It’s always a little funny seeing a movie that says “Inspired by true events” when it’s a ghost story, as the fact it deals with paranormal happenings calls into question everything about it almost immediately. WINCHESTER: THE HOUSE THAT GHOSTS BUILT is based on a real location, though a little digging will tell you the movie is stretching the ghost story aspects quite a bit for moviegoers. Either way, it looks like a fun scary movie to take in, and when you’ve got Helen Mirren in the lead that’s always a good thing. She’s joined by Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook, Laura Brent, and Tyler Coppin, and the film is directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig (aka The Spierig Brothers, who helmed DAYBREAKERS). Check out the first trailer below and tell us your thoughts in the comments.
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, 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, or for the brilliant Doctor Eric Price 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…