THE PIT
dir. Lew Lehman, 1981
Canada, 96 min
In English.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13 - 10 PM
SATURDAY, MARCH 21 - MIDNIGHT

Left with a baby sitter, a bad boy with a teddy bear finds a pit with four hungry monsters.

The most cartoonish of the trilogy is also somehow, occasionally, the most unsettling. Jamie, as played by Sammy Snyders in his second-to-last credit (right behind 'The Littlest Hobo'), is an obnoxious, cringey, and entirely too horny pre-teen with parents who coddle him and his 'unique' behavior as he burns through babysitters who can't handle him. Oh, did we mention he also has a teddy bear who talks to him, and has also found a pit full of 'friends' in the woods?

Tonal shifts abound as Jamie's increasing(ly uncomfortable) attraction to his new babysitter Sandy curdles into rage at her and everyone who's ever bullied him. The less you know the better, but The Pit is certainly a ride worth taking.