Clint Eastwood never acted in or directed a horror movie. In 2007, he got as close as he’d ever get

Clint Eastwood has worked across many film genres but never made a conventional horror film as an actor or director. He came closest with *Changeling*, which he described as “a horror story for adults”, and took over directing it after Ron Howard left the project.

The 2007 film is set in 1928 and follows Christine Collins, whose nine-year-old son disappears and returns five months later, though she insists the boy is not her child. Angelina Jolie played Collins and received an Oscar nomination for the performance; the article says her work elevated an otherwise predictable dramatic thriller.