The Changeling - Peter Medak.
The obvious comparison film here is The Shining. Both feature a scary old building with noises and bouncing objects. There's a guy and a girl and a kid. Ok, I'm stretching a bit there, but the real comparison point is in the camera. There's a whole lot of steadicaming going on. Like every shot in the house starts in one room and goes through a hallway and ends up in another room. It builds the house as being one scary place to live.
The problem is that, outside of a few moments, it's not very scary. Once you find out what the problem is everything becomes rote for the last third. There's a problem with these "dead person uses alive person to get revenge" movies: once they tell you that the scary thing is a "good guy" they get less scary and the movie falters. The Changeling partially avoids that, but only partially. The ending is, again, quite good. I just wish these movies would remember that we aren't here for a murder mystery. We're here to be scared.
This is my second Shocktober movie. I'm gonna keep track of repeated elements at the bottom of my reviews.
Returning objects: 2 (ItMoM, The Changeling)
Gothic buildings: 2 (ItMoM, The Changeling)