Info
Year: | 1980 |
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Original Title: | The Watcher in the Woods |
Length: | 80 minutes |
Genre: | Horror, Fantasy |
Studios: | Walt Disney Pictures |
Distributor: | Walt Disney Pictures |
Release Dates
United Kingdom: August 26 1981
United States: April 17 1980
Ranking
Ranking: 3,900 out of 16,237 movies (up 2389)
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Plot
The Curtis family looks for a house to rent in England while their patriarch Paul, a music composer, conducts an opera. The family is shown a secluded manor house owned by the eccentric Mrs. Aylwood, who lives in a small cottage on the property, set on the edge of a forest. While investigating the manor, youngest daughter Ellie Curtis is drawn to a bedroom overlooking the woods. Jan, the eldest daughter, looks out a window in the adjoining bedroom, and sees a blue glow in the forest as the window shatters. Mrs. Aylwood believes Jan is "sensitive" to signs, and decides to rent to the family. Ellie starts to listen, and Jan starts to see, a young teenage girl who mysteriously disappeared during a total solar eclipse decades before...