Walt Disney Productions' The Watcher in the Woods (1980) Trailer

Trailer for the 1980 mystery suspense horror film based on the novel of the same name Florence Engel Randall.Show more

Plot: A teenage girl tries to solve the mystery on what happened to a teenage girl thirty years ago during the same upcoming eclipse.

This was Walt Disney Productions' attempt at producing a horror film to reach the market then popular at the time that was started by The Exorcist. The original filmed ending had a science fiction identity for the Watcher but was later reshot in favor of an occult one.

Starring

Bette Davis as Mrs. Aylwood
Carroll Baker as Helen Curtis
David McCallum as Paul Curtis
Lynn-Holly Johnson as Jan Curtis
Kyle Richards as Ellie Curtis
Ian Bannen as John Keller
Richard Pasco as Tom Colley
Frances Cuka as Mary Fleming
Benedict Taylor as Mike Fleming
Eleanor Summerfield as Mrs. Thayer
Georgina Hale as Young Mrs. Aylwood
Katharine Levy as Karen Aylwood

Screenplay by Brian Clemens, Harry Spalding & Rosemary Anne Sisson

Directed by John Hough & Vincent McEveety

Release date April 17, 1980

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