Simultaneously, the eclipse ends, and Karen, still the same age as when she disappeared, reappears – still blindfolded. It engulfs Jan and lifts her into the air, but Mike intercedes and pulls her away before the Watcher disappears. The Watcher leaves Ellie's body, manifesting as a pillar of light, fueled by the "circle of friendship". In a voice that is not her own, she explains that an accidental switch took place thirty years ago, in which Karen traded places with an alien presence from an alternate dimension thus, the Watcher has been haunting the woods since, while Karen has remained suspended in time. At the chapel, the ceremony is interrupted by a powerful wind that shatters the windows, and Ellie appears. Meanwhile, Ellie, while watching the eclipse from the front yard, suddenly goes into a trance-like state, apparently possessed, and enters the woods. She gathers Mary, Tom, and John at the abandoned chapel, and they attempt to repeat the ceremony. Jan decides to recreate the ceremony during the upcoming solar eclipse, hoping it will bring Karen back. He claims that during a seance-like initiation ceremony on the night of a lunar eclipse, Karen vanished when lightning struck the church bell tower. On her way home, Jan cuts through the woods, where she encounters a local hermit, Tom Colley, who tells Jan he was also present at Karen's disappearance. Meanwhile, Jan attempts to get information from John Keller, a reclusive aristocrat who was also there that night, but he refuses to speak to her. Later, Mike discovers that his mother, Mary, was with Karen when she disappeared, but she evades his questions. Aylwood brings Jan and Ellie to her home, and recounts the night her daughter disappeared. In the water, she sees a blue circle of light, and is blinded by a flash, causing her to fall in she nearly drowns, but Mrs. Jan, realizing her sister has disappeared from the yard, goes into the woods to find her, eventually locating her at a pond. One afternoon, Nerak runs into woods, and Ellie chases after him. Aylwood's missing daughter by Mike Fleming, the teenage son of a local woman, Mary. After seeing the reflection of the name "Nerak" (Karen spelled backwards), Jan is told about the mystery of Mrs. Shortly after the family settles in, Ellie goes to buy a puppy she inexplicably names "Nerak". On one occasion, she sees the apparition of a blindfolded girl in a mirror in front of her. Jan senses something unusual about the property almost immediately, and begins to see strange blue lights in the woods, triangles, and glowing objects. Aylwood, the owner of the residence who now lives in the guest house next door, notices that Jan bears a striking resemblance to her daughter, Karen, who disappeared inside an abandoned chapel in the woods thirty years earlier. A television remake of the same name starring Anjelica Huston was released in 2017.Īmericans Helen and Paul Curtis and their daughters, Jan and Ellie, move into a manor in rural England. Though critical response to the film was varied and included numerous unfavorable reviews, the film went on to garner a cult following in the years following its release. Disney re-released the revised cut of the film on October 9, 1981, and it grossed $5 million. Several changes were made thereafter, including the excision of a pre-credits sequence, as well the filming of an entirely new ending, which was directed by Vincent McEveety without Hough's involvement. The film had its premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City in April 1980, but was pulled from release after ten days, and future screenings were canceled by the studio due to an overwhelming negative response from critics and audiences. Based on the 1976 novel by Florence Engel Randall, the film tells the story of a teenage girl and her little sister who become encompassed in a supernatural mystery regarding a missing girl in the woods surrounding their new home in the English countryside.įilmed at Pinewood Studios and the surrounding areas in Buckinghamshire, England, The Watcher in the Woods was one of several live-action films produced by Walt Disney Productions in the 1980s, when the studio was targeting young adult audiences.
The Watcher in the Woods is a 1980 American supernatural horror film directed by John Hough and Vincent McEveety and starring Bette Davis, Carroll Baker, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards, and David McCallum. For the 2017 remake of the same title, see The Watcher in the Woods (2017 film).Ī Watcher in the Woodsby Florence Engel Randall
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