Review of Winchester (2018) by Rebecca31 — 04 Feb 2018

Every once in a while you get a horror movie that is so painfully terrible it's funny. Well let me tell you that Winchester is not that kind of horror movie. It takes the real life story of the Winchester mansion, perhaps the most haunted house in the world and turns it into a bland, boring and predictable horror movie not worth your time or money. .

Helen Mirren plays Sarah Winchester, haunted by the ghosts of people killed by the Winchester rifle. But one ghost isn't like the other ghosts, he won't stay peacefully in his room, no this ghost is here for revenge. The house is under constant construction, dismantling and rebuilding room after room for all these lost souls day and night. Jason Clarke as doctor Eric Price is sent by the Winchester company to assess Helen Mirren's mental state. Similar to all those other haunted house movies you've seen before only this time the house is bigger, there's more ghosts and almost every single scene does that typical horror movie trope were everything goes very quiet while something waits in the darkness to burst out with a bang and give you a fright. "Are you scared yet?" jump scare. "How about now?" jump scare. "Ooh you're definitely scared now right?" Jump scare, jump scare, Wilhelm scream, Helen Mirren gliding around the house like the women in black, guns floating in the air and bang. End scene. Awful, waste of time, avoid it at all costs. I sat through this rubbish so there's no need for anyone else to subject themselves to the worst movie of 2018 so far. Not recommended.