Winchester

It may be the world's most haunted house, but Winchester is not much of a haunted house movie.

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California, 1906: Grieving, opiate-addled doctor Eric Price (Jason Clarke) is sent to assess the mental state of Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren), the widow of gun magnate William Winchester, who claims to be haunted by victims of the famous rifle brand. But Price discovers that the ghostly apparitions might not all be in her head.

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Helen Mirren vs. ghosts in a pallid gun control debate

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This kinda-sorta true story about ghosts, guns and a labyrinthine house never adds up to much, even with Dame Helen on hand

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You’d think the sordid history of the Winchester house would have inspired a more evocative or even entertaining haunted house story but the Spierigs rely far too much on the sort of shock-cut du jour that has become the lazy and boring norm for so many PG-13 “horror” films of the past 15 years.

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Helen Mirren stars in this gothic ghost story as the real-life heiress haunted by her Winchester arms company riches.

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Despite the typically elevating presence of Helen Mirren, this super-silly feature (the fifth from the Australian brothers Peter and Michael Spierig) stubbornly resists being classed up.

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The story of the widow who inherited the Winchester firearms fortune aims for supernatural scares – and misses by a mile

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Not even Helen Mirren's glares can save this screamingly bad poltergeist pile-up

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Helen Mirren plays a spirit seeker who keeps building rooms onto her haunted mansion in a loopy gothic thriller about (wait for it) gun violence.

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Dame Helen Mirren plays host to some angry spirits – and finds herself in the middle of a truly horrible horror-film disaster

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