Rating: PG
Genre:
Thriller
Release Date: 08/03/2004
SubTitles: French/English
Dubbed: English/French/Espanol
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 83 Minutes
Flags: Mild Violence, Violence, Questionable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Walt Disney Video
This
Disney Studios attempt at entering the horror genre is a British production based on the chilling novel by
Florence Engel Randall. An American family, headed by composer Paul Curtis (
David McCallum) and his wife Helen (
Carroll Baker), is renting an old mansion in England. The mansion's owner is Mrs. Aylwood (
Bette Davis), who lives in a small guest house on the property. The mansion is surrounded by dense, forbidding woods. The Curtis children, Jan (
Lynn-Holly Johnson) and Ellie (
Kyle Richards), explore the forest. Mrs. Aylwood is continually searching the woods for her daughter -- whom she lost there 30 years ago. Over time, the children come to be haunted by the spirit of the daughter, Karen (
Katherine Levy). The film was originally released in 1980 with an ending that included a huge alien from another planet. The studio pulled back the film after test audiences laughed at the special effects, and re-released the movie in 1982 with a new ending that circumvented the alien.
~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
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