Starring Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook, Helen Mirren. Depending on parents’ tolerance of the violent conclusion (an ironic ending for a movie that seems to be taking its own shot at lax gun laws), older teens may find this haunted house entertaining enough to be worth a visit.ĭirected by Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig. Also, it is nearly clear of profanities and sexual content. While lacking in creativity, Winchester still has enough blind corners to keep you wondering what’s around the next one. As well, there is the portrayal of a young boy, presumably possessed, who falls from a rooftop. The depictions become increasingly intense and include scenes of a mass shooting and others being taken down by Winchester’s bullets. These metaphysical confrontations ramp up for a big finale (that just happens to coincide with an historical earthquake). Jump scenes are plentiful, along with glimpses of ghoulish faces. The outcome of having a stoned shrink spend a few days with a haunted heiress in a dark and spooky mansion is the stuff classic Hollywood horror flicks are made of – and this script hits all the bases. It doesn’t take much persuasion for Eric to accept the offer to take a trip to the countryside and have Sarah committed. His own abuse of the drug provides recurring visions of his late wife who was a victim of a self-inflicted gunshot (yes, from a Winchester weapon). Yet it will take just the right sort of disreputable doctor to make the judgement call – and the board is happy to supply a bribe.Įric Price (Jason Clarke) may call himself a physician, but the San Francisco resident’s favorite remedy is the highly-addictive laudanum. After all, a major shareholder convinced her company’s flagship product is evil, can’t be good for business. Meanwhile, back at the firing range, the directors of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company would like nothing more than to have the woman declared insane. The heiress has the habit of chatting with the deceased while rambling through the corridors of her home and locking misbehaving entities into bedrooms barred shut with 13 nails. Helen Mirren plays Sarah, who still owns half of her husband’s company. By 1906, when the film begins its story, the domicile is seven stories high with about 90 rooms. The 24 hour a day, 7 days a week construction of the rambling Winchester House, an architectural mess of dozens of bedrooms, with hallways and staircases leading to nowhere, began in the 1880s. Interleaving just enough truth to leave us wondering if the unbelievable is believable, the movie Winchester takes us inside what is still one of San Jose, California’s most visited tourist attractions. Was Sarah Lockwood Winchester, the widow of gun maker William Winchester, crazy? Does she actually see the ghosts of the many who died from the use of his rifles? And are they really directing her to build endless rooms onto her sprawling California mansion?
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