Winchester

She is Not Alone.

On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside of San Francisco sits the most haunted house in the world. It was built by Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester fortune, and was constructed in a non-stop twenty-four hour a day, seven day a week frenzy 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 was not building for herself, for her niece or for the brilliant Doctor Eric Price whom she has summoned to the house. She was building a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts, and the most terrifying among them had a score to settle with the Winchesters.

99 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Violence, Horror).
Biographical, Detective/Mystery, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, On the art circuit

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

I’m starting to think she’s too old for me ...

Credits

Cast	Helen Mirren, Sarah Snook, Finn Scicluna O'Prey, Jason Clarke, Emm Wiseman
Director	Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Screenplay	Tom Vaughan, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig
Music	Peter Spierig
Cinematography	Ben Nott
Editing	Matt Villa
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2018
Produced by	Blacklab Entertainment, Imagination Design Works

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Horror
Language	None
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Strong, fairly frequent, minimal blood-letting, in horror context.
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments	Contains scenes of horror.
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USA MPAA rating

PG-13: Parents Strongly Cautioned	Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images, drug content, some sexual material and thematic elements
Runtime	99
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 13 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
24.com Alex Isaacs I would say go watch this movie if you can handle scary moments in dark rooms with strangers.	10
ScreenIt Jim Judy Perhaps with a different storytelling approach, this might have worked better. As it stands, this Winchester ends up as something of a misfire.	7
Metacritic.com 18 critics	6
Rottentomatoes critics 99 critics	8
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer 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.	3
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	8
CommonSenseMedia Jeffrey M. Anderson Gun violence, jump scares in disappointing ghost story.	5
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 25 users	10
Rottentomatoes users 2123 users	9
IMDB 5118 Netizens	11
The Movie DB Community	12
Average .. 40%	8