I’ve had the Winchester House on my bucket list for a while now. No, not because I’m a Supernatural fan (though I am – PIE), but because the history of this house sounds fascinating. As a DC gal born and raised, I think of the Winchester House as sort of an O Street Mansion writ large. Really, really large. So when the movie Winchester started production, I couldn’t wait to see what’d they’d do with the myth. First the trailer, and now the poster. Pretty sweet, right? Synopsis!
Inspired by true events. On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside of San Francisco sits the most haunted house in the world. Built by Sarah Winchester, (Academy Award®-winner Helen Mirren) heiress to the Winchester fortune, it is a house that knows no end. Constructed in an incessant twenty-four hour a day, seven day a week mania for decades, it stands seven stories tall and contains hundreds of rooms. To the outsider it looks like a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman’s madness. But Sarah is not building for herself, for her niece (Sarah Snook) or for the troubled Doctor Eric Price (Jason Clarke) whom she has summoned to the house. She is building a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts, and the most terrifying among them have a score to settle with the Winchesters…
Helen. Freakin’. Mirren. Nuff said. Winchester hits theaters February 2nd.