“The Changeling” is a
horror drama, Screenplay by William Gray and Diana Maddox from a
story by Russell Hunter and Directed by Peter Medak.
When music professor and
composer John Russell (George
C. Scott) and his family are enjoying a
perfect family vacation, a freak automobile
accident claims the lives of his wife and daughter.
Consumed by grief, he is urged to
rent a huge nineteenth century house, and the
house seems to possess all the room John needs to reflect and
hopefully write music.
However it isn’t long before he realizes he
is not alone in the house as he shares it with the
spirit of a murdered child who has homed in on John's grief and
despair and uses him to uncover decades of silence and deceit.
With the help of Claire Norman (Trish
Van Devere), who helped John secure
the house, they set out to find the answers and the powerful
and devious man who guards them.
This is not a violent or “Kensington Gore”
type of horror, it scares with great story telling, eerie sounds
and dark corners and it uses pathos with great effect.
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