Rotten
The acting and writing are barely professional but the art direction, especially Alan Hume's stunning camerawork, gives the pic a gloss.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Watcher in the Woods
It was just an innocent game until a young girl vanished...for thirty years.
1980 · 1h 23m · PG
Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Directed by
John Hough
Overview
After an American family moves to an old country manor in rural England, one of the daughters is tormented by the spirit of the owner's long lost daughter, who mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago during a solar eclipse.
Director and cast
- John Hough Director
- Bette Davis as Mrs. Aylwood
- Lynn-Holly Johnson as Jan Curtis
- Kyle Richards as Ellie Curtis
- Carroll Baker as Helen Curtis
- David McCallum as Paul Curtis
- Benedict Taylor as Mike Fleming
- Frances Cuka as Mary Fleming
- Richard Pasco as Tom Colley
- Ian Bannen as John Keller
- Katharine Levy as Karen Aylwood
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
50%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Time Out
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