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Title: The Changeling (1980)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| George C. Scott | ... | John Russell | |
| Trish Van Devere | ... | Claire Norman | |
| Melvyn Douglas | ... | Senator Carmichael | |
| Jean Marsh | ... | Joanna Russell | |
| John Colicos | ... | Captain DeWitt | |
| Barry Morse | ... | Parapsychologist | |
| Madeleine Sherwood | ... | Mrs. Norman (as Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood) | |
| Helen Burns | ... | Leah Harmon | |
| Frances Hyland | ... | Mrs. Grey | |
| Ruth Springford | ... | Minnie Huxley | |
| Eric Christmas | ... | Albert Harmon | |
| Roberta Maxwell | ... | Eva Lingstrom | |
| Bernard Behrens | ... | Robert Lingstrom | |
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James B. Douglas | ... | Eugene Carmichael |
| J. Kenneth Campbell | ... | Security Guard | |
It was the perfect family vacation for composer John Russell and his family when a freak automobile accident claims the lives of his wife and daughter. Consumed by grief, John, at the request of friends, rents an old turn of the century house. Mammoth in size, the house seems all the room that John needs to write music and reflect. He does not realize that he is not alone in the house. He shares it with the spirit of a child who has homed in on John's despair and uses him to uncover decades of silence and deceit. With the help of Claire Norman, the one who aided John in procuring the house, they race to find the answers and soon learn that a devious and very powerful man guards them. Written by Vampire-Sharpshooter
I first saw 'The Changeling' in the mid-eighties and it has lost none of its edge. A few of the reviews I see below seem to be written by those who have read glowing reviews but just didn't get it: Comparisons with 'The Exorcist', a story of demonic possession, are inappropriate. This movie isn't a visual shock feast nor a gore fest, this is a powerful psychological drama. The penultimate ghost story. If you just sit back in a defensive posture and challenge the movie to scare you, you will lose out completely. If however you choose to get involved, you will find yourself going for one hell of a ride. Few scenes in moviedom rival the poignancy, for instance, of the disbelieving George C. Scott character when he is reviewing the tape of the seance and comes upon the inescapable evidence that there IS a paranormal presence in the house. Here I will make my own inappropriate comparison: In the context of this story, Scotts ultimately human and believable response and the collapse that follows is far scarier than Exorcist's Reagan spewing green puke, by a long shot.
And the little girl going alone, summoned into the haunted room in her house at night? Forget about it. My hair stands on end.
If 'The Changeling', watched at night doesn't give you a fright, then there are at least six 'Hallowe'en' movies on the rack that should suit your particular needs. The Changeling is something else: the fear of the spiritually macabre.