He disclosed that he had determined that the Joker had tainted hundreds of basic chemicals at their source, and combinations of chemicals when mixed were deadly - it wasn""t just individual products that were the problem.Although she placed the block and tackle rope noose around his neck, suspended him in mid-air, rolled him out of the hayloft window, and hanged him, he didn""t die!As he was hanging in front of her at the barn door, he unmasked himself, and she recognized him as her mutant tormentor from two years earlier: "It""s you!" She appeared doomed, and shrieked as he lowered himself from the noose and approached with his machete, but she was saved when biker Ali, who had survived from the brutal bludgeoning with a monkey-wrench, grabbed him from behind: "Get off of her!" -- but the maniacal killer turned and sliced off Ali""s right hand with his machete and then finished him off by repeatedly hacking at him(# 12 death)(off-screen).According to Frank, "they say he""s got wads of money.He and Mildred are supposed to be engaged...Well, if they""re not, they soon will be." When Mildred and Arthur walk by, Alice feigns amusement to appear happy, silly and amused.To her horror, Arthur notices her bedraggled bouquet and delivers it to her with a smile.A tiny, vulnerable figure in the distance, Alice is left alone in the hallway, as she watches a roomful of couples dancing beyond her.Enos urged Annie to "quit now" and then told her that two kids had been brutally murdered there in 1958, a young boy had drowned there in 1957 (both unsolved cases), and there were unexplained fires.Its director-writer team of Paul Verhoeven (known for earlier filmsRobocop (1987)andTotal Recall (1990)and thenShowgirls (1995)) and Joe Eszterhas (known forJagged Edge (1985)) created this exploitative, soft-porn, excessive, controversial film known for its negative portrayal of lesbianism, violence, initial X-rating, and voyeuristic, sensational, gratuitous sex.