Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Alicia I love this movie so much

Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

atinder I was really looking forward to this, a lot decent comments about on sites This boy who is kinda off a outcast, he talks to his bear, who tell him what to do.It wasn't to clearer if Bear was actually talking or they Boy was just thinking bear talking.Anyone who upset the boy, the boy takes them in the wood, to see a Pit and pushes them in there.We don't find until near the end, what is actually in the Pit as they escape the Pit.We do get to see these creatures, they look okay for the time.Acting was just Okay, some acting was really poor.I found ending a little funny, I'm clad it ended it like that 4 out of 10, as I was expected more, it felt more like kids movie

edeighton Eric Deighton's review of the Pit** warning spoilers**This was the most interesting of the four films reviewed by this group in 2017. Early on in this film I really thought that the troglodytes in the pit were purely in Jamie's imagination. That would have been an interesting twist. Unfortunately, the monsters in the pit are real and a rather unimaginative monster movie is presented to us instead of a more subtle psychological thriller/horror movie.Upon second viewing of the film, it occurred to me that perhaps there is an even more interesting twist in this movie. While on its face, this movie portrays Jamie as a "little pervert", upon closer examination a lot of the adult females in this movie really act inappropriately around this 12 year old boy. Lets begin with Jamie's teacher, Ms. Lynde. She busts Jamie for bringing a nude photography book into school and then looks through the book in front of Jamie and when he finishes writing on the blackboard she tells him to "rub it off and then go home". That must have been music to his perverted ears.The next inappropriately behaving woman in Jamie's life is the librarian, Marg Livingston. She acts throughout the movie like she has some terrible secret she is keeping. In the beginning of the movie she has already received a love letter from Jamie that contains her a photo of her own head crudely pasted onto the naked body of a woman that Jamie cut out of the nude photography book. But Marg keeps that letter until the nude photography book is returned. At that point she knows for sure that Jamie is the person who sent her the letter, but she tells no one, not even Jamie's parents, who are apparently her neighbors from across the street. While Marg Livingston warns her niece to stay away from Jamie, she describes him only as "distressing". Worse still, Marg Livingston agrees to strip naked in front of her front window when she receives an obviously taped phone call from Jamie. In the taped phone call Jamie mispronounces her niece, Abigail's, name in his trademark fashion as "Abergail". Marg Livingstone obviously knew it was Jamie watching her from outside her front window and stripped nude nonetheless. Hell, how could she have not seen him? He was right outside her window taking Polaroids. What's worse Marg Livingstone never reports Jamie to the police or his parents for his late night photo session.The next inappropriately behaving woman in Jamie's life is his 24 year old live in babysitter, Sandy O'Reilly, who walks around the house in the tiniest, sexist little nightshirt after she has already been warned of Jamie's sexual curiosity. She also sleeps with her bedroom door wide open and her breast hanging out of her shirt. Worse still, she agrees to bathe a naked 12 year old horny boy?!?!?! Who does that? Why does she tell Jamie that "its bedtime and bath time as well" in the first place? Come to think of it, in the first scene in which she meets Jamie, she sees him go under the table to stare up her skirt and she uncrosses and opens her knees to give him a better view and then smiles at him after he gets busted by his father. Even after she knows his sexual interest in her, she walks around Jamie wearing nothing but a shower towel.Creepiest of all is Jamie's mother, Mrs. Benjamin, who tells Sandy O'Reilly that her husband thinks that she spends to much attention on Jamie. Jamie tells Sandy O'Reilly that his mother hand bathes him several times a day and wonders if he really is as constantly dirty as his mother insists as justification for the excessive bathing. Jamie's mother is clearly aware that Jamie has stalked previous female baby- sitters and yet hires 24 year old Sandy to watch him. Yet at the end of the movie, Jamie goes to live with his grandparents. Did his mother abandon him?Interesting facts about the making of this movie:*This was a Canadian made movie but it was shot in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. *Jamie was played by child actor Sammy Snyder who never acted again after this film but went on to be a professional dancer. Sammy Snyder left the set after shooting was finished for the day and hung out at a local disco. * Sandy O'Reilly was played by actress Jeannie Elias, who never did another feature film but did many iconic cartoon character voices throughout the 1990s. * Screenwriter Ian Stuart believes that his story was basically ruined in the final version of the film because he had Teddy Bear's voice and the monsters in the pit as purely Jamie's over active imagination. Over time, the imaginary creatures became so real to Jamie that he insisted they were real and when his babysitter/caretaker became frustrated at this nagging insistence and slapped him, everything in the film from that instant until the final scene in the doctor's office occurs only in his mind. The end of the film was supposed to be a big reveal that there was never actually anything in the Pit. At the end we know that nobody who died is actually dead and are all busily going about their lives as they always did. Both the ending and the entire vibe of the film turned out to be completely different from what he wrote. *Director, Lew Lehman never did another film and his wife forbid him to be present to film any of the nude scenes in this movie. Inexplicably, his own daughter, Jennifer Lehman, was cast as the skinny dipper that is carried off by the troglodytes. Director, Lew Lehman, was permitted by his wife to personally film his own daughter's unnecessary gratuitous topless scene.

Brian T. Whitlock (GOWBTW) This is one of the weirdest movies I have ever seen. Here you have a very creepy 12 year-old who has a hard time fitting in. Everyone in the neighborhood is totally hostile, including the librarian. This kid's only friend is a stuffed bear named Teddy. This animal gives him orders in which he complies. What makes things worse is he has an unhealthy obsession with girls. It goes further when his parents go out of town and leave him with a very beautiful babysitter. Unknown to the others, including his parents, he does have some secret friends: in a pit. They're not human, but known to him as "Tra-la-logs". Teddy advices Jamie (Sammy Snyders) to use the creatures to get back at the ones who did him wrong. After he exhausted himself for getting meat form the butcher, his first victim is the girl with the bike. Then, the blind old woman. The babysitter's boyfriend, and so on. However, when the babysitter got to meet the creatures, she fell and became the unintended victim. The line was crossed there, and Jamie wanted nothing to do with them, anymore. Kind of like the reverse version of Daniel in the lion's den, only without the lions. A weird, but different movie. Enjoyable though. 2 out of 5 stars

lost-in-limbo You got problems… check your nearby woods and maybe they'll be solved. Twelve-year-old Jamie is a strange, sexually obsessed loner whose only real friend is a sinister, scheming stuffed teddy bear that talks to him. He has secret that in the nearby woods he finds a large hole in the ground which harbours a pack of prehistoric beasts known as troglodytes. He doesn't know what to feed them, until reads up on them and learns they're carnivorous. So those people who have harassed him or got on his bad side will soon find out about Jamie's secret. However he did tell his secret to one other; the attractive babysitter looking after him since his parents have gone away… but maybe that wasn't such a good idea."The Pit" is a very peculiar, but hypnotic b-grade l, drive-in rural psycho-kid outing that's a lot of fun. If you enjoy something rather twisted, senseless and perverse with a dark sense of humour. What it really has going for it is the extra creepy and disquieting performance of Sammy Snyders as Jamie. He striking visual features standout and he superbly plays a disturb mindset, as if he entirely lives in his own world along with his teddy. Quite a seedy little teddy, but still don't know if its because of his imagination or if it was possessed due to one sequence which has its head moving with Jamie being nowhere in the scene. The dialogues between the two are dementedly funny, but still there's a real sincerity about it. The lovely Jeannie Ellis plays the concerned babysitter who tries to communicate and understand him, but she finds out he's truly a little monster. Director Lew Lehman plays it as it is, never trying for anything truly clever. While its low-scale restrictions show it up at times (don't know why it began with a scene that shows up later on), but Lehman's vivid creativity shows in sequences along with the mean-spirited vibe and immensely unpredictable nature. There's a little touch sleaze (the voyeuristic peeping) and blood and gore, but the killings mainly happened off-screen (some moments were quite rib-tickling with how certain people just don't seem to see the pit before taking the trip in) and monsters are nothing more than cheesy costumes with the striking element being the glowing eyes. Most of the time they're in a dark pit, until later on when they come to the surface to cause havoc. The music score is sweepingly full of life, but terribly overwrought and the final shot ends on such a perfectly foreboding and ironic note that goes down so well.