This was scary. But I am pretty disappointed after seeing this for the first time. All the hype I had heard and read about this being such a scary film, completely let me down. It was a good story, but not scary.
shareI feel the same way about The Exorcist but I'm so desensitized now that movies don't scare me as much as they used to. I still find The Changeling scarier than The Exorcist.
shareI've got another movie out. He was good in Sons of Anarchy!
shareIt was a tv series first.
shareI was three when The Changeling premiered, so, naturally, I did not see it in theaters. However, it was one of those movies that constantly aired on TV in the '80's. I don't believe they needed to edit out any coarse language and there was no need to censor blood and gore. Still, it was utterly terrifying - at least to an 8 - 10-year-old boy, like myself.
My father had seen it (likely in 1980), and he warned me not to watch it when it aired on our local channels. One night, while my babysitter was likely on the phone with her boyfriend, I started watching it. I didn't even make it all the way through, but that seance, the bouncing rubber ball, and the flashbacks of the murder of a child really scared the hell out of me. I didn't want to turn out the lights, I had bad dreams, and my dad, while sympathetic, did say, "I told you so."