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Released
1980 · FILM

The Watcher in the Woods

“It was just an innocent game until a young girl vanished...for thirty years.”

Directed by
John Hough
Written by
Brian Clemens, Harry Spalding
Runtime
83 min
FamilyHorrorMystery
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

When an American family relocates to an old country manor in rural England, one of the daughters becomes haunted by the spirit of the owner's missing daughter, who vanished 30 years earlier during a solar eclipse.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Geoffrey FootShot by Alan HumeScored by Stanley MyersDesigned by Elliot Scott

Box Office

1980 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.6× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$5.0M

Budget$9.0M
Worldwide gross$5.0M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Schrei der Verlorenende
  • Schreie der Verlorenende
  • Les Yeux de la forêtfr
  • Gli occhi del parcoit

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