The Watcher in the Woods
When a family moves to an English country manor, the young girls experience strange happenings that have a link to an occult event years past. The siblings then learn their eerie landlady's secret...
29 June 1928, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK
13 December 1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA
18 April 1960, London, England, UK
1961, Hampstead, London, England, UK
21 August 1936, London, England, UK
5 April 1908, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
11 January 1969, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 July 1926, Barnes, London, England, UK
4 August 1943, Ilford, Essex, England, UK
18 June 1956, London, England, UK
19 September 1933, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
7 March 1921, St. Pancras, London, England, UK
25 September 1958, London, England, UK
28 May 1931, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA
1933, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
July 25, 2002
Fans of old-fashioned, atmospheric ghost tales will forgive the film's obvious faults, but even they will have a hard time generating much enthusiasm for the movie.
January 26, 2006
When it became obvious that the film's mix of cutesy sentiment and vague scariness wasn't working, the company ordered whole sequences to be rewritten, re-shot or re-edited, then imposed a stupid ending that explains precisely nothing.
December 28, 2004
Creepy later-Bette Davis tale.
March 10, 2002
A movie about how a camera presents a point of view and of how that point of view, if it's not attached to a specific identity, can become menacingly voyeuristic.
August 03, 2004
Horror-Lite.
October 17, 2007
The acting and writing are barely professional but the art direction, especially Alan Hume's stunning camerawork, gives the pic a gloss.
February 23, 2016
Dated Disney horror tale has occult themes, mild scares.
March 19, 2003
Decent but unsophisticated ghost story, best suited for young adults.
September 14, 2005
About as scary as a bagel that's been left out on the counter overnight. Okay, maybe it's a raisin bagel. I'll give you that much.
October 17, 2007
This tepid ghost story fails to focus on either its story or its target audience.
