Temporarily ""undead"" Jack had thrown his own secretly-stolen coin to Will, to deposit for him in the chest, to lift the curse and return himself to being mortal.The remarkable film was greeted with the same kind of fanfare that Sam Peckinpah""s violentThe Wild Bunch (1969)received many years later.The Second Day:The next day while riding his bicycle into the woods high up above his house, Elliott scatters bits of Hershey""s Reese""s Pieces (like small, round, and colorful pills) on the forest ground, possibly to locate, feed and befriend the creature or to lead the hungry creature to his home with the sweet path of chocolates.She promised Freeze that they would rule: "For we will be the only two people left in the world" - "Adam and Evil.This one came way before absurdist spoofs likeAirplane! (1980)andThe Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988).