Visible crew/equipment: When Claire is showing John the house for the first time you can see the shadow of the camera on the tablecloth on top of the piano when John approaches it. (00:09:57)
The Changeling (1980)
Plot summary
Directed by: Peter Medak
Starring: George C. Scott, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Marsh, Trish Van Devere
John Russell (Scott), a composer and music professor, loses his wife and daughter in a tragic accident. Seeking solace, he moves into an old mansion unoccupied for twelve years. But a child-like presence seems to be sharing the house, and trying to share its secrets, with him. Through research into the house's past and a seance held within, Russell discovers the horrific secret of the house's past, a secret that the presence will no longer allow to be kept.
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More mistakes in The Changeling
Minnie Huxley: That house is not fit to live in. No one's been able to live in it. It doesn't want people.
Trivia: Martin Scorsese called "The Changeling" one of the eleven scariest movies ever made in a list he published.
Question: Carmichael died at his home. Was it his ghost or something else that John saw in the house as it was burning?
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Answer: It was implied to be his "spirit" or "soul" that John saw.
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