Doe-eyed Kathleen Beller once again is a teenager threatened by who-knows-what (remember her in the equally efficient Deadly Messages? ). On this occasion the source material is an award-winning novel by Richard Peck. Kathleen cowers convincingly in this creepie, while her worried parents are given good value by throaty-voiced Blythe Danner, and by Tony Bill, who has since turned director. A young Dennis Quaid is almost unrecognisable in one of his earliest roles. Jack Swain's colour photography makes the most of the darker moments.


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