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BERGENPASSAICHUDSON COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY THE RECORD, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1980 Entertainment: We're in the top six because of our great taste. And yours. Disney thriller lacks originality threads that pull her into the past, Jan sets out to re-create the events of that chilling eve. When the payoff arrives, however, it is filled with absurdities rather than an- lloies LJ i 8- 5 i i rf a. jf Hi UJ XT I- It Jim Wright Lf Walt Disney Productions, long a pioneer in family entertainment, now finds itself in the unenviable position of making films that imitate rather than innovate.

Last December's "The Black Hole" represented the studio's belated effort to join the space-fantasy bandwagon. Now arrives "The Watcher in the Woods," a rather thin variation on the all-too-familiar supernatural formula that "The Amityville Horror" and "The Changeling" milked dry. The PG-rated thriller, which stars Bette Davis, Lynn-Holly Johnson (of "Ice David McCallum, Carroll Baker, and Kyle Richards, is heavy on atmosphere and light on plausibility. An American couple and their two daughters, Jan and Ellie (Johnson and Richards), rent an old English mansion from a recluse named Mrs. Aylwood (Davis), only to become embroiled in a mystery that has haunted the community for decades.

Jan and Ellie have barely unpacked their bags when the occult occurrences begin. Jan looks in a mirror and sees the image of a blindfolded girl. Windows crack at her touch. Ellie and Jan hear strange singing when they walk in the woods. And always, a phantom watches from the wings.

Jan decides to play sleuth and soon learns that 30 years ago, Mrs. Aylwood's daughter, Karen, disappeared one stormy night during a strange initiation rite at the local wayside chapel. Believing that she can somehow untangle the 7JW3f If 5 if I 1 SCOTCH SfflSKY fj -v fx swers. The tipoff comes midway through the 90-minute movie when Jan exclaims, "There's nothing logical about any of this." Since sense isn't the strong suit of the script by Brian Clemens, Harry Spalding, and Rosemary Anne Sisson, director John Hough relies on the tried-and-true fright-flick techniques sudden shocks, lightning and thunder, hand-held camera shots (from the mysterious watoher-in-the-woods's eye view), and strange apparitions. They work up to a point.

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