Jan 30th
The Watcher in the Woods**
GB 1980/81. Walt Disney. 83m(revised version).
An American family renting an old house is threatened by a malevolent force in the woods of a girl who has disappeared.
Scary children's ghost story, an uncertain mixture of horror and cutesy sentiment, with the latter wisely dispensed with by the end (three of them, as on the American DVD release). A Disney curio, that if made a few years later would happily have fitted under their Miramax/Touchstone banner.
Written by: Brian Clemens, Harry Spaulding, Rosemary Anne Sisson, from the novel by Florence Engel Randall.
Producer: Ron Miller.
Director: John Hough (and Vincent McEveety).
Starring: Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, Carroll Baker, David McCallum, Ian Bannen, Richard Pasco, Benedict Taylor, Frances Cuka.
Photography: Alan Hume.
Music: Stanley Myers.
Production Design: Eliot Scott.
The Watcher in the Woods**
GB 1980/81. Walt Disney. 83m(revised version).
An American family renting an old house is threatened by a malevolent force in the woods of a girl who has disappeared.
Scary children's ghost story, an uncertain mixture of horror and cutesy sentiment, with the latter wisely dispensed with by the end (three of them, as on the American DVD release). A Disney curio, that if made a few years later would happily have fitted under their Miramax/Touchstone banner.
Written by: Brian Clemens, Harry Spaulding, Rosemary Anne Sisson, from the novel by Florence Engel Randall.
Producer: Ron Miller.
Director: John Hough (and Vincent McEveety).
Starring: Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, Carroll Baker, David McCallum, Ian Bannen, Richard Pasco, Benedict Taylor, Frances Cuka.
Photography: Alan Hume.
Music: Stanley Myers.
Production Design: Eliot Scott.
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