A man staying at a secluded historical mansion finds himself being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
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Title: The Changeling (1980)
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11 wins & 5 nominations.
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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 | |
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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
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Two people live in this house. One of them has been dead for 70 years. See more »Genres:
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Composed by Johannes Brahms (as Brahms)
Performed by The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Kazuyoshi Akiyama
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In a featurette for the DVD release of the 1996 horror film 'Scream', actress Neve Campbell named The Changeling as the scariest film she had seen. See more »Goofs
When John and Claire are in the library looking for information on one of the previous owners of the house, a librarian assists them by taking a microfilm of old newspapers from 1909 out of a drawer. He tells them he'll set it up on the viewer for them, but as they walk over to the viewer (still in the same shot) it is miraculously already loaded and on the viewscreen. See more »Quotes
John Russell: It's my understanding... that there are, uh... twenty-three students registered... for this series of lectures on advanced musical form. Now, we all know it's not raining outside, and unless there's a fire in some other part of the building that we don't know about, there's an awful lot of people here with nothing better to do.See more »
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Symphony #1 in C minor, Opus 68Composed by Johannes Brahms (as Brahms)
Performed by The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Kazuyoshi Akiyama
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28 March 1980 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
House on Chessman Park See more »Filming Locations:
1268-1270 West 57Th Street, Oakridge, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada See more »Edit
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CAD7,600,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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In this sadly forgotten horror film, George C. Scott plays a music composer who has just moved to Oregon to escape the painful memories of his wife and daughter who were killed in a car crash. He rents an old and secluded mansion from the historical society as a place to live. Soon after he moves into the house, strange occurrences begin.
This is one of those horror movies that can be scary without being bloody and gory. It simply relies on atmosphere and frightening, but subtle images to deliver its chills, and it works. I will never be able to understand that "R" rating mainly because there is only very mild profanity and there is no blood or gore. Anyway, I would recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a good scary ghost story. 8/10.