At the end of the film, "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" finally meets his demise in an enormous explosion. For Sioux City and the other small towns the production filmed in, the day of this explosion was a major event.
"We had a peanut gallery from all the different cities in the neighborhood," Kiersch recalled in "Harvesting Horror," saying the audience had pickup trucks, lawn chairs, and picnic blankets. Adds Corey Frizzell, one of the film's featured child actors: "For the Siouxlanders, there was a lot of excitement."
Frizzell recalls a lot of hubbub in the area leading up to the big event. "The night of the explosion they had several wind machines, some fire trucks," he recalls, "and a lot of crew scrambling around of this scene."
The explosion took most of the day to set up, and multiple cameras were on standby, as they only had the opportunity for one take. It turned out well; Kiersch remembers that the explosion resulted in a "ten-story fireball."
"I don't think anyone was disappointed," Gaines says. "It was a pretty cool mushroom effect explosion."
Corey Frizzell, however, ended up missing the excitement. As he would recall years later, his mom had a lengthy conversation with Linda Hamilton as they were all waiting for the explosion, and he fell asleep in his mother's lap.
