The Changeling

The level of the flames changes inconsistently several times during the end sequence.

When Claire is showing John the piano room (apx.

10 min into the movie), the camera moves backwards and it reveals the shadow of the camera.

The camera also touches the piece of cloth covering the piano and you can see it moving.

After John Russell discovers the secret stairs he gets to a room with an open door.

When he looks into the room, the camera moves back and reveals a shadow of a human head disappearing on the left side of the screen.

Either this is fully intentional by the filmmaker or it's a shadow of a crew member.

This occurs approximately 34:32 (min.

) into the film.

When John Russell first examines the notebook in the attic room, the sticker on the cover says"C.

, January 1909".

When he brings Claire Norman to the attic room, she picks up the notebook and reads "C.

, January FOURTH 1909" off the cover.

In one scene, the telephone in the limousine is black and in another it's white.

In the beginning of the movie when John Russell is shown walking across the road to the phone booth, the road is packed solid with snow.

When it shows him reaching the phone booth, in the background you can see that cars have cleared a path with their tires.

During the second part of the séance when the metal flute object is in the center of the table, the camera's point of view descends the staircase and walks into the room.

The shadow of the camera operator is visible on the floor to the left, just after entering the room.

There are no telephone poles or wires going to the phone booth in the opening scene.

The next scene after John discovers the small child's room and the music box, Claire is listening to music on the reel to reel tape player.

There is a large mirror and several small mirrors built into the mantle above the fireplace behind her.

As the camera dollies right towards John, you see the arm of a grip pushing the camera in the small right mirror below the single large mirror.

John's daughter's ball is red and gray with a white stripe up to the point where it bounces down the stairs the first time.

When John takes it to the bridge and when it bounces down the stairs the second time, it is all red with a white stripe.

When the Grey car skids (2 minutes into the movie), it swerves in the middle of the road and drives away.

But on the next shot the car is parked on the left side, facing the coming truck.

When John is playing the piano towards the beginning, the transom above the door next to the fireplace has light behind it.

But, when John is called away from the piano, the transom above the door is dark.

When the wheelchair swivels to face Claire just before the chase, Claire mouths "Oh S***".

However, the audio tries to pass it off as two separate screams, the second of which occurs after she has already shut her mouth.

When the séance resumes for the second time, a camera shot angle shows the metal cone in the center of the table surrounded by the large pieces of paper the medium wrote/scribbled on earlier (at around 53 mins), however when the camera pans back a moment later when the spirit enters the room from the staircase, the papers are neatly stacked and the cone is off center.

(at around 1h 07 mins) John and Claire are driving to Mrs.

Gray's house and the driver of the car is clearly not John but a younger man with short, dark hair.

In the opening scene, when mom and daughter are playing in the snow, there is ample sun and shadowing; when they are pushing the car, and when dad is in the phone booth, it is quite cloudy and overcast.

The wheelchair rolls down the stairs, crashes upside down and the wheels splinter.

After the fire, the wheelchair is seen sitting upright and back intact.

After Clare comes running down the stairs screaming she yells to John but mistakenly calls him George.

This has been removed from some versions.

When John discovers the door hidden by shelving, when he is removing the shelving and items from in front of the door, after he removes the second shelf suddenly the door is completely uncovered despite there being many more things he would've first had to remove.

Drivel ....Watched in 2020 and I get you have to put perspective into things as it was made in 1980's and I'm a massive fan of 70/80s horror but I still think I would have thought it was drivel if I had watched it when it was released.

This movie is a somber, slow-moving, creepy haunted house-type movie. "The Conjuring" wishes it could be this movie.

Excellent ghost story. George C.

A cold, creepy & chilling haunted house horror that comes equipped with a dark, disquieting atmosphere and is all the more boosted by George C. Scott's assured performance, The Changeling is a smartly crafted slow-burn chiller that takes its time with the premise but nonetheless keeps us interested & invested in its story with consistent delivery of thrills & frights.

Strange that I should see the same director that made this ended up doing stuff like Species II. Where did he go?

"The Changeling" is one of the best horror films ever made, a story about a ghost, a haunted house and a sad man. The script is creepy as hell with a great atmosphere, old dismal locations, an amazing cinematography and superb actings, mainly George C.

The Changeling is without a doubt the most frightening movie I have seen to date. The only other that comes close is Dark Night of the Scarecrow which is very hard to find...

It looks like an old film. It has the style and colouring and picture damage that you would expect from a film of this age.

A well known composer John Russell (George C. Scott) loses his wife and daughter in a tragic car wreck, and he seeks solace in taking a job as a music professor near Seattle.