Review – Winchester

The true part of this story is familiar enough: Sarah Winchester, widow of the firearms manufacturer William Wirt Winchester, believed she was being haunted by the ghosts of people slain with her husband’s rifles. So she had a mansion built (and built and built) with no end of eccentric details in order to placate and/or befuddle the restless dead. Simply positing that her ghosts were real should have been enough to sustain a good horror movie, especially with Helen Mirren in the title role and permission obtained to do at least some of the filming in the real location. Alas, the plot never finds a way to get off the ground. Mildly amusing