The Pit (also known as Teddy) is a 1981 Canadian horror film starring Sammy Snyders and Jeannie Elias.

Thus, when his parents go away on a business trip and leave the attractive psychology student Sandy O'Reilly to babysit him, he falls completely in love with her.

Jamie reveals that in the forest, he has found a pit full of mysterious creatures, which he calls "Trogs", which he takes care of by feeding them raw meat.

After rampaging through the countryside, they are tracked down and chased back to their pit, where they are shot by the local militia and buried in it.

When Lew Lehman signed on to direct, he made Jamie older, the monsters real and added more humor to the original script.

[3] 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.