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Ep 116 - THE CHANGELING (1980): ONE OF THE BEST GHOST STORIES EVER MADE!!
THE CHANGELING (1980) d. Peter Medak (Canada)
(Apologies for the tech issues during the last 4-5 minutes! We were battling the ghost of Joseph Carmichael!)
Tonight we're discussing The Changeling (1980), Peter Medak's stellar haunted house tale which usually takes a back seat to the big-budget envisioning of Stephen King's The Shining, released the same year. But in many ways, this small Canadian film, loaded with creepy atmosphere and tightly fashioned suspense sequences, surpasses the ax-swinging histrionics that Kubrick and Co. dish out.
As grieving composer John Russell, recovering from…
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