Given the cast assembled and the events it's based on, I'm sure you'll forgive me for having at least some expectations for Winchester. Whatever those expectations were though, I can tell you right now, they weren't met. Winchester was massively disappointing, as by-the-numbers as you can get, and if it wasn't for a couple of good performances and the occasional decent effect, it would have literally nothing to offer.

Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.

A movie as empty as a haunted house.

I fully understand the fascination with Winchester Mystery House, an old mansion that was born from Sarah Winchester's will and ideas: owner of a fortune linked to the firearm's industry, she thought she was being haunted by the ghosts of people killed by these weapons and was advised by a medium to live in a mansion that was always being remodeled, with rooms and divisions permanently being added or demolished in an apparently random way. Sarah Winchester truly believed that she would be killed if she stopped or finished the building, so the house wa... read the rest.