Winchester

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Winchester

PG-13

2018

1h 39m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

Biography

Drama

Fantasy

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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.

Critics Consensus

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.

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Roxana Hadadi

Mediaversity Reviews

11/18/2021

D

The stereotyping of Black and Indigenous men are made worse by the fact they never speak, nor do they have any backstories.

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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.

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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.

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn

Me gusta el cine

Jul 1

3/5

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].

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

08/21/2022

1.5/5

A bizarrely unremarkable slog that takes an interesting idea and does absolutely nothing with it.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

03/14/2022

1.5/4

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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edu h

@RT61157137 02/02/2025

Buena película, cumple el objetivo del género: Asustar. Buenas actuaciones, musicalización ad-hoc ambientación inquietante. La recomiendo.

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dead e

@RT43720447 07/24/2024

One of very few horror movies I was able to tolerate in that it wasn't all jump scares, gore, and nonsense... an actual storyline and a very pleasant ending that had some genuine emotion tied in... most of these reviews pander on about how bad it was without actually giving a legitimate reason but that's because there is no reason. If you have a heart and good taste in a story with horror mixed in well then this is the movie for you!

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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)

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