The Watcher in the Woods
- IMDb link: 0081738
- IMDb rating: 6.2 (7,815 votes)
- Genres: Horror, Thriller, Family, Mystery
- Director: Vincent McEveety, John Hough
- Cast: Bette Davis, Carroll Baker, Lynn-Holly Johnson, Kyle Richards and others
- Release date: 9 Oct 1981
- Release year: 1980
- Runtime: 84 minutes
- Country: United Kingdom, United States
- Keywords: teenage girl, eclipse, lightning, female protagonist, writing backwards, mirror, woods, pond, chapel, missing person
Plot:
The musician Paul Curtis travels to the countryside with his wife, the writer of child books Helen Curtis, his teenage daughter Jan Curtis and his young daughter Ellie Curtis, to visit an isolated house in the woods owned by Mrs. Aylwood. He rents the house and his daughters, who are sensitive girls, see something strange in the woods and in the house. Soon Jan learns that Mrs. Aylwood's daughter Karen has gone missing thirty years ago while playing blindfolded in the church with her friends John Keller, Tom Colley and Mary Fleming. Further, it seems that she is trying to contact Ellie and her while strange things happen.