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Silly film
- Winchester review by AB
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Sorry not for me a awful film .... i just didn't find it believable i also got bored with it . Shame because it was based on a interesting true story which they should of kept to .. Not me i'm afraid . Hope Helen Mirren finds a better film next time .. She was utterly unconvincing !
Engaging
- Winchester review by KF
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Not the most originally themed story line but given some piquancy by being vaguely related to a true story. Helen Mirren once again showing what a versatile actor she is. Don't expect too much and you'll enjoy it!.
S-so horror supposedly based on a 'true story' (yeah right...)
- Winchester review by PV
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This is not a low budget horror movie - it would have cost millions. Yet it's just an old haunted house story, with VERY predictable jumps and scares - and twists I would see coming a mile off.
A supposedly moral plot sort of makes sense esp with the subplot - but it all feels as fake and fantasy fiction as Harry Potter.
Predictable slave appearances; and some hokum re 13 nails... and a predictable non-ending leading the way to a sequel which I am sure will never be made.
Passes the time.
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Winchester ,True story ?
- Winchester review by porky
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Vaguely based on the True story of the Winchester Family and the Continual Building of an eccentric House .
Not a Bad Ghost Story Movie, some scary -ish moments .My only real peeve was i felt Everyone had been Badly Miscast in this Movie.
Helen Mirren is the lynch pin and the Best in the movie but even she feels Wrong for the part with a very fake American Accent. maybe Cathy Bates would have been a wiser choice ?
Anyway, apart from the uncomfortable Casting it isnt a Bad Scary Movie. Fairly good quality effects ,almost like an INSIDIOUS movie but based in Victorian times. well worth a few watches .
Spoilers follow ...
- Winchester review by NP
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I am a very big fan of low budget horror films. The limitations foisted on a tiny budgeted project often give it an intimacy and requirement to focus on characters vastly outweighs any constraints caused by lack of spectacle. And yet it is undeniably pleasurable once in a while to enter into a full-blown, richly visual, production that few million quid can bring, as opposed to a few thousand.
Jason Clarke as Dr Henry Price, Helen Mirren as Sarah Winchester, Sarah Snook (who was so good as the title character in 2014’s ‘Jessabelle’) as Marion Marriot and Finn Scicluna-O'Prey as Henry Marriot. Terrific performances from the these main players, and Henry is a very convincing ‘possessed child’, even though we don’t get to know the character beforehand and therefore cannot truly embrace the transition.
Against that, we get standard scowling zombie-types, disappointing CGI cartoons and an early over-reliance on jump/shock moments in place of the atmospheric horror ‘Winchester’ seemed to promise. Equally, the dénouement is lacklustre. A kind of horror story standardised by a Disney-filter. The casting is, I think, what saves this – and there are some nice, sweeping directorial touches from The Spierig Brothers that time, money and a measure of innovation can bring.
I’m not using this review as an excuse to extoll the virtues of low-budget cinema. I enter into these horror films with an open mind and a real willingness to enjoy them. And while this is good, it is far from great. It smacks of ‘chills for the masses’, with no real urge to repulse, shock or unduly frighten the widest possible demographic.
Best film i have seen in a long time
- Winchester review by GBK
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This film has got to be one of the best i have seen in a long time, it has a good storyline and does have a few good parts that will make you jump especially with the full surround set up, Its one of those films that once you start to watch you simply cannot leave until the end and i shall certainly be going back to watch again, Too many films these days concentrate on gore and over the top visual sickening effects so it was nice to go back to what i call a traditional horror / suspence thriller and the cast were brilliant especially Helen Mirren who i thought was simply perfect for the part
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