This listing is for The Changeling DVD 1980.
Language: English
Program Type: Movie
Screen Format: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Studio: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Format: DVD
Product Name: The Changeling DVD 1980
Product Tags: DVD
Subtitles: English
Peter Medak's haunted house thriller The Changeling comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. English, Spanish, and French subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include cast and crew biographies. Genre enthusiasts will enjoy this disc, and the film's fans will appreciate the fine transfer, but there is not much here to interest a non-fan.
Cast:
George C. Scott - John Russell
Trish VanDevere - Claire Norman
Melvyn Douglas - Sen. Joe Carmichael
John Colicos - DeWitt
Jean Marsh - Joanna Russell
Barry Morse - Dr. Pemberton
James Douglas - Eugene Carmichael
Roberta Maxwell - Eva Lingstrom
Bernard Behrens - Prof. Robert Lingstrom
Frances Hyland - Elizabeth Grey
Peter Medak - Director
Garth H. Drabinsky - Producer
Joel B. Michaels - Producer
Diana Maddox - Screenwriter
Russell Hunter - Screen Story
John Coquillon - Cinematographer
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.
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