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The Changeling
Director Peter Medak fled Hungary during the 1956 revolution and his best work, like The Ruling Class and Let Him Have It, usually expressed a strong socio-political bent. The Changeling, his 1979 ghost story is no different, mixing supernatural thrills and political intrigue. An eerie and elegant film with haunting overtones of 1944’s The Uninvited, it stars George C. Scott and Melvyn Douglas who bring welcome gravitas to the proceedings.
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Ti West is the writer and director of The Roost, Trigger Man, The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers, V/H/S/ (Second Honeymoon) & The Sacrament. In general, he is a big fan of movies and the trailers that come before them.
Eerie and elegant, plus (mostly) filmed in Vancouver.
Interesting one.
Well Thanks Ti. I too came to this movie late in life. Old enuff to enjoy the slow pace and find gratitude in the film’s atmosphere and story. You didn’t mention George C. Scott’s acting–there’s a scene where he’s walking in nature with a woman friend and he communicates amazing pain with his facial expressions. It’s a style of being in a theatrical moment that you don’t fake (which is why it is so hardly used). I’ve seen films of Robert Mitchum from the 1970’s where he does likewise
By the 1980’s films from the studios crowding the mutliplex traded in such high quality work to shot for the quick buck fueled by images of teens, simulated sex and outlandish violence. Maybe future horror films can discover stories with adults who are caught up against the various crisis of life. The metaphor of America’s youth being robbed of a future (as we seen played out in big box horror films since then) made most sense to me as a commentary on the Nixon/Reagan agenda to destroy the counter culture. I think we are at a different stage