Bought new and looks and plays that way on my Panasonic vcr. This is the vhs collector's edition that comes in a black hardshell keepcase. The ad-art can be gingerly pulled out for some interesting liner notes about the film.

The transfer is presented in a letterboxed widescreen print so newer TV owners simply use one of your zoom modes to fill the frame which I did on my Sony and it looked good.

This was Disney's last ditch effort to shed its "kiddie film" image.

Cute teen Lynn-Holly Johnson ('For Your Eyes Only') is convinced that there is a WATCHER In the WOODS surrounding the ancient mansion that has become her home during her family's stay in England. Basically, the Disney studio has always been in the business of reassurance -- so for all the mysterious disturbances befalling the family that rents Bette Davis' old English home, one is constantly aware that no real threat to that unit is being posed.

Indeed, the narrative's Science Fiction aspect actually allows for the restitution of another family unit -- with the sketchily characterized alien accomplishing the reunion of Davis with her own daughter, missing for 30 years while trapped in another time-warp dimension.