Viewers are left to experience the non-verbal, mystical vastness of the film, and to subjectively reach into their own subconscious and into the film""s pure imagery to speculate about its meaning.]The creepy film ended with the devil""s flesh-and-blood baby being cared for by the mother! The incredible irony of the film was that the plot would be similarly played out a year later - Polanski""s pregnant actress/wife Sharon Tate would be terrorized and murdered by the strange cult of Charles Manson followers in her Benedict Canyon home.When it unexpectedly pops open, he screeches and scurries o hide.Elliott drops the milk carton on the kitchen floor and clutches his chest as they simultaneously experience surprise and fright.When he threatened to drain Sulu""s life energy, Ensign Syl was coerced into relinquishing it.She had hidden it behind finger-like spikes in the back of her skull.Krall placed the Abronath in the middle of a ring-shaped device (within a dark liquid) in his tech-room, where it began to glow red.Earlier, the fictional, epic-length soap operaNorth and South (1985), with stars Patrick Swayze, Robert Mitchum, Kirstie Alley, Johnny Cash, Gene Kelly, Hal Holbrook - and others, and based on John Jake""s best-selling novels, was the astonishing attempt of a TV mini-series (at over 1200 minutes) to recapture the scope of the ante-bellum period, in its story of two families during he Civil War era -- the Hazard family of Pennsylvania and the Main family of South Carolina.