I don't think that it is another bear, it's kind of grey. Maybe a rat?
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Voila!!
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And, just in case you want to compare him to Katahdin:
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It looks like Mr. Ed, gone horribly wrong!
Gamera is really neat! He is made from turtle meat! We've been eating Gamera!
I'm fairly certain this is a still of the creature at the end:
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Open the pod bay doors, Hal.
There was, Samuri5. It was the mutant cubs' father! Which makes zoological sense as male bears are always driven off by the females once mating is successfully accomplished.
Speaking of which, do any folklorists from Maine know whether or not "Katahdin" was actually a composite of the Pamola and Gici Awas legends?
I have a picture but I have no idea how to upload it onto imdb... sorry. Basically it looks like another bear and is supposed to be the father bear.
shareIn David Seltzer's novelization, at the end a park ranger is looking out from a tower (from what I remember he had been drinking) and sees the creature. The implication being that this mutation has become the next stage in evolution (for these bears at least).
You can't palm off a second-rater on me. You gotta remember I was in the pink!
I always wanted to the read the sleeping bag part in the novel, I heard it was way scarier. Can anyone describe it to me?
shareHaven't read the novel in a long time, but it was very graphic. I think the little boy hears the monster devouring his sister. It's night and very dark, so he hears his sister's blood and gore, dripping down onto the soil. The creature then kills the boy. If I remember correctly, the mom is also there, she and dad get it too. The mom was not in the movie version.
In the novel, the creature also has bat-like wings, but I don't remember if it uses them.
That was the promise of a sequel, same way another alligator comes tumbling down in the sewer at the end of Alligator and numerous other movies, even from the '60s, popped up a '. . . . ?' after 'The End' again, in hopes of a continuation to their movie.
I for one have always enjoyed when the promise of more of this horrible movie doesn't come about.
The thing at the end was the scarier of the two monsters. When I saw it when I was 8 I about crapped my pants at the end seeing that creature. To me the last creature looked like a mix of a gigantic bird/ rat mix. What ever it was it scared me.
THX, Kris L. CocKayne
A sequel bait ending is what it's called.
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