I Cant believe this was a Disney film!
It scared the living sh#te outa me when I was a kid!!!
I Had nightmares for a week and it was shown on a sunday afternoon!
I watched it again recently and I still found it quite disturbing.
I agree, this movie scared the bejeezus out of me when I was a kid, nightmares and everything. I have been trying to find a copy to watch it again.
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I saw this movie when I was really young, and although I remember very very little of it, I never forgot the title and always wanted to see it again. I am wondering if I could get it on Netflix.
After reading these posts, I must see it again!
All I can remember is "Narek" and was there some pool of water in the woods? And the old lady. Very little, like I said.
What's also funny is that someone mentioned a bell falling on a girl, and I have no recollection of this from the movie, but when I was young I used to write little scary stories. I had a bell falling on a girl in the woods in one of my stories! I had to have gotten it from WITW!!
I didn't see it for the first time until I was teenager in 1998. I was impressed enough to decide to own a copy of the movie & have done so ever since the Disney DVD came out.
shareI just rented it a few weeks ago, and watched it for the first time in almost 20 years. I know I saw it as a child, but, strangely, almost none of it seemed familiar while I rewatched it. The only parts I could remember seeing before were when the girl falls in the pond and Bette Davis pokes her with a stick, and when the girl writes "Narek" on the window. Although it didn't really scare me at all, the music was spooky and I was a bit creeped out when the little girl was writing on the mirror backwards and repeating "It hardly ever happens."
I thought one of the creepiest parts was when the girl doesn't see her reflection in the mirror, which was so subtly done, it was great. Although, I thought there was going to be more of that the way people on here said they had nightmares about not seeing their reflection for years.
I am surprised I wasn't more affected by this movie when I was little. Perhaps I was TOO young when I saw it.
Damn right it's scary! It is one of the scariest movies I've ever seen. It achieves a lot of real suspense and fear without being graphic.
The people who call this movie "tame," I think, aren't really tuned in to how frightening it really is.
There is no bad guy in the movie, what is frightening here is the unknown, and the film depicts a whole unknown preternatural world imposing itself upon this world. A masterpiece and certainly one of John Hough's best movies.
This movie scared the crap out of me as a kid! To make matters worse my name is Karen...like the girl in the movie! I still have visions of that name being spelled backwards in glass or something. I haven't seen this movie in like 20 years!
shareLike most people here, it scared the *beep* out of me when I was a kid. I've had a few cravings to watch it again, but I fear that I'll end up laughing at it and that it will be corny and stupid. I'd rather let the good memory live on...
shareI am so glad to find I am not the only one who was scared by this film. I saw it when I was young, about 7 or 8 and had to keep turning the channel over. So it all the way through a few years ago and love it just as much.
I love the Disney films produced in the 70's and 80's because they were good films. Escape and Return to Witch mountain are also my favourite Disney films.
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I love this movie, I too watched it as a kid and it scared the bajibers outa me. I still, at 24 don't watch it alone or in the dark lol! This is what the "Scary," or so-called "Horror" films are missing today, a good story, good acting, and great haunting music, rather than the limb wacking competition they all seem to think will send people running for the hills.
shareThis movie is downright terrifying! I saw it in the theatre when I was a kid, and it was YEARS before I could comfortably look into a mirror again.
shareI know! I'm 17 and I STILL CAN'T WATCH IT.
and i can watch anything. Movies do not scare me but something about this film is just creepy. Especially bette davis. Just thinking about this movie gives me chills and the last time I watched it [probably about 3-4 years ago] i had nightmares. NIGHTMARES! And I was 13 or 14 at the time. It's insane! How could Disney put out such a creepy movie!!??
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Like everyone else, this movie scared me half to death, as a child. I was probably in the 3rd grade and we watched this movie and "Something Wicked This Way Comes" in daycare. I guess because they said "Disney" on the cover, that meant they were ok to watch. I had nightmares about guillotines and mirrors for weeks! LOL
I'm 30 and watched it a couple of years ago. Still very creepy to me. I'm not a fan of horror movies because I don't like the gore but there's something about this movie that is just SO creepy, it leaves you feeling really unsettled.
The only problem I have with it is that Lynn Holly Johnson's voice can be extremely obnoxious sometimes! LOL
I was mildly traumatised by this film after seeing it as a child too.
I was about 7 or 8 years old and my sister and I were staying with an Aunt and Uncle in London while my parents were away on holiday. One of my teenage cousins took us to see "Watcher" at the local cinema. I don't think my parents would have ordinarily allowed us to see this type of film. Anyway, seeing it on the big screen just intensified the feeling of terror.
To make matters worse my Aunt and Uncle lived in a big old Victorian house and I was staying in a room where the wall opposite the bed was essentially one big mirror (three tall mirror paneled wardrobes placed adjacent to eachother). Needless to stay my head did not emerge from the below the bed covers that night!
yah it was scary for disney film!
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