I went to the Metrograph and saw The Changeling, a 1980 horror film starring George C. Scott as a grief-stricken man staying in a house with a haunted ghost history. It was a fairly effective haunted house story, with a really interesting backstory of a cover-up by a wealthy family, and Scott often had a low-key quality to his performance, not overacting the reactions, but either looking perturbed by random oddness (piano playing by itself, hearing ghostly voices at night), or, in unintentional humor, having a annoyed attitude to whatever new weird thing happened, like he wasn’t even surprised anymore.
I also like watching old films to see uses of now retro-technology, like reel-to-reel tape recorders to record a seance or using a microfiche machine to look up articles from 1909. I just like seeing how people used technology that is now considered archaic or obsolete.
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