Review by Aaron Haughton

The Spierig brothers (Predestination, Daybreakers) follow up last year's Jigsaw with something even worse, Winchester: The House that Ghosts Built (or Winchester: The Film that Jump Scares Built, as I like to refer to it). The film is the living embodiment of contemporary clichéd horror and has very little working in its favor. Essentially, it's an exploitation of a pretty fascinating true story that is shaped into yet another "spooky" haunted house film; however, there is a silver lining here as well.

On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside of San Francisco sits the most haunted house in the world. Built by Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren), heiress to the Winchester fortune, it's 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, her niece (Sarah Snook) or the troubled Doctor Eric Price (Jason Clarke) 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...