The Changeling (1980)

Actors: Andrew G. Vajna (producer), Andrew G. Vajna (miscellaneous crew), George C. Scott (actor), Mario Kassar (producer), Jean Marsh (actress), Mario Kassar (miscellaneous crew), Barry Morse (actor), Melvyn Douglas (actor), Bernard Behrens (actor), Giancarlo Esposito (actor), Louis Zorich (actor), Terence Kelly (actor), John Colicos (actor), Antonia Rey (actress), Roberta Maxwell (actress),

Plot: It was the perfect family vacation for composer John Russell and his family when a freak automobile accident claims the lives of his wife and daughter. Consumed by grief, John, at the request of friends, rents an old turn of the century house. Mammoth in size, the house seems all the room that John needs to write music and reflect. He does not realize that he is not alone in the house. He shares it with the spirit of a murdered child who has homed in on John's despair and uses him to uncover decades of silence and deceit. With the help of Claire Norman, the one who aided John in procuring the house, they race to find the answers and soon learn that a devious and very powerful man guards them.

Keywords: airliner, airport, ambulance, apparition, art, atlas, attic, avenging-spirit, ball, bathtub
Genres: Horror, Thriller,
Taglines: ...an experience beyond total fear. Two people live in this house. One of them has been dead for 70 years. "How did you die, Joseph...? Did you die in this house...? Why do you remain...?" Whatever you do...DON'T GO INTO THE ATTIC.

Quotes:

Minnie Huxley: That house is not fit to live in. No one's been able to live in it. It doesn't want people.

John Russell: It's my understanding... that there are, uh... twenty-three students registered... for this series of lectures on advanced musical form. Now, we all know it's not raining outside, and unless there's a fire in some other part of the building that we don't know about, there's an awful lot of people here with nothing better to do.

De Witt: I understand you lost your wife and daughter a little while ago. Maybe it shook you up. Maybe too much... *Maybe*, you need help.::John Russell: I'd like you to leave now...::De Witt: [making his threat a bit more clear] We can see that you get it... do you understand what I'm saying?::John Russell: [points to the door] Out! Now!::De Witt: [pressing] Listen to me, Russell! You've got something of the Senator's... he wants it back. It's a little gold medal, a family heirloom, he lost it. He thinks *you've* got it.

John Russell: [to Senator Carmichael] You're the beneficiary of the worst kind of murder... murder for profit!

John Russell: You goddamn son of a bitch. What is it you want? [shouting] What do you want from me? I've done everything I can do! [pause] There's nothing more to do.