Haunting of Winchester House

Despite a low budget and mediocre acting with blue screen effects that make you laugh, this movie is actually quite good. Not many movies these days are actually scary. In an age where sawing someone's head in two makes people yawn, it seems time to bring back some old fashioned scares.

Based on the legendary Winchester house this movie provided those old school thrills with very little gory violence. The threat is consistent and sustained allowing the viewer to feel threatened where other horror movies would back off. Despite all the negative aspects to the film it is enjoyable to watch and the fact it is so cheap actually helps. Hollywood often gloss over horror making it unscary, this goes the whole way to provide good entertainment.

a worthwhile watch

Apart from getting the history of The Winchester House completely wrong, there is no substance in the story, the characters are not well developed, so you don't really care what happens to them, and the trite horror movie set-ups are the very definition of campy. It isn't scary and you can't even laugh at it as a suitable schlock flick. A complete waste of an hour and a half.

For those of us who are familiar with the actual Winchester House in San Jose, CA, the house portrayed is not the actual house, nor is it in its actual location. How hard would it have been for the makers of this film to have done even a little bit of research to get the content in the ballpark?

I love the genre, so this comes from someone who can appreciate a good horror movie. Unfortunately, this isn't one!

This movie was downright brutal to watch. I have a very tolerant ability to watch B horror films; however, this one is particularly bad. The acting is worse than brutal, the story is beyond bad with zero back story provided upfront and early on and the direction is...wait a second there was even a director here- if so I doubt he would want his name on this stinker.

I really tried to watch this one, but I had to turn it off about halfway through due to total boredom and due to how completely bad this one is. Don't waste your time on this one- not even to rent.

Because there is no history provided and no story outlined very well at the beginning of this movie, it basically just starts into a freaky horror show of ghosts and ghouls whom you have no idea who or whats going on. I mean- unless you know about the infamous Winchestor mansion and its rumoured history you will really be scratching your head wondering wtf is happening here. To be honest I know the history and I still was asking myself wtf is happening here.

Avoid!

I will stat with plot A family moves in to look after the Winchester mansion for a few months, and soon find themselves terrorised by vengeful spirits. With the help of a paranormal investigator they'll unravel the mystery of the house

The mum and day are driving to the new home with their daughter in the back seat.

There have near accident as they almost get hit by a car but soon get to house and unpacked and strange things start happen, they find out that house is haunted.

The acting in this movie was so HORRIBLE (Is so bad that it's make the word horrible look good)

And How old is the daughter?, she look like 15 year old girl but she acts like spoilt whiny five years old.

There is only one good thing I can say about this movie was the twist was good but it already been done few times now.

2/10

I'm in film school reviewing movies over and over. I have to say, it's not the fault of the actors. The storyline on what the proper reaction would be to certain incidents is the fault of the script writer and the director. I wasn't bored in the movie. I saw the whole thing. All movies have defects- just some have less than others! Basically, the end shouldn't have ended like that. The moral of the story from this movie: Speak-up, don't let people exist with a lie! Tell them what really happened.