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Like a grand staircase within the famous mansion that inspired it, Winchester appears poised to get a rise out of audiences, but ultimately leads nowhere.
Roxana Hadadi Mediaversity Reviews 11/18/2021 The stereotyping of Black and Indigenous men are made worse by the fact they never speak, nor do they have any backstories. Go to Full Review J. R. Jones Chicago Reader 03/09/2020 Directors Michael and Peter Spierig, reworking a script by Tom Vaughan, bring little passion or eloquence to the dialogue, frustrating such capable actors as Helen Mirren (playing Winchester) and Jason Clarke. Go to Full Review Mark Kermode Kermode & Mayo's Film Review 08/28/2018 It's not good. And it's not good in a way that's made worse by the fact that there's so much potential in this story. Go to Full Review Sebastian Zavala Kahn Me gusta el cine Jul 1 Better than its horrible reviews would lead us to believe, but inferior to what I would have expected from a film with a cast of this calibre. [Full review in Spanish]. Go to Full Review Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies 08/21/2022 A bizarrely unremarkable slog that takes an interesting idea and does absolutely nothing with it. Go to Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review 03/14/2022 The movie resolves to check every box of a modern supernatural horror flick, and through that, the surprisingly talented cast doesn't have much to do. Go to Full Review Read all reviews
R T @RT80239937 2d I liked the feel and flow of this movie. I found the concept of constantly building and rebuilding a house fascinating. I loved the cast, perfect. This movie didn't rely on a gazillion cheap jump scares, although I like jump scares. It had a good storyline. Intelligent quality movie I watched through to the end and will watch again.. so many modern movies I start only to ditch ten minutes in these days. See more Downriver R @Downriver Feb 20 This was a great adventure/horror with a slight Gothic old time feel. Great actors I'm this. Jason Clark is excellent in this. This is a must see for anybody that loves the horror genre. Production is great. Acting is great. Directing is also swell. See more Penny L @LadyOfTheLawn Jan 4 A gothic house, a grieving heiress, and Winchester starring Helen Mirren should have been a triumph Let us speak of the accents. They are not merely bad; they are geographically untethered. A sort of haunted, theme park American that belongs nowhere on earth and certainly not San Jose, California. I am not American, yet I found myself cringing on behalf of Americans everywhere, particularly those who must live within driving distance of the actual house and endure this auditory fiction. Helen Mirren does her utmost, swathed in mourning and dignity, but even she cannot rescue a script so terribly written! The true horror is not the ghosts. It is the squandered potential. A missed opportunity of grand proportions, and a film that left me longing not for the dead, but for a competent dialect coach and a stronger script. I shall now retire to the garden to recover. See more Charles P @RT36323923 Oct 14 The real story would've been more interesting. Then again, watching paint dry would be more interesting than this steaming pile of wasted time and money. See more Ana G @RT76272466 Jun 25 I didn't even knew this existed, had potential but fell short and definitely nothing about this screams horror or terror See more edu h @RT61157137 02/02/2025 Buena película, cumple el objetivo del género: Asustar. Buenas actuaciones, musicalización ad-hoc ambientación inquietante. La recomiendo. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis The most haunted house in the world sits on an isolated stretch of land that's 50 miles outside of San Francisco. Built by Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester fortune, 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's actually building a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts -- and the most terrifying among them have a score to settle with the Winchesters.
Director
Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Producer
Tim McGahan, Brett Tomberlin
Screenwriter
Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, Tom Vaughan
Distributor
Lionsgate Films
Production Co
Diamond Pictures, Blacklab Entertainment, CBS Films, Bullitt Entertainment, Lions Gate Films, Imagination Design Works
Rating
PG-13 (Drug Content|Disturbing Images|Some Sexual Material|Thematic Elements|Violence)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 2, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 1, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA)
$25.1M
Runtime
1h 39m
Aspect Ratio
Scope (2.35:1)