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The Watcher in the Woods

The Watcher in the Woods

5,9 /10 (156 Votes)
1980 EN 83 min

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.

Release date

17/04/1980

Votes

156

Popularity

2.4

It was just an innocent game until a young girl vanished...for thirty years.

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

83 min

Budget

$9,000,000

Revenue

$5,000,000

Original Soundtrack

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r96sk

r96sk

2020-09-11

⭐ 5

Oh so very boring. <em>'The Watcher in the Woods'</em> isn't necessarily a terrible film, but wow did I feel completely uninterested from (almost) start-to-finish. Dully told plot with a plain cast list. I couldn't, unfortunately, tell you anything I actually found good about this. Lynn-Holly Johnson (Jan), a year prior to her appearance in James Bond, is the standout, but that's only down to a process of elimination to be honest; I found the rest yawnful. They aren't helped by the writing which fails to captivate how supposedly heavy the premise is, it's all basically as it seems - obvi…

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Wuchak

Wuchak

2022-02-27

⭐ 7

_**This ain’t no conventional Disney flick; it’s genuinely eerie**_ An American family moves into an English country manor for the summer while the mysterious owner, Mrs. Aylwood (Bette Davis), lives in the guest house. The teen daughter, Jan (Lynn-Holly Johnson), discerns something weird is going on, which is linked to Mrs. Aylwood's missing daughter, Karen (Katharine Levy), from decades earlier. Jan investigates the mystery with the aid of a neighbor (Benedict Taylor) and her younger sister (Kyle Richards). Carroll Baker & David McCallum play the girls' parents. "The Watcher in the Wo…

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