Written by James M. Tate / 2/05/2018 / No comments / 2018 , biopic , helen mirren , horror , jason clarke , new , suspense
HELEN MIRRIN & JASON CLARKE STARRING IN 'WINCHESTER'
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The Winchester Mansion rendering YEAR RELEASED: 2018 |
In this case, Sarah Winchester, an old clad-in-dark-veiled lady who's the heir of the Winchester Repeating Rifle fortune, has construction workers building and rebuilding her mansion to allow ghosts that... oh you know... have unsettled business, a device that, at this point, is tremendously cliché. Although as a standard-spooky horror flick it's not entirely awful, but it goes far overboard on the sudden face appearing at the screen jolt that's very commonplace nowadays...
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Score: **1/2 |
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This Movie is Haunted |
The eventual twist belongs solely to him since the plot about ghosts seeking revenge on the guns that killed them is right up front: Almost as if the current gun-control advocates pieced together their very own SHINING to back the omnipresent theory that guns are always to blame, not people (who are vulnerable humans, not deadly machines!).
It would have been a much longer picture had the souls sought vengeance on those who actually used the particular weapon(s). And since the giant manor, with mazy levels shrouded in a sort of Gothic, old school haunted house aesthetic, lacks the kind of eerie and horrifying malevolence it promises from the onset, then WINCHESTER would have fared better being less claustrophobic. If, as the saying goes, the setting is "a character in itself," The Mansion's performance is as ultimately hollow and underwhelming as Madame/Dame Winchester.
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