reynolds, the basket case, was dramatically changed. Unlike in the original cut, Allison exacts revenge against every remark, gesture or insult thrown her way, which leads to her killing everybody in the room and present at the school. She is extremely murderous as opposed to the introverted outcast she was in the final cut.

This rough cut of the movie still exists as a high quality VHS dub that can be found as a torrent and is heavily sought-after. Universal Pictures rejected this cut due to the excessive amounts of gore and violence.

Changes
The changes are as follows:
 * An extended version of the "the clock is twenty minutes fast" scene, which becomes crucial to the main change of the rough cut. In this, Carl the janitor predicts where the five students will be in the future. Carl calls Allison "Miss Sensitive" and flat out says, "You'll become a poet. Pretty fuckin' great. Nobody gives a shit.", implying Allison would become a good poet but nobody would care. The Miss Sensitive remark angers Allison to the point of threatening Carl at gunpoint to leave or be killed, in which he frantically states he takes it back and leaves.
 * The deleted scene in which Allison locks herself in a room and sings the Phil Ochs song "My Life" is radically changed. Instead of singing the song, she writes a manifesto to issue to Principal Vernon. The manifesto is narrated by Allison as she writes it. The scene is approximately ten minutes long and when it was test screened the audience complained it was too long. The version online seems to have the scene slightly longer. The manifesto demands that Vernon take into consideration why she and the others act in the ways he considers wrong, and orders he and Carl to quit the insults otherwise they would both be executed at point blank on the front steps of Shermer High.
 * Claire's remark of "You are such a bitch!" after Allison reveals she lied about her "nymphomaniac" story leads into the climax of the rough cut; Allison killing almost everybody within Shermer High. Allison shoots Claire first. Andrew fights the gun off of her, and accidentally fires at her. Only getting the outer skin of the jaw and the bullet pretty much falling out, Allison bashes Andrew in the head, knocking him unconscious. Allison goes after Bender next, attempting to crack his skull with the gun barrel, she shoots and kills him instantly in the head. Brian, the sole survivor, manages to escape and heads on a train to Tampa, Florida. Allison blows Andrew's brains out while he is still knocked out. Vernon immediately hides under his desk after hearing the gunshots, having heard the screams of the other four. Allison eventually finds him, however she finds rope. Also gathering Carl, Allison hangs the both of them, but not before reminding them of what drove her to do it. After they die, Allison piles the five bodies in the janitor's closet. Shermer High School had spring break, and thus nobody returned to the school for weeks or even months. The bodies were discovered in advanced decomposition (this is alluded to but not seen) and the stench had gone through the entirety of the school. Allison's body after she had committed suicide on the front steps was discovered only hours after the fact, however police and ambulance didn't check inside the school. It is implied that Allison got away scot-free as Brian doesn't mention the incident at all during a brief scene of him in Tampa.
 * Allison is noticeably angrier and actually did something to get in; she spray-painted threats to murder Vernon all over the school.