The Changeling Film Comment Selects Special Screening
Friday, October 31 at 9pm
Peter Medak’s underrated 1980 haunted house film is about a composer (George C. Scott) whose wife and daughter are killed in a freak accident. To overcome his grief, he rents an old mansion in Washington state and soon finds that it is inhabited by the ghost of a drowned child seeking a just accounting of his fate.
Evocatively shot by erstwhile Peckinpah collaborator John Coquillon, The Changeling is an exceptionally artful and evocative piece of horror in the tradition of Val Lewton and The Uninvited, infused with an overwhelming sense of grief and loss.
Scott is excellent in the lead, as are Trish Van Devere (the real-life Mrs. Scott), Melvyn Douglas and Jean Marsh in supporting roles. The director has a hand in this rare New York showing: We thank him for the loan of his personal print.
Admission:
$11 public
$8 senior (62+)
$7 Film Society member & student (with ID)
$7 child (6-12, accompanied by an adult)
Please note: $1.25 service charge per ticket ordered online and cash only transactions at the box office.
