I remember reading the script a long time ago and remember the cancerous steak and the corpse in the mirror. I still love the crawling steak in the film. It was like the ghosts were playing with Marty .. "You want your steak?" ... "Here's your steak .... hahahahaha!!!"
The book though offers so much more torment. The steak, the maggots, the face ripping is all there... what followed was Marty being suspended in mid-air while millions of spiders emerge from the dark corners of the kitchen and crawl all over him and begin to devour him. This is followed by hungry rats and worms ... they eat his flesh right down to the bone. It was all a hallucination of course but then when the ghosts/demons come down the stairs and begin to parade before the Freelings and the para-psycologists in the living room, Marty runs scared to the bathroom and that's when he has another hallucination where he is overcome by the Beast. They really didn't like him ..LOL and you truly understand why he doesn't come back to the house.
All of this would have been hard to visualize effectively in 1982, although I am certain "Industrial Light and Magic" would have come up with something fantastic but surely these scenes would have pushed this film to R-rated territory that Speilberg never would have been able to appeal and I do not think they wanted to take that chance.
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The_Film_Cricket
9 years ago
Yeah, That comes up when he's running back through the kitchen after the face peeling.
There's another scene later after Marty returns from his nightmare in the kitchen (apparently it was all a dream). While the family watches the spirits in the living room, Marty runs down the hall to the bathroom. There he sees his hands melting and then watches as he turns into a hideous humanoid creature with scales and a hump back. He goes insane and then returns to the living room without any clothes on. Dr. Lesh later tells Diane that he has packed up and flown home.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SIqPQnchSQ
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