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The Watcher in the Woods
The Watcher in the Woods

5.9

The Watcher in the Woods

PG·1980·83m

Summary

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.

Crew

Director

John Hough

Novel

Florence Engel Randall

Screenplay

Brian Clemens

Screenplay

Harry Spalding

Screenplay

Rosemary Anne Sisson

Writer

Gerry Day

Reviews

r96sk

r96sk

September 11, 2020

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 - obvious. I should've cared for Mrs. Aylwood (Bette Davis) but I simply didn't feel attached one bit.

It is a weird one due to it not, as noted, doing anything massively negative, it's just the fact that the (short) run time is such a chore to get through. Not one I'd recommend.

Media

Status:

Released

Original Language:

English

Budget:

$9,000,000.00

Revenue:

$5,000,000.00

Keywords

countryside
country house
supernatural
solar eclipse
haunted house
past
based on young adult novel