Director: John Hough // Starring: Lynn-Holly Johnson & Bette Davis

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Bryan and Dave are joined by Teri Gamble of the Horror Movie Survival Guide podcast to talk about Disney's bizarro 80's period where they experimented with more mature films resulting in one of their most easily-forgotten titles, The Watcher in the Woods. At one time, Disney producers and executives were convinced that this was going to be their finest hour, a horror movie to rival The Exorcist. Nowadays, if it's remembered at all, it's remembered for not making a whole lot of sense and having been pulled from theaters for extensive reshoots and two endings that had to be thrown out.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DFacqQp8uw

Watcher in the Woods original ending A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkpf2IzmMVg

Watcher in the Woods original ending B: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj7BTISeq7E

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