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The Pit (also known as Teddy) is a 1981 Canadian horror film starring Sammy Snyders and Jeannie Elias. Although it is a Canadian production, it was actually filmed in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. The pit itself was filmed in Waupun, WI.
The Pit: Directed by Lew Lehman. With Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Laura Hollingsworth. A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.
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- Horror, Mystery
- Lew Lehman
- 1981-10-23
The Pit: Directed by Lew Lehman. With Sammy Snyders, Jeannie Elias, Sonja Smits, Laura Hollingsworth. A solitary and strange preteen boy wreaks revenge on his harassers when he makes a disturbing discovery in the depth of a forest.
This is "The Pit" from HBO's crime drama The Wire. It is located on the corner of Druid Hill Avenue and West Preston Street in Baltimore, Maryland. In real life, "The Pit" is a low-rise housing project called McCulloh Homes.
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Jamie Benjamin is a misfit 12-year-old boy. He's the whipping boy of his classmates, of the other kids of the city, and of the grandmothers who live in his small town. When he encounters other people, they tease and ridicule him. His only friend is a stuffed bear named Teddy, with whom he regularly holds conversations. The audience hears Teddy's vo...
Sammy Snyders as Jamie BenjaminJeannie Elias as Sandy O'ReillySonja Smits as Mrs. LyndeLaura Hollingsworth as Marg LivingstoneIan A. Stuart's original screenplay was considerably different from the final film. In his screenplay, Jamie was 8 or 9 years old and the Tra-la-logs were figments of his imagination. When Lew Lehman signed on to direct, he made Jamie older, the monsters real and added more humor to the original script. Stuart has expressed dissatisfaction with the...
The film received mixed reviews from critics. It is currently ranked as a 42% "freshness" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Due to its unusual premise and Sammy Snyders' effective performance, it has retained a small cult following.
Teddyby John Gault is a novelization of the film published in 1980. It appears to adhere closer to Ian A. Stuart's original screenplay than the finished film, containing more character development and a far darker tone.
The Pit is a 1981 Canadian Horror comedy film. Jamie Benjamin is a 12-year-old outcast. One day, while playing in the woods, he discovers a pit filled with monsters. He befriends the monsters, whom he calls "tro-lo-logs," and decides to feed them his tormentors.
Directed by Lew Lehman. Jamie wouldn’t kill anyone… unless Teddy told him to! Twelve year-old Jamie Benjamin is a solitary misunderstood boy in his preteens. His classmates pick on him, his neighbors think he’s weird and his parents ignore him.
