If you read my review of The Hospital , you may have noticed that I am enough of a fan named George C. Scott, the actor best known to the general public for his role in Dr. Strangelove in Stanley Kubrick but also for playing the famous General Patton and refused his Best Actor Oscar for his performance. So when it comes to fantasy film about a very successful and underrated, the late actor that door again on his shoulders, I say this clearly. And then we must say that even if this film released in 1980 enjoyed its small reputation among connoisseurs snoops, he still needs a good little push to do more know. Indeed, The Changeling is not painted: in addition to being stupidly retitled in French The Devil's Child (although there is no mention of Satan), he has exactly the same as the original that A recent Hollywood melodrama undrinkable made by a legend on the decline in the service of an actress ridiculous surname oxymoron. In addition, the director of The Changeling, Peter Medak, has absolutely done nothing notable, neither before nor after. Oh yes, he is known to have made at least one episode of each series are American, from 17 to Home to The Gang Bang Theory through Dr House woman doctor. Oh it made him work, he never bothered, but then it is not with how we will remember him ... In short, for short: this film, it is not many people know him and to modestly try to repair this anomaly. 
The film begins in a very brutal. George C. Scott is with his wife and daughter leaving for a weekend with family when their car breaks down on a very snowy mountain road. So he called a convenience store from a phone booth, George C. Scott attends helplessly a terrible accident caused by a truck whose driver apparently lost control and just launched at full speed, embedded in his family who unwittingly played on the floor. The atmosphere rather cheerful and light that prevailed until now is as it were fucking in the air. This introduction will weigh terrible and tragic, oddly enough, throughout the rest of the film as a souvenir too heavy and uncomfortable that we keep with us, sadly, like the main character, a broken man, which is found some time later, moving to a big haunted mansion and also contains a terrible secret ...
The Changeling is prima facie a banal story haunted house. But gradually, the intelligence of a well-crafted screenplay that manages to keep us in suspense until the end, the staging very simple but nice Applied maker behind it, and above all, flawless interpretation by George C . Scott, are ultimately a film quite remarkable. Everything here is very well led. Some scenes, however, all animals are very efficient and able to use without fear of easy, sound (no sudden moves violins) or visual (Nothing monstrous or gore in the picture). I think this particular scene where a spiritualist medium is therefore communicate with the spirit haunting the house where the tension builds to a crescendo. And I remember at the moment this time a priori trivial, where after George C. Scott left a room, the plan drags curiously, ending sharply on the sound produced by a particularly dissonant piano key that was pressed on her own ... That may be me who am a wimp, but at this point, I literally did it, and I confess it without shame, in my baggy yet hardened. Perhaps also that any it works because we are easily attached to the character played by George C. Scott and we share his misery. With his hangdog look and allure of old colossus damaged by life, the actor has in his powerful presence and ghostly all the trouble in the world. We follow him willingly into an investigation that leads to the bereavement of his own tragedy at the same time he discovers a horrifying story plausible rather far-fetched, as is unfortunately too often the case in films of this genre today.
I think this film is for example much better than the best known yet Poltergeist, which dates from the same period but has the advantage of having stuck to him the very name of seller Steven Spielberg, his producer and screenwriter, so it's really Tobe Hooper, the man of a single film, which was canned, uninspired. But The Changeling is first, as I said, a very good fantasy film, which is ultimately something quite rare, especially nowadays, where it is fashionable to send itself works forgotten the past.
of The Changeling with George C. Peter Medak Scott and Trish Van Devere Melvyn Douglas (1980)
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