
Inspired by true events. On an isolated stretch of land fifty miles outside of San Francisco sits the most haunted house in the world. Built by Sarah Winchester (Dame 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 an outsider it looks like a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman's madness. ... (Full plot summary below)
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Inspired by true events. On an isolated stretch of land fifty miles outside of San Francisco sits the most haunted house in the world. Built by Sarah Winchester (Dame 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 an outsider it looks like a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman's madness. But Sarah is not building for herself, for her niece Marion (Sarah Snook), nor for the brilliant Dr. Eric Price (Jason Clarke), who she has summoned to the house. She is building a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts, and the most terrifying amongst them have a score to settle with the Winchesters.
Leave your thoughts about Winchester.
| ABC Radio BrisbaneMatthew ToomeyThe house is more interesting than any individual - and even it gets a bit boring after the opening hour. |
| Bowling Green Daily NewsMicheal ComptonDespite the presence of Helen Mirren, this is a dull, plodding horror film that could have easily taken place in any house and it really wouldn't have made any difference. |
| RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsWhat Winchester lacks in originality its creators amply make up for in execution. |
| Hollywood ReporterStephen DaltonMirren always brings a touch of class, of course, even to deluxe schlock like this. But Clarke is something of a blank leading man while the secondary characters are mostly pale phantoms sleepwalking through a thinly drawn plot. |
| ChrisStuckmann.comChris StuckmannBeyond the performances and the production design and the fact that the movie does look good, there's really not that much to like here. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian Orndorf"Winchester" is a drag, and while it retains visual potency, the screenplay never comes together in an exciting manner. |
| Fresh FictionCourtney HowardWhat should have been a fun, entertaining jaunt winds up being a maddening, frightful bore. |
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekAs far as horror movies go nowadays, it's relatively restrained and stylish, but also pretty silly...merges tedium and absurdity in approximately equal measure. |
| Projected FiguresAnton Bitel[the house's] structure reflects that of the film - a creaky accumulation of tropes from all manner of haunted house movies, stitched together into an impressive if ungainly edifice. |
| San Francisco ExaminerJeffrey M. AndersonFans of the real house... will find some things to cherish in the first half of "Winchester," but by the time it ends, it's like a spent rifle. It made a lot of noise, and now it's empty. |