

The Changeling
Whatever you do… Don't go into the attic
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $7.6M
- Box office
- $12M
- Language
- English
- composer
- seattle, washington
- medium
- séance
- isolated house
- music professor
- historical society
- canuxploitation
- traumatized man
- tense
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Canada, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereUSA Film Festival26 Mar 1980
- TheatricalR28 Mar 1980
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM30 Oct 1980
CanadaCA
- TheatricalR28 Mar 1980
BrazilBR
- Theatrical31 Oct 1980
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1611 Jul 1980
FranceFR
- Theatrical1229 Oct 1980
GreeceGR
- PhysicalDVD21 Apr 2003
JapanJP
- Theatrical23 Aug 1980
MexicoMX
- TheatricalC11 Mar 1982
- Theatrical (limited)CMorbido Film Fest3 Nov 2018
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1628 Aug 1980
- Physical1616 May 2017
NorwayNO
- Theatrical1830 Aug 1980
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/166 Feb 1981
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The Changeling was released on 28 March 1980.
Audience reviews
2- J9/10
John Chard
6/25/2019
How did you die, Joseph? The Changeling is directed by Peter Medak and co-written by Russell Hunter, William Gray and Diana Maddox. It stars George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Melvyn Douglas, John Colicos and Jean Marsh. Plot finds Scott as John Russell, a music composer whose life is shattered when an accident kills both his wife and young daughter. Relocating to Seattle, Russell rents a large Gothic style mans…
- W6/10
Wuchak
4/24/2022
_**George C. Scott grapples with a haunted house**_ A grieving composer (Scott) rents a mansion in Seattle that’s been unoccupied for a dozen years and starts a relationship with the Historical Society agent who offered it to him (Trish Van Devere). Unfortunately, the manor has a shameful history and weird things start happening. "The Changeling" (1980) is haunted house horror in the tradition of "The Legend of…
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