Ted Newsom wrote:
According to Albert Band, UA forced the denouement on them. They (supposedly) insisted that audiences wouldn't buy a supernatural explanation. Phooey.


  
I suspect that UA execs weren't afraid of a supernatural ending as much as they were leery of a downbeat one. In the original ending, Richard Boone's "victims" rise up from their graves to exact vengeance on him. That's pretty far out for a 50s genre film when sympathetic heroes didn't usually suffer from such grim fates unless they were werewolves or else found themselves attached to the head of a fly.

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