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Winchester Movie Review

Winchester Directed by the Spierig Brothers (Predestination, DayBreakers) Written by Tom Vaughan (Unstoppable, Playing House) & the Spierig Brothers. Starring Helen Mirren (Hitchcock, The Queen) Sarah Snook (Steve Jobs, Predestination) Jadon Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Everest) & Emm Wiseman (Celeste, The Pitch). 

Inspired by true events. On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside of San Francisco sits the most haunted house in the world. Built by Sarah Winchester, (Academy Award®-winner Helen Mirren) heiress to the Winchester fortune, it is a house that knows no end. Constructed in an incessant twenty-four hour a day, seven day a week mania for decades, it stands seven stories tall and contains hundreds of rooms. To the outsider it looks like a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman's madness. But Sarah is not building for herself, for her niece (Sarah Snook) or for the brilliant Doctor Eric Price (Jason Clarke) whom she has summoned to the house. She is building a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts, and the most terrifying among them have a score to settle with the Winchesters.

Had extreme high hopes for this film I tend to enjoy haunted house horrors because of the suspense but lately they haven’t been that great. You add a talented cast to the mix stir that up with it being based off real events and you may have something. What history has shown though is that most true event films in this genre don’t really attract well. The conjuring succeeded as well as the sequel but place this movie in February before the release of a huge blockbuster (Black Panther) that gave me a pause. So what do I think about this film? I think this movie is absolutely terrible and a waste of time. The concept of the film is outrageous and the use of jump scares is cheap. I didn’t really want to do a review for this film but it was requested and so this movie is really not worth the time to see. The trailers were intriguing but the acting especially from a talented cast. The climax to the film was a joke and the reasoning behind building the mansion is another joke in itself. The explanation as to what these ghosts want makes absolutely no sense and the stakes are just ludicrous. 

Final Score: 1.7/10


Rotten Tomatoes Score: 10%

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