Winchester (2018)
4/10
Winchester: What I expected, which isn't good
21 April 2019
I'll be honest I never had any interest in Winchester, the trailer bored me.

I watched it simply because it was on and everything I assumed about it turned into reality.

Helen Mirren stars in this highly cliched generic horror movie that alike the trailer quite frankly bored me. It's not without its merits, in fact I quite like the premise but it comes across flat and even Mirren failed to bring her A game.

Telling the story of a doctor recruited to decide the mental state of an old lady living in a bizarre house who believes that victims of the gun her family invented are haunting her.

Something about this reminded me oddly of 13 Ghosts (2001), except that was a passable affair whereas this relies too much on the standard tropes and quite frankly is a tad pretentious.

I expected not to like it and I was correct, predictable tripe.

The Good:

Interesting idea

The Bad:

Failed execution

Mirren was quite poor here

Predictable

Generic stuff
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