Nightmare Fuel / The Changeling (1980)

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• The scene where John goes upstairs to turn off the bathtub tap in the third floor bathroom. He suddenly sees Joseph's body turning open-eyed in the water, with water bubbles distorting his features.
• The seance scene, especially the shots in the ghost's point of view as the he closes in on the group of five seated around the table.
• While listening to the audio tape recording made of a spirit-writer's attempt to contact the ghost, the murdered boy's voice can be heard desperately whispering... something that was completely inaudible during the scene in which the tape was made.
• When John figures out where the body has been buried, he goes there and finds that a house has been built on the spot with a mother and her little girl living there. The little girl had seen a little boy climbing out of her floor, and is too afraid to go into the room again, choosing to sleep in her mom's bed instead. We then see the little girl that night as she slowly gets out of bed and walks to her room, the scene framed in a dreamlike, unreal manner, and see her slowly walk back to her room... And suddenly she screams, and we see Joseph floating in a hole in the floor.
• When the wheelchair begins to chase Claire.
• The entire premise of the film. On the one hand, there is John who is agonising over what he could have done differently to save his daughter's life. On the other hand, there are people like Joseph's father who murder their own children for profit.
• The iconic scene of John's daughter's ball dropping down the stairs and slowly rolling into his vision. We see him take the ball and drop it off a bridge in order to deal with his grief, and as he returns home, it somehow followed him. In any other film, a shot of a man staring in abject horror at a little rubber ball would be ridiculous, but here, it's one of the scariest scenes in film history.
• Captain DeWitt, the police officer working for Carmichael, adds a significant level of very real fear to the film in his one scene. Imagine you're trying to uncover something horrific solely because it's the right thing to do, with no ulterior motive aside from putting a ghost's soul to rest. Then imagine the person you need to communicate what you've found to in order to do that assuming that you're trying to blackmail him for money, so he sends a police officer to threaten you with being put in a mental asylum and declared insane unless you stop your investigation. DeWitt's sudden, shocking death after he leaves is just the icing on the cake.