Released in early 1980, but clearly a product of the ’70s, Peter Medak‘s The Changeling is home to pretty much everything that made the ’70s such a great decade for horror. With George C. Scott in the lead, The Changeling was a classy, elegant and genuinely terrifying horror movie… one that, oddly enough, hasn’t yet been released on Blu-ray.
But the wait is coming to an end, as Blu-ray.com reports this week that Severin Films is currently working on a Blu-ray release of The Changeling that’ll be jam-packed with bonus content and will boast a brand new 4K restoration of the film!
The site notes, full details and date for the release are expected to be revealed soon.
In The Changeling, “Mad with grief over the deaths of his wife and daughter, composer George C. Scott decides to retire from the world into an ominous, remote mansion—but he’s got company, in the form of a murdered child’s restless spirit. Based on recorded supernatural incidents at the Henry Treat Rogers Mansion in Denver, Peter Medak’s gracefully shot, relentlessly atmospheric film is one of the most spine- tinglingly effective haunted house movies ever made, one sure to instill in new viewers a lifelong fear of self-propelling wheelchairs and rubber balls.”
