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The Watcher in the Woods (1982)

Director: John Hough

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From Time Out Film Guide

The horror movie, Disney-style. After an American couple and their two daughters move into an English country house, one of the girls (Johnson) imagines she is being watched by a creature that lurks in the woods. Her experiences seem to be linked to the disappearance, thirty years before, of another young girl, creepy old crone Davis' daughter. When it became obvious that the film's mix of cutesy sentiment and vague scariness wasn't working, the company ordered whole sequences to be rewritten, re-shot or re-edited, then imposed a stupid ending that explains precisely nothing.

Author: NF

Time Out Film Guide

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Cast & crew

Director: John Hough

Producer: Ron Miller

Cast: Bette Davis, Carroll Baker, David McCallum, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, Ian Bannen, Richard Pasco, Frances Cuka, Eleanor Summerfield, Georgina Hale full cast

Genre(s): Horror

Duration: 100 mins


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