Just how many endings does the 1980 Disney movie have?
Screen legend Bette Davis led Disney’s valiant but flawed attempt at the horror genre. The Watcher in the Woods began development in the late-1970s after the rights were secured to Florence Engel Randall’s young adult novel. Turmoil plagued the filming process with producers often intervening to tone down the movie much to the frustrations of director John Hough.
They were each present at a chapel for a test of courage in which Karen was blindfolded and seemingly vanished into thin air when a fire broke out. Davis portrays Mrs. Aylwood as suspicious too with a short temper and an uncomfortable magnetism to the Curtis daughters. The mystery the movie conjures up is genuinely compelling, and the near-constant suggestion that Jan is being followed makes everybody a suspect.
The Original Ending Had More Sci-Fi Elements but No One Liked it Hough’s original ending shoehorned in a more obvious sci-fi element. Hough intended to show the Watcher in its true form, as a flying insect-like alien who enters the chapel and attacks the group. The design was completed by Harrison Ellenshaw, and even Hough admitted he was disappointed by the design confessing that it undid all of his good work in the movie.
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