The poster was marketing and was created early in production. this is akin to criticizing Alien because there wasn’t an egg that cracked open with a light that came out. Its marketing. I enjoyed the film. It has a camp charm and the actors do a great job with their characters. Dwan was always...
I had the poster as well. At the time, my only disappointments were 1) they didn’t use animation 2) there was only the snake and no dinosaurs. Dino did want to hire David Allen for doing some stop motion animation for dinosaurs but Allen signed with the Universal film (which got cancelled)...
Contrary to others, I do like the artwork which just takes the top of the original poster, flips it and cuts it off at the chest. The overseas cover was awful.