Alternative Ending: Cigarette Burns
After the death of Kirby, local investigators decide to close his theater establishment. As Timpson makes his last rounds around the theater, he is overcome by a strange feeling. He begins to suspect that he has forgotten something in the back office. Rushing back towards the room, he trips and takes a hard fall to the floor. As he picks his body off the ground, his attention focuses on a missing floorboard. As he crawls towards the hole, a cold chill creeps up his spine. Overcome by an impulse to look inside, he hears the police calling from the chained doors. Not wanting to attract attention from the police, he quickly jumps to his feet. That night, trying to clear his mind of both Kirby's death and what he had found that afternoon, he drifts into a deep sleep. As he slips in and out of dreams, he begins to see flashes of a round object, but what it is exactly he can't seem to make out. Suddenly, he is violently awakened by it. Trying harder to figure out what it is, he realizes that it is simply a cigarette burn. The next morning, Timpson arrives at the theater, slips through the chained doors and runs towards the missing floorboard. Reaching inside, he pulls out the first thing he feels, a reel of film. The movie now shows a flashback of Kirby secretly making a second copy of the movie. Before handing it over to the film critic, Kirby had duplicated the film in hopes that he would be able to add to his "assets". Looking for a safe hiding place, he slipped it under a loose floorboard in the theater. The movie switches back to Timpson who is in the back office. Sitting in front of the screen, he finds himself watching the most horrific thing that he has ever seen. He cannot shut it off even though every inch of his body is screaming for him to turn away. Desperately trying to fight his own actions, his eyes focus on the main character. He realizes that this person is Kirby! Kirby locks eyes with Timpson and screams in agony for him to put an end to this, something Kirby should have done himself. It was as if Kirby's soul was stuck in the film. Pulling himself away, Timpson is in a desperate pursuit to destroy it. He grabs a lighter and every flammable substance he can find. Dousing every inch of the theater, he realizes that he is forgetting something. He too has been infected with the poison of this film. The only way to stop the evil was to destroy everything that it had infected, including his own life. The movie ends with the theater being engulfed by a storm of flames. The audience comes to the realization that it is in fact possible to sell your soul to the devil. And that is exactly what the audience of "Le Fin Absolue de Monde" had done.