The Changeling (1980)

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I have never been on good terms with horror movies; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me caused me to sleep in my mother's bedroom for 6 months when I was 12, after I had seen Sixth Sense I was not able to sleep alone for a week in my room when I was in university and I had to stay in a friend's apartment for a few days when I accidentally saw The Hills Have Eyes on TV. Therefore, last night before all the creepy stuff started to happen in Changeling, I said to my room mate, well, if we DO get scared, we will sleep together, deal? I ended up peacefully sleeping in my bedroom alone, however, this does not mean that the movie was not scary, it gave me the creeps!

Tha 1980 movie starts with a happy family holiday scene; the parents and their little girl is stuck in the middle of winter on the road, they nonetheless do not lose their temper, and the mother and daughter start to snowball. The father, Dr. John Russell, a famous composer, calls for help in a phone booth, and instead, he witnesses the death of his wife and daughter because of an accident on the road. A few months later, he moves to Seattle, to start a new life. He rents an old historical house -well, a chateau to be exact - and tries to move on; however, soon strange events start to occur in the house. Russell begins to investigate the house's history, only to find out that a child had been murdered in the house back in the beginning of the century and he decides to do something about it.



I must admit that half of the movie I could not look at the screen and at one scene I screamed. The tension was always high and any moment I expected something creepy to happen, and in almost all of the scenes inside the house, there was an event like so. George C. Scott, who also won the best foreign actor award with this film in Genie awards, is truly amazing. And I DID admire his characters' courage to stay in this house, no matter what happened, until the building had finally gone crazy.

Changeling was #54 on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments, and is truly a horror classic, for those who love that genre and those who has someone to stay with them after seeing the movie.