Monster of the Day #3293

Updated on November 1, 2021 By Ken Begg 7 Comments

So Friday for the first time in two years (and I missed the last one, so it’s been a three year gap for me) my old libraries friends and I had our Halloween party. I showed Ship of Monsters (ahhhhhhh) for the goofy first movie, and for the more series second film I finally broke out my copy of 1980’s The Changeling. I’d never seen it, I love ghost movies, and it has a good reputation.

It was pretty good, exactly what I wanted. It’s about the slow ratcheting up of tension, which is my favorite style of horror. George C. Scott is unsurprisingly very good, and it’s perhaps his most understated performance that I’ve seen. It’s not as good as The Haunting (well, duh) or The Innocents, but it’s as good as Haunting of Hell House, or maybe a bit better. Recommended.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    I remember seeing this one years ago. It’s really very good.

  • Gamera977

    Haven’t seen this one in thirty or so years. Waaaaaay back in ancient times the local FOX affiliate (or maybe it was before they joined FOX) before ‘Married With Children’, before ‘The Simpsons’ (kids ask your parents – yeah there was a time before ‘The Simpsons!’) broadcast this one pretty often. I saw it three or four times but never since then. I remember it as being pretty darn good. Yeah, not ‘The Haunting’ good but good.

    And I watched ‘The Haunting’ again last night as my annual Halloween movie.

  • A well-made and well-acted movie, but it just didn’t quite make it for me.

    It’s another one of those movies where a heck of a lot of the plot happens because NO ONE can come out and say “Yes, the house is almost certainly haunted, there was a bit of a scandal there decades ago….”

  • Eric Hinkle

    I’ve had this film recommended to me many times as a great ghost film, but I’ve never seen it. Maybe I should just take the plunge and watch it.

  • Ken_Begg

    It’s definitely one to watch in a quiet house at night. Just to soak that mood in.

  • That’s about the length of time for me, too. And only once, but it does sort of stick with you.

    Still, Hell House has Pamela Franklin and thus has the edge.

  • Ken_Begg

    And Roddy McDowell.