Winchester

20182018
PG-13PG-13
1h 39min

Helen Mirren in Winchester (2018)

On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside of San Francisco sits the most haunted house in the world. Built by Sarah Winchester, 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 or for the brilliant Doctor Eric Price 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...

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Ensconced in her sprawling San Jose, California mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (Dame Helen Mirren) believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.Ensconced in her sprawling San Jose, California mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (Dame Helen Mirren) believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.Ensconced in her sprawling San Jose, California mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (Dame Helen Mirren) believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.Ensconced in her sprawling San Jose, California mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (Dame Helen Mirren) believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.Ensconced in her sprawling San Jose, California mansion, eccentric firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (Dame Helen Mirren) believes she is haunted by the souls of people killed by the Winchester repeating rifle.

Directors
- Michael Spierig
- Peter Spierig
Writers
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Awards
- 6 wins & 10 nominations

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Helen Mirren in Winchester (2018)

Helen Mirren in Winchester (2018)

Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke in Winchester (2018)

Helen Mirren in Winchester (2018)

Helen Mirren in Winchester (2018)

Winchester (2018)

Helen Mirren in Winchester (2018)

Jason Clarke and Laura Brent in Winchester (2018)

Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke in Winchester (2018)

Sarah Snook and Finn Scicluna-O'Prey in Winchester (2018)

Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke in Winchester (2018)

Helen Mirren in Winchester (2018)

Directors
- Michael Spierig
- Peter Spierig
Writers
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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.

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Taglines
- She is Not Alone.
Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images, drug content, some sexual material and thematic elements
Parents guide

Trivia
Very little of the filming took place in the actual mansion. The mansion's design in reality is extremely cramped, making filming very difficult. As such, most of the mansion's interior needed to be re-created on soundstages.

Goofs
A large portion of the movie has to deal with the famous Winchester lever-action rifle being used during the American Civil War. This is factually wrong. The first Winchester lever-action model did not appear until after the war, in 1866. The similar-looking Henry rifle and the Spencer rifle were the main repeaters used during the war, and even then repeating rifles were themselves rare on the average Civil War battlefield. Most troops used then-traditional single-shot weapons, primarily "rifle-muskets."

Quotes
Dr. Eric Price: I do not believe in anything I cannot see or study.

Connections
Featured in The Graham Norton Show: Dame Helen Mirren/Liam Neeson/Jamie Dornan/Sigrid (2018)

Soundtracks
My Wild Irish Rose
Written by Chauncey Olcott (as C. Olcott)
Performed by John McCormack
Courtesy of Essential Media Group LLC

Top review

6/10

A good film, just a bit toothless.

I saw a trailer for this, and was instantly dying to watch it, sadly though, as is so ifyen the case, they flattered to deceive. It's not a bad film, I would go so far as to say it's a decent watch, maybe my expectations were just too high. It just fails to deliver on the excellent premise, there is subtlety, and then there's dull, and for me, Winchester languishes somewhere between the two. The scares are non existent, there are one or two good ones, but I expected so many more, they could have gone to town with these parameters. The best single element, as many would expect is the presence of Helen Mirren, who is terrific, but in all truth, slightly under used.

It looks fantastic, it's well acted, if you're looking for a horror with bite, you'll be disappointed, if you're after an intriguing, spooky tale, then you may well enjoy it. 6/10

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Budget
- $3,500,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $25,091,816
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,307,626
- Feb 4, 2018
Gross worldwide
- $44,019,588

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Runtime
- 1h 39min
Color
- Color
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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