The Pit - 1981 movie

It opens with Jamie taking revenge on a bully, for some past slight. they are at an evening party
celebrating some kind of festival, most likely Halloween. He lures the bully kid into a hole full of
hobgoblins and gives him a push to take a closer inspection at whatever evils lurk down there. Then we can finally start.

Jamie is next seen writing on a chalkboard as a sort of afterclass punishment. It's not clear what he did, but we can all take a guess it was something related to his precocious perviness. Everyone
refers to him as a creep. Maybe because he has this disturbing habit of peeking through cracks at what other people are doing and grinning gleefully while alone with his thoughts. It doesn't help that the other townsfolk behave like dickwads to him.

His parents realise that their kid is a psycho. They ponder over his penchant for speaking to a cadre of imaginable friends he has, including a wicked teddy bear who constantly spouts some vicious advice to its master. He's seen at one point feeding some bugs to a toad and reptiles in a tank, ushering in the events the movie is to unfold to us viewers. At a dinner scene, he drops his napkin on purpose and upon picking it up, takes an suggestive gander at some lady's legs to everyone's chagrin.

The protagonist is only a pre-teen male with no distinguishable outside traits. But beneath an unremarkable composure lies roiling waves of chaotic frustration at relieving his libidinous urges. This often carries through to his external personality as a succession of maladroit efforts at getting the opposite gender's attraction. Obviously, girls notice this, and do their best to give him a wide berth.

Successful seductions are followed by an element of danger, but this is overkill

He next tries to get intimate with his nanny, even though he's a bit old to be cared for by adult supervision. He gets anxious in her presence and excuses himself saying that he needs to talk to Teddy. As it turns out, Teddy is the end-receiver of Jamie's lamentations, providing feedback which veers to the dark side. At one point, he's told that his nanny (let's just call her Sandy) will get undressed and that is the opening he's been looking for. He'sfoiled by her boyfriend's calling her up and goes to bed with thoughts of what he would do to her if he had the chance.

The next morning he finds himself in the pleasurable company of Sandy, having breakfast and trying to get comfy with her. She plays along, giving him enough wiggle room to express himself. He eventually confides his secret to her: that he knows of a hole in the ground with hunchbacked creatures in it. No, it's not a rabbit hole that leads to a wonder land where some party for a queen is being held. At least it's not like this if you're not one of the draconian brownies that made the vertical burrow their abode.

She feigns interest in his narrative, but it seems he gets a little worked up when she asked if she could talk to them. He dashes off to his secretive spot to vent a little about his quandaries. Apparently, it's not only teddy the evil bear that is his evil mentor.

Something that immediately jumps to mind is how his parents act nice and encouraging to their distressed offspring. They take him to attend games and show their support for him nearly all the time. Maybe he hailed from some bad seed, one of those cases when the swimmers and eggs are too mutated and weakeaned at some point before they meet up to originate the resulting

zygote. Another quirk of disrubing portent is that James is always pestering the neighbour girl to ride her bicycle. She at last lets him, only for him to fall headfirst onto the ground due to inaptitude, causing a delighted young girl to burst out in luaghter.

No, a 12-year old male cuddling up to a teddy bear isn't odd at all

Soon enough, Jamie  is back to his usual self, which means he's acting exotic to say the least. This time he's queried by his adored nanny about his lack of human friends. He blurts something about being friends with the tralalogs. She retorts by telling him his trollish friends are a figment of his imagination. The young rogue sulks but brightens up when she tells him to take a bath and go to
bed. He uses her command as a springboard to ask his pedestalled nanny to wash his back. Sensing that the little creep is getting his hopes too high, she suggests friendzoning him. Jamie isn't blind to this kind of ploy commonly used by women to ward off undesirable suitors, and resigns in silence.

Things start to unravel around Jamie 's glum exploits as people start to search for clues about what he's up to. Meanwhile, he hits the butcher's and asks for some meat using his limited savings. We soon find out that he used his small cache of proteins to feed the ensconced creatures.

Catering to the mysterious beasts isn't his sole priority. He rushes back home, catches Sandy taking a shower and, brandishing a marker pen, takes the time to write in the mirror that he likes her. Maybe she should be more careful about leaving the bathroom door open while using it? She predictably reproaches him and is clearly repulsed by his bold move.

An unfased Jamie  ransackles the house for more cash and promptly turns up at the same butcher's to repeat the transaction. He soon runs out of money. Turning to his stuffed pet for advice, he's told to feed nasty people to the Tralalogs.

And so starts the feeding frenzy as each of the townsfolk is picked off by the ravenous beasts in the pit.  From now on, the plot just crawls almost to a halt. The killings are hardly elaborated, they mostly consist of Jamie  luring people into his secret haunt and proceeding to give them a little push. Heck,at times, not even this is necessary as some of them just traipse off into the hole of doom.

This stage fatality should be in the next MK installment

After enough people are killed to satisfy the plot's requirement, he elects to let the object of his lewd fervour in on his secret. Even though she's presented with the sound of the creatures, she's not still convinced of their status as supernatural beings until she's looks down the hole herself. She remarks how it'd be beneficial for mankind to reveal their existence. This doesn't go well with Jamie , who disputes her opinion and tell her that the secret was supposed to be kept between the two of them. After a brief spat, she slips and falls down. This is too much for Jamie , he snaps, only to cry himself to sleep in the company of his accursed teddy.

 Jamie reported to the authorities about the appearance of the perpetrator, describing him as a man with a mustache. It so happened that the venegful youngster has another crude habit added to his list of weird behaviours: he likes to walk away with the monster's victims' possessions. He stashed away all of their belongings in the boot of a someone's car. By dint of coincidence, the car's owner's looks fits squarely with jamie's account of what the killer looked like! The underage nutzoid is left off the hook as some random bloke with a mustache and a carfull of dispatched people's personal possessions starts to look suspicious over the recent murders.

The older man is at one point inquired by the local police about the missing people, his puzzled look doing him no good as the police officers grow impatient with his lack of reaction to their pressing queries. Where is Phoenix Wright when you need him?

Since Jamie  has no longer the inclination nor the will to keep feeding bad people to the Tralalogs,

An honest conversation between man and (stuffed) beast.

he decides to leave them with a means of providing for themselves, which winds up with him giving them a length of rope and obsequiously telling that he can no longer feed them and that they're on their own from here on out. After a few more killings, the local sheriff assembles a posse of about a dozen men to chase the hungry creatures back to the hole that they hailed from and shoot them. The hole is covered so no more tralalogs might spawn from the bowels of the earth. Everyone is apparently happy with the outcome, except for the dead people. And Jamie . The latter ends up moving to a new neighbourhood in order to leave all the previous atrocities behind, only to find a girl who wants to show him her secret, another pit in the woods.

This movie's plot doesn't scan well with the pace it sets early on. Although it starts on a nice note and
sets the tone early about some disturbed kid's struggles to fit in a society intolerant of deviant
behaviour. The high point of this movie is the main character's disconcerting frame. He oozes creepiness like there's no tomorrow and the brief moments he's with other human beings never approach anything resembling normal interaction. Jamie  doesn't have an overly anxious posture, nor is he prone to violent behaviour. But one can't help but notice how there is always an inner pandemonium of confused emotions stirring up from within. His lack of mental balance prevents him from being liked by others in the film, but that's what makes the movie somewhat likeable.