The Changeling with George C. Scott: DVD Cover

    The Changeling Director: Peter Medak Cast: George C. Scott, Trish VanDevere, Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos

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    • DVD Release Date: 09/12/2000
    • Original Release: 1980
    • Rating: Rated R
    • Sales Rank: 1,953

    Viewer Rating: (21 ratings)

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    Side #1 --
    0. Chapters
    1. The Last Holiday [5:15]
    2. A Place to Work [6:54]
    3. Back to Life [4:56]
    4. Habits of an Old House [10:34]
    5. A Warning [1:41]
    6. The Attic Room [10:06]
    7. A Dead Child [5:36]
    8. A Medium? [7:25]
    9. The Tape [8:01]
    10. Research [6:34]
    11. Nightmares [4:16]
    12. The Dig [2:52]
    13. The Medal [6:04]
    14. Captain Dewitt [5:46]
    15. Carmichael Confrontation [7:42]
    16. Joseph's Revenge [12:47]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Peter Medak's The Changeling is among a handful of films, including The Haunting (1963), Ghost Story (1981), and Lady in White (1988), that have successfully recreated the intimate, drawing-room atmosphere of supernatural horror fiction. After his wife and daughter are killed in a snowbound car accident, classical composer John Russell (George C. Scott) relocates from New York to Seattle to teach at his alma mater. Looking for a quiet place to rest and continue writing music, he is referred Claire Norman (Trish Van Devere) at the Seattle Historical Preservation Society. Claire shows John a large, sparsely furnished estate in the outlying countryside. He takes the house, appreciating its remoteness and the solitude it might afford, and diverts himself by renovating and settling in. He even starts to compose, putting aside his older work in favor of a new, sentimental piece for the piano. It is not long, however, before he begins having nightmares about the accident that killed his wife and daughter. Possibly because of this trauma, he is open to communications from the house's ghostly occupants. Pursuing a loud, repetitive pounding noise in an upper room, he stumbles on the apparition of a young boy drowning in a tub. Working together with Claire, John discovers frightening parallels between this vision and buried events from the house's past. Horror writer M.R. James once said that his goal as a writer was to make the reader feel "pleasantly uncomfortable." Those looking for a similar experience in movies will appreciate The Changeling as a gem in the horror genre. Anthony Reed, All Movie Guide

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    Changelingby Anonymous

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    October 25, 2007: This movie will send chills down your spine and make the hair stand up on your arms & legs. There is no blood no gore - it doesn't need that. It will scare you from deep within. Do not watch it alone!

    Changelingby Anonymous

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    April 11, 2007: I watched this movie for the first time in 1985 when I was 8yrs old. I thought it was very scary and buy that time the Friday the 13ths, and Nightmare on Elm Streets blood and guts shock you for the scare movies were all the rage. So even at that young age I could appreciate a great scary movie when I seen it. Later on, when I was 17 I tried to rent it at a video store and what a task it was just to find it. Three stores were required to finally locate it. I bought it at a video store a month ago. Another challenge. The Changeling is a great movie which can be appreciated by multiple generations, yet it is relatively unknown. On multiple occations when discussing my favorite movies, I have gotten the response, "The Changeling??, I have never heard of that movie". I love George C. Scott's performance. It would take a very strong nerves of steal type of person to explore and investigate sounds in the most remote locations of the scary house and he really pulls it off convincingly. Unlike most people who would run out of that house, he ran into the house, going deeper and deeper searching for the source and the truth behind the disturbances. Would you be able to walk up two large flights of stairs and beyond all alone in an enormous old house which is evidently haunted?? If you want to see someone with that strength and determination along with so many other great features of this classic, buy the movie and share it with your friends and family. Once you watch it for the first time you will be surprised why so many people have never heard of it.


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