The Changeling

Peter Medak's The Changeling is among a handful of films, including The Haunting (1963), Ghost Story (1981), and Lady in White (1988), that have successfully recreated the intimate, drawing-room atmosphere of supernatural horror fiction. After his wife and daughter are killed in a snowbound car ...more

Though woefully uneven as a filmmaker (responsible for such extremes as the boondogglish Ghost in the Noonday Sun and the critically lauded gangster melodrama The Krays), director-for-hire Peter Medak's acclaim should have risen dramatically with The Changeling, a solid horror sleeper that won 1980's Genie Award for Best Picture. The intelligence lies in the direction -- few (if any) American or Canadian thrillers have taken a central cliché as worn-thin as the haunted house and reinvented it as ...more