I love how the creature just waddles away at the end its kinda funny, but that creature was very disgusting and terrifyingly awesome 👍

About Giger's drawings, I don't know exactly if the producers first planned to put them onto screen and if there were really made from some lines of the script and if the swiss artist injected some personal touch indeed as for his current organic landscapes made for his usual, personal paintings. The ghostly worm was an early concept of the Smoke beast, inspirated by blood fluke; probably, the director wished for the early appearence of the Beast, as later with Taylor, a less impressive, more ectoplasmic shape. The Great Beast was intended to reverse and to open its body and innards as a big inverted cross and on a behind the scene pic, you can see the Beast upside, but I don't know if a later stage was intended to follow then. Indeed the novelization, I don't really remember of really big differences from the movie, excepted a longest discovery scene of the several chambers of the cave with grisly corpses, and a scene indeed the desert with the indian wizard and Steve Freeling about his initiation to the occult forces.

0:29 Stay Puft in the backround!

Really good job, one of the best effects of the movie,

It's an amazing movie with fabulous scene. What was the originla ending? I read the novelization, I don't really remember of an alternate ending?

Too bad that budget for SFX was abruptly cut in the middle of pre production. I'd had loved to see the ending as it was planned.

I haven't read the novelization! Is it good? On the script sent to HR Giger, there was a scene in the entrace to the other side, that was a tunel made with arms, bones and worms; and the Great Beast evolves into a massive living landscape that covers the other side. Also, there was a ghostly giant worm, changing into a series of weird visions of monsters and decapitated heads (the heads of Kane's followers). You can find the artwork for those scenes in the book "HR Giger's Films Designs".

then all of sudden Chris Reeve pops up! Bwaha!

don t you have the full show?only 1:29?could you post the whole show?

In watching Poltergeist II, I found myself constantly wondering if these guys were even trying. What a pathetic sequel to a classic movie.