Haunting of Winchester House

I've loved this movie since I was young. Nothing more to say besides if you love horror I recommend

This is not going to be like the conjuring or like the Amityville horror but for a low budget horror movie, it's actually pretty good! The twist at the end was awesome!

The movie was not what very thrilling no wow factor

This review is specific to the ECHO BRIDGE flipdisc that offers as a bonus their Vol. 5 of the late-1990's supernatural anthology half-hour, GHOST STORIES, a cable show hosted by unseen Rip Torn. (If the DVD cover you're looking at doesn't have a red BONUS banner near the bottom, it doesn't contain these eight shows.).THE HAUNTING OF WINCHESTER HOUSE is yet another take on the "I see dead people" plot device popularized by Herk Harvey's classic frighter, CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962). "Winchester" fails miserably for technical reasons more than anything else. Nearly the entire 82 minutes is dark, with most scenes filmed through a heavy blue filter. The audio track, which ideally supports a story and heightens viewer emotions, doesn't fit on-screen action and is annoyingly overloud. As for pacing, I couldn't abide endless "creeping around the scary house" sequences and fast-scanned through them, which shortened the experience to less than an hour without obfuscating the plot. Acting was OK. (two stars)Not recommended..GHOST STORIESEach videotaped episode runs barely 20 minutes. Forty-four chapters of this program aired between 9/28/97 and 6/8/98. (four stars)(synopses from tvdótcom)HEARTSICK (#25 - 2/9/98) - Juliette Dunn, Jonathan McQuade, Judith Stambler, Baz Snider, Emilie Jo Tisdale"A woman heart-transplant recipient is strangely attracted to a man travelling on the same train."FROM THE ASHES (#30 - 3/2/98) - Louis Lu, Christina Chang, John Brantley Cole Jr."A death squad haunts the Asian survivor of a death camp."WINNER TAKES ALL (#37 - 5/11/98) - Tony Maestrone, Oliver Vaquer, Kimberly Kay, Richard Kinter"The current CEO invites three executives to a poker game in which the winner will take all--become the new CEO--and the losers will lose all."THE INHERITANCE (#34 - 5/4/98) - Cynthia Henderson, Ty Upshaw, John Griffin, Carole Shoemaket, Jay T. Rockwell"A woman inherits a house with a bloody history."DENIAL (#42 - 6/1/98) - Christopher Mattox, Chris Lindsay-Abaire, Charles Tuthill"Three years after his wife was murdered, a man sees her in visions while holding her scarf, the murder weapon. He gradually learns the identity of the culprit."ERASED (#40 - 5/25/98) - M.J. Karmi, Mark Fish, Larry Small"Nicole Osborne, editor of Dazzle magazine, ignores her husband and takes a lover. Then she sees a woman in her house whom her husband denies seeing. She feels she is being 'erased',"PARTING SHOT (#43 - 6/1/98) - Maya Israel, Greg O'Donovan, Nicholas Rohlfing, John Rogers, Scott Travis"A woman who takes a photo of a dead celebrity to sell to a magazine is frightened by the devil that gave her the address."CONSUMERS (#29 - 2/23/98) - Christian Borle, Erin O'Neill, Harvey Shane, Joel Harberli, Greg Provance"A supermarket clerk working the night shift discovers there is more going on than he expected."

What can I say about this unbelievable movie? If you only see one movie this year... butter that popcorn... climb into the armpit of the macabre. You have been warned.

Honestly, it was good to play in the background while I worked on homework just for the noise. Luckily, the acting and the story was terrible enough that I didn't care to be distracted from reading the academic journal articles I am being forced to read. So obviously, it did the job perfectly. Now for specifics.The story was awful. It was about as much about the Winchester house as Sharknado would be about the weather (and honestly, I would have instead watched Sharknado). It was almost like the creator just heard the name of the house and the idea behind it, but didn't bother to do substantial research. Hell, a peek on Wikipedia would have helped.The acting was barely mediocre. Every line I heard felt like it was being read, particularly by the daughter. The script was also a significant hindrance to the actors. Maybe the acting could have been better if the script had been worth a damn. My biggest gripe about the acting/script was that the character of the daughter seemed like it had been written for a much younger actress. I feel like the writing was suited for maybe an 8 or 9-year-old instead of what appears to be someone who is around 12 or 13.Also, a small gripe, but something that bothered me was the costuming of the ghosts that were supposed to be older. Their clothes appeared to be too modern and not at all period-appropriate. That just ruined the immersion factor for me.Another issue was the very beginning. Who the HECK is that woman and why is she necessary for the plot? She is never once mentioned again.TLDR: Awful movie, weak script, barely-there acting. Just a dumpster fire of a film.

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