So, last night I went to a birthday party for two of my friends. When relatively few guests remained, we decided to watch Watcher in the Woods, as we are getting close to Halloween. I don’t know if you remember Watcher in the Woods, but it was the one scary movie most of us were allowed to watch when we were in fourth grade. Since then we have all moved on to what we thought were bigger, better, scarier movies.

I was surprised (literally) to find that this movie induced more screams, jumps, and heart palpitations among our group of viewers than any movie I have seen lately. There are definitley some suspensful parts in the show, and it seemed like some of the girls even found the premise to be creepy. As I have always felt that most girls mainly live their lives in an alternate dimension, I do not feel that way. Although the movie itself didn’t tend to scare or startle me, I definitely jumped a few times as someone next to me let out a scream.

When the movie was over, we watched the alternate ending on youtube. In the alternate ending a large creature from the aforementioned alternate dimension actually shows itself and flies through the church. It takes Jan in to Ray Kinsella’s corn field and they disappear. Later a bunch of old baseball players come out with James Earl Jones. Or something like that. I would recommend this to anyone. I think this illustrates what I like best about older movies that are designed to scare. You know the directors of all the old scary movies asked themselves at one time, “How do we make this scary without any good special effects?” The amazing thing is, they usually found a way.

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