L'enfant du diable

Titre original : The Changeling

1980
13+
1h 47m

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,1/10

42 k

MA NOTE

Liretrailer2 min 12 s

2 vidéos

99+ photos

Horror Mystery

Après la mort de sa femme et de sa fille dans un accident de voiture, un professeur de musique résidant dans un vieux manoir se voit mêlé à une affaire de meurtre d'enfant datant de plusieur... Tout lireAprès la mort de sa femme et de sa fille dans un accident de voiture, un professeur de musique résidant dans un vieux manoir se voit mêlé à une affaire de meurtre d'enfant datant de plusieurs décennies par une présence inexplicable dans le grenier du manoir.Après la mort de sa femme et de sa fille dans un accident de voiture, un professeur de musique résidant dans un vieux manoir se voit mêlé à une affaire de meurtre d'enfant datant de plusieurs décennies par une présence inexplicable dans le grenier du manoir.

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

ÉVALUATION IMDb

7,1/10

42 k

MA NOTE

Voir l’information sur la production à IMDbPro

Prix
- 11 victoires et 5 nominations au total

Anecdotes
The house seen in the movie in real life doesn't and never actually did exist. The film-makers could not find a suitable mansion to use for the film so at a cost of around $200,000, the production had a Victorian gothic mansion facade attached to the front of a much more modern dwelling in a Vancouver street. This construction was used for the filming of all the exteriors of the movie's Carmichael Mansion. The interiors of the haunted house were an elaborate group of interconnecting sets built inside a film studio in Vancouver.

Gaffes
After Claire comes running down the stairs screaming she yells to John but mistakenly calls him George for George C. Scott. This has been removed from some versions.

Citations
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.

Autres versions
The Japanese theatrical version contains the alternative ending theme, titled "Pike", sung by Makigami Koichi, a pseudo-kabuki vocalist who led the rock band called "HIKASHU", replacing the original "Music Box" theme song conducted by Howard Blake. The local Japanese TV (dubbed) version also contains the similar "Pike" theme from "HIKASHU", but while the original theatrical version was in Japanese as supposed to be, the song in the TV version was remarkably sung in English.

Connexions
Featured in Sneak Previews: Serial, The Changeling, My Brilliant Career, Foxes, Nijinsky (1980)

Bandes originales
Symphony No. 1 in C minor Op. 68
Composed by Johannes Brahms (as Brahms)
Performed by The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Kazuyoshi Akiyama

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Commentaire en vedette

8/10

Very scary and atmospheric horror film

In this sadly forgotten horror film, George C. Scott plays a music composer who has just moved to Oregon to escape the painful memories of his wife and daughter who were killed in a car crash. He rents an old and secluded mansion from the historical society as a place to live. Soon after he moves into the house, strange occurrences begin.

This is one of those horror movies that can be scary without being bloody and gory. It simply relies on atmosphere and frightening, but subtle images to deliver its chills, and it works. I will never be able to understand that "R" rating mainly because there is only very mild profanity and there is no blood or gore. Anyway, I would recommend this film to anyone who enjoys a good scary ghost story. 8/10.