Does anybody else get teary-eyed when Carol Anne ...
moves through Diane's soul on the staircase? It's such a beautiful moment and JoBeth Williams acts the hell out of it. I still think she deserved an Oscar nomination.
They cut an entire scene upstairs where Marty gets bitten and traumatized some more because the downstairs scene was just too well done. the scariest they could do after that was the noise coming down the stairs and knocking everybody over.