No Place Like THIS Home
13. Feb, 2018 
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Winchester
Rifling &Â Stifling
Official Site | Trailers & Mo
PG-13 | 99 min
A long time ago, I was a giant fan of the A&E show – America’s Castles. One particular episode about ‘California Dreamers’ introduced me to a house that I never ever wanted to call home, but literally haunted me by just knowing about it. It was the Winchester Mystery House of San Jose, built, and continued to be endlessly built on and on and on and on by rifle heiress Sarah Winchester, until the day she died. This is no ordinary house. It has staircases that lead nowhere, and a door that opens to a 2 story drop, and oodles of twists and turns that defy architecture sanity!! And the very first time I ever visited San Francisco I forced my friend to drive me to this house so we could tour it. AND IT WAS EVEN MORE AMAZING IN PERSON THAN WHAT I COULD EVER IMAGINE (even if the tour guide we had was more cheerleader than Vincent Price)!!! The true mystery is how this house isn’t as famous and as visited as Graceland???!!!??!!!
So when they made Winchester – a movie about Sarah and the house, I had to see it – no matter HOW rotten it was rated. Well, it was totally NOT rotten, but for a movie about a house that is possibly haunted, they were somehow unable to remotely make a scary movie out of it. They added some BS stories to make it some sort of an actual story, and even with solid performances from both Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke the result was somewhere between ‘they could have done something better‘ and ‘well, how could they have made a better movie than this when there’s really not much to work from besides the house being big and crazy and creepy?‘ And so, the movie is what it is, and what it is is OK, and it at least gets the word out there that this house exists, and that matters cause there’s no place LIKE this home
Verdictgo: high end(?)Â Sum Merit But No Stinkin Badgers
Winchester ‘haunts’ a theater near jews and white nationalists
and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…
