After putting the bear out of its misery, he returned to town and confronted the sole surviving hunter telling his sordid tale in a bar.They shared a group delusion - a nightmarish "boogeyman" - and were so traumatized that they would do anything to avoid sleep.Following the film""s production, it was severely edited by the studio and producer Phil Feldman (in Peckinpah""s absence), cutting its length by about twenty minutes - remarkably, none of he excised film was violent.They watched as he was consumed by the burning fire, and his face in the flames resembled a monstrous devil, his true self(# 5 death).