Very Slow and Boring. Plot/Dialogue/Acting Sucked.Best part: When George C Scott made a phone call and fell down. Perfect fall. Great.The rest of the movie was so slow and boring, with crappy acting and plot that it took me 4 sittings to watch the whole movie. It has a professional and thought through cinematography. Some cool effects at the end, nothing great. The dialogue and the acting were painful. The character interactions were really wooden. Script needed more work and some excitement. Not to be found. I don't know if this was based on a book, but the movie played out like it was copying a reading. I'd give it a grade of C/D, the C is for the cinematography, D is for the rest of the movie. Hard to watch.

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...I find that most movies today classified within the horror genre are just blood and gore...I can go to the local butcher shop for that.....I couldn't sleep after seeing the Changeling as I found it unnerving..and creepy...It is probably the last of the great horror films that accomplish an atmosphere of horror through suggestion of imminent danger with only sound,minimal chilling visuals and acting....actual acting, not the histrionics of individuals qualifying for anger management therapy. One will not be disappointed by this film,..I have not seen another like it

I will advice you to see this film in the complete darkness and with a good sound home theater, it deserves a good big screen, and a great sound. This movie is based on the sound and what you cannot see. It delivers the kind of scare that continues with you when you have to go the kitchen in the darkness and you feel forced to turn on the lights of the hall to get to the kitchen. It is scary, but in a smooth way and it builds more and more until you feel really scared. I invite you to see this movie but with a good sound, because without it, it lost the 70% of its Art, yes this movie is art. We need this kind of artists working on the current horror movies.

John Russell (George C. Scott) loses his wife and daughter when their car breaks down on the side of a snowy road in upstate NY. He rents an old house to write music and recover from the loss. The large mansion turns out to be haunted by the ghost of a murdered child. Claire Norman (Trish Van Devere) from the historical society helped him get the mansion. She helps him in finding and solving his spirit problem. They discover a book from 1904 in the sealed attic room. The boy had been killed and replaced with another boy who is now Sen. Joseph Carmichael (Melvyn Douglas). There is something cold and desolate about the style of this horror. It's old fashion. There are some funhouse stuff especially with the wheelchair. There isn't much blood and gore. It's a solid ghost story. The mystery is a little bit obscure. The movie needs an extra scene where Russell explains the entire story to Claire or somebody. George C. Scott holds it all together with a solid performance.