There are 4 different endings of ‘The Butterfly Effect’ Have you seen all of them? Let’s check it out.
The Butterfly Effect’s theatrical ending is somewhat happy, while Evan and love interest Kayleigh don’t end up together, both live happy lives separately. The film is already an extremely dark film, but the director’s cut manages to make things even darker.
The first Alternate Ending, same as Theatrical Ending, only Evan turns and follows Kayleigh.
Same as Alternate Ending 1 only Evan and Kayleigh talk to each other.
Evan makes a desperate attempt to change the timeline by watching a family video, which shows his mother just before she was about to give birth to Evan. He travels back to that moment and strangles himself in the womb with his umbilical cord so as to prevent the multi-generational curse from continuing, consistent with an added scene where a psychic palm reader tells Evan “you have no lifeline” and that he does “not belong to this world”. Kayleigh is then seen as a child in the new timeline having chosen to live with her mother instead of her father, and a montage suggests that the lives of the other childhood characters have become loving and less tragic.