

The Watcher in the Woods
It was just an innocent game until a young girl vanished...for thirty years.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $9M
- Box office
- $5M
- Language
- English
- countryside
- country house
- supernatural
- solar eclipse
- halloween
- haunted house
- past
- based on young adult novel
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United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)PGNew York City17 Apr 1980
- TheatricalWide release of the revised version9 Oct 1981
- PhysicalPGWalt Disney Home Video #068 [VHS] 83 minutes18 Jul 1991
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG21 Aug 1981
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalG9 Jul 1981
CanadaCA
- PhysicalPGDVD2 Apr 2002
BrazilBR
- Theatrical143 Jul 1981
ChileCL
- TV20 Sept 1996
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP15 Sept 1982
GermanyDE
- TV127 Dec 1992
IrelandIE
- TheatricalPG3 Mar 1982
JapanJP
- TheatricalG11 Sept 1982
MexicoMX
- Theatrical13 Jul 1981
- TV16 May 1999
PhilippinesPH
- Theatrical19 Nov 1981
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The Watcher in the Woods was released on 17 April 1980.
Audience reviews
2- R5/10
r96sk
9/11/2020
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 elimi…
- W7/10
Wuchak
2/27/2022
_**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…
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