The Changeling
After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him. From TMDB
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60 of 168 · most liked firstThe Changeling (1980) Directed by Peter Medak starring George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere. Martin Scorsese included this movie on his Top 11 Scariest Horror Films of all time list.
neutral · AI labelView post →got invited as a guest artist to make a piece for @studioadore.bsky.social indie animated short film called THE CHANGELING, a wlw shoujo horror 🦋
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 46 years ago (May 28, 1980) the psychological horror film "The Changeling" premiered in Canadian and American theatres! Directed by Peter Medak, it stars George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh, John Colicos, Barry Morse & Madeleine Sherwood. Cinematography by John Coquillon.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Changeling (1980) Directed by Peter Medak starring George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere. Martin Scorsese included this movie on his Top 11 Scariest Horror Films of all time list.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Changeling (1980) 🎬🖤 Directed by Peter Medak
neutral · AI labelView post →Movie recommendation for tonight, The Changeling I recommended a particularly mean and nasty movie last night, so tonight I'm suggesting something relatively bloodless, but it's one of the best haunted house movies I've ever seen, it's brooding and the central mystery is deeply compelling.
positive · AI labelView post →The Changeling (1980) Directed by Peter Medak. Starring George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere. Martin Scorsese included this movie on his Top 11 Scariest Horror Films of all time list.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s scary movie: THE CHANGELING (1980), directed by Peter Medak
neutral · AI labelView post →The Changeling (1980) Directed by Peter Medak. Starring George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere. Martin Scorsese included this movie on his Top 11 Scariest Horror Films of all time list.
neutral · AI labelView post →For those who asked, here are some other excellent haunted house movies from around the world Hausu from Japan the original Paranormal Activity A Tale of Two Sisters The Orphanage Lake Mungo (an amazing film) The Innocents The Changeling The Devil's Backbone
neutral · AI labelView post →The Changeling (1980) Directed by Peter Medak. Starring George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere. Martin Scorsese included this movie on his Top 11 Scariest Horror Films of all time list. #FilmSky #MovieSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Fave horror film from each year of the 80s 80: The Changeling 81: The Evil Dead 82: The Thing 83: Christine 84: Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter 85: Day of the Dead 86: Are we counting Aliens? If not, Little Shop of Horrors 87: The Lost Boys 88: Hellbound: Hellraiser II 89: The 'Burbs
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's film The Changeling (1980)
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight’s #NowWatching spooky film is another Canadian psychological horror. ‘The Changeling (1980)’ #filmsky #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite horror movie for every year of the 1980s: 1980 - The Changeling 1981 - Possession 1982 - Poltergeist 1983 - Psycho II 1984 - Nightmare on Elm Street 1985 - Return of the Living Dead 1986 - Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives 1987 - Predator 1988 - Halloween 4 1989 - Society
neutral · AI labelView post →#nowwatching The Changeling (1980). Another classic ghost movie to cross off the list. #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Closing out the night with my favorite supernatural psychological horror film, The Changeling.
positive · AI labelView post →Friday night, 9.05pm= a horror double bill on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social; before Bob Clark's 1972 Canadian entry Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, #CarolineMunro's The Cellar Club have Peter Medak's spooky cult chiller from 1980, The Changeling. #TPTV film-authority.com/2026/10/09/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →I wrote about The Changeling for the upcoming Fall issue of @moviejawn.com, which you can pre-order here! www.moviejawn.com/shop/fall-2026
neutral · AI labelView post →Stopped by the thrift store on the way home and I found a copy of my favorite haunted supernatural horror film, The Changeling.
positive · AI labelView post →john carpenter's Christine is the classic horror movie about a car but the thing is like 68% of horror movies are about a car The Descent: car Hereditary: car The Changeling: car
neutral · AI labelView post →Seeing The Changeling at the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social tonight managed to turn a movie I liked into a film I love.
positive · AI labelView post →I'm a third of the way through the movie The Changeling and I've already grown fond of the house 🥹 "it's not that the house doesn't want to be inhabited, it's desperate to communicate"
positive · AI labelView post →I usually binge movies on my birthday, and this year I opted to follow the AMC Theatres program for this month's #StarTrek movie re-releases. So far I've watched The Changeling and TMP, Space Seed and TWOK, and Amok Time. Will be watching Search for Spock shortly.
neutral · AI labelView post →And just at the end of the 70s we get the BEST haunted house movie EVER. No, not THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (which is great) but THE CHANGELING (1980) with George C. Scott. The last great horror movie of a decade that had so many. Holy shit. www.imdb.com/title/tt0080...
positive · AI labelView post →Huh, my local AMC is doing a thing where they play a TOS movie, but with a similarly themed TOS episode before it. AKA they'll play The Changeling and then The Motion Picture, or Space Seed and the Wrath of Khan. That's a pretty neat concept.
neutral · AI labelView post →On March 26, 1980, The Changeling premiered at the USA Film Festival.
neutral · AI labelView post →Favourite horror movie for every year of the 1980s: 1980 - The Changeling 🏏 1981 - AAWIL 🐺 1982 - The Thing 🧊 1983 - Something Wicked This Way Comes 💈 1984 - F13: The Final Chapter 🍌 1985 - Fright Night 🕺 1986 - The Hitcher 🍟 1987 - Evil Dead II 🪚 1988 - Waxwork 🕯️ 1989 - Dead Calm 🛶
neutral · AI labelView post →I love the Changeling. Such a good film. #frightclub
positive · AI labelView post →Underrated film in many ways. Great story. Alice was captivating. The locations terrific (upstate NY), exquisite score by Philipe Sarde. Made during a bit of a horror resurgence and the great older actors made the best of it. The Changeling with George C Scott another from that time.
positive · AI labelView post →youtu.be/NnzHnySkhPU?... "The Changeling" Best ghost movie ever!
positive · AI labelView post →209. Revisited an old favorite from high school era-CC, The Changeling letterboxd.com/cckirby/film...
positive · AI labelView post →Hausu from Japan the original Paranormal Activity A Tale of Two Sisters The Orphanage Lake Mungo (an amazing film) The Innocents The Changeling
neutral · AI labelView post →The Changeling is an excellent movie
positive · AI labelView post →Before Poltergeist, there was... The Changeling. Very pleased to add this one to the collection. A heavily underrated score in the horror film genre. #TheChangeling #TheChangeling1980 #KenWannberg
positive · AI labelView post →Post one of the most haunting shots in movie history from a film made before the year 2000 the entire ball sequence in The Changeling, at the bottom of the stairs. It's so chilling and unnerving from something so simple.
neutral · AI labelView post →I figured since I'm going to need to get into the habit of posting more, here's some environment concept art for Braidy von Althuis and the Changeling Children, an animated kid's film. I'm a Vis dev major, and it would be dope if I could make video games or films one day!
neutral · AI labelView post →Those are three of my favorite George C. Scott roles, and of course The Hustler as plus. Plus I love him in that very classy haunted house movie The Changeling
positive · AI labelView post →#100HorrorMoviesin92Days Movie 48-The Changeling
neutral · AI labelView post →Attended all four night of Star Trek episodes and films to celebrate 60 years. My ranking: 1 City on the Edge of Forever 2 Space Seed 3 Amok Time 4 The Changeling 1 The Wrath of Khan 2 The Voyage Home 3 The Motion Picture 4 The Search for Spock It was great fun to see them all in a movie theater.
neutral · AI labelView post →wow that was so cool. they showed the episode The Changeling right before the movie and it was such a perfect accompaniment. i'm going to see Wrath of Khan tomorrow and am stoked for it too!
neutral · AI labelView post →You ever see The Changeling? Not the Eastwood film - the 1980 George C Scott one… Geezus that movie scared me as a kid!
positive · AI labelView post →The Changeling (obviously not the George C Scott film, but the one where…watch it, it’s so good, it is ones my favorite times in history when working as a phone board operator provided women with a living to be independent).
neutral · AI labelView post →The first scary adult movie I ever saw in full was Peter Medak's 1980 film The Changeling. It has an amazing musical score which incorporates voices not only singing notes but also speaking, breathing, gasping, etc. It is still my personal benchmark for the sound of supernatural eerieness.
positive · AI labelView post →#31DaysofHorror #FilmSky #3 The Changeling
neutral · AI labelView post →I don’t know why but for a minute the movie made me think about the medium from the movie The Changeling
neutral · AI labelView post →The Changeling (1980) is my favorite ghost/haunted house movie and has been for years. It's so good
positive · AI labelView post →Was that an homage to the George C Scott movie The Changeling ? #TalesFromTheCrypt (s2e12) #FrightClub
neutral · AI labelView post →I do post every horror movie for my October watches! 😁 I also do a stupid Halloween joke for each day 🤪 I don’t know if I’ve ever done The Changeling for my run throughs so I’ll do it this time
neutral · AI labelView post →The Alamo Drafthouse is playing the first 4 Star Trek films this weekend. Each movie will screen after a TOS episode! Tonight is The Changeling and TMP. Very excited for this!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Changeling is a great horror film. A man loses his family in an accident and moves to a Victorian house in order to escape the horrible memories, however strange things start to happen there, and reveal the horrible secrets of the houses dark past.
positive · AI labelView post →Favorite film for each year of the 1980s: 1980: The Changeling 1981: The Great Muppet Caper 1982: The Thing 1983: A Christmas Story 1984: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1985: Back to the Future 1986: Stand By Me 1987: Robocop 1988: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 1989: When Harry Met Sally
positive · AI labelView post →Favourite horror movie for every year of the 1980s: 1980 The Changeling 1981 An American Werewolf in London 1982 The Thing 1983 Psycho II 1984 A Nightmare On Elm Street 1985 Day of the Dead 1986 The Hitcher 1987 Evil Dead II 1988 The Blob 1989 Dead Calm #FilmSky
positive · AI labelView post →Favourite horror movie for every year of the 1980s: 1980 The Changeling 1981 Possession 1982 Tenebrae 1983 Videodrome 1984 The Passing 1985 Day of the Dead 1986 The Fly 1987 Opera 1988 Dead Ringers 1989 The Black Cat
positive · AI labelView post →Favorite horror movie for every year of the 1980’s. 1980: The Changeling 1981: The Beyond 1982: The Thing 1983: Psycho 2 1984: A Nightmare On Elm Street 1985: Re-Animator 1986: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 1987: Evil Dead 2 1988: The Blob 1989: Curse 2: The Bite #horror #horrormovies #horrorsky
positive · AI labelView post →what’s your favorite movie about ghosts? The Changeling. Here's my cat Esmerelda watching it with @luckynun.bsky.social.
positive · AI labelView post →I've finally arrived at the scene I've been most excited to write in my middle grade ghost story The Ghost in Mitchell Bay. I'm modelling it after the incredible seance scene in the great Canadian horror film The Changeling. It's fantastic and I hope I pay proper homage to it. #KidLit #WIP #Writing
neutral · AI labelView post →#UndeadOctober movie 13: The Changeling (1980). A widower discovers the dark secret behind his new haunted home. One part ghost story, one part murder mystery, and all crafted in that late 70s cinema style we don’t get anymore. The pace is steady, and it has good tension without using jump scares.
positive · AI labelView post →Haunted house/ghost films; The Changeling (1980) is one of my favorite haunted house films ever. The Evil (1978) is another amazing one. The Haunting is classic. the original House is both goofy but also really unnerving at times. the American one the Japanese film House is also amazingly cool.
positive · AI labelView post →Today - Housebound THE INNOCENTS and THE CHANGELING at Paradise, animated MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE and THE CHANGELING (again!) at Revue, more! Rundown: letterboxd.com/torontoplex/... #toRep
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