All in all, really as awful as I'd heard and a movie I wish to forget in the long run. And the music and sound effects are really overdone and just overbear everything.
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It looks very amateurish, the special effects look fake and are utilised far too obviously, the lighting gives the movie a very murky look and the camera shots are so fast and full of face shots and close-ups that it makes the action incoherent. Even though it is a haunted house movie, the origin of how it came to be so here was just not there, so everything just felt really underdeveloped, seeing as the movie is nearly an hour and a half there is no excuse for that. The story also doesn't work, the telling of it is far too fragmented, random and predictable and it would have been scarier if the pacing hadn't felt like I was riding on the back of a snail, and that the scares didn't feel like a mish-mash of pre-existing horror/haunted house movies with none of the suspense, tension or thrills. That's hardly a surprise though, because the dialogue is so inane and awkward that you want to vomit even thinking about it, and the characters are basically cookie-cutter cardboard cut-outs with no personality or development. Kimberly Ables Jindra is the least bad, she has moments where she is touchingly sincere but it is nothing special or memorable and she like everybody else fails to rise above her material. The worst asset is I agree the acting, the worst being from Lira Kellerman and Patty Roberts who act in a very forced and artificial way throughout. I don't think it is quite down there as one of the absolute worst, but that does not stop it from being a movie with almost no redeeming features. The Asylum have made a lot of real clunkers, and Haunting of Winchester House adds to that long list. Overall, if you're bored and looking for a good horror movie to pass the time (like I was), you might be better off choosing to watch something else! Grade F I have to single out the actress who played "Susan Grenier." I think she is the worse actor in the film who, at times, tries too hard to be realistic (i.e., forcing out tears when she cries). I had to cover my eyes a few times just because the acting was so terrible. It looked as if the actors were ill-prepared for their roles and made very little effort in portraying their characters. Lastly, the acting is absolutely horrible - lack of substance, emotion, depth and drama. Instead, the lack thereof makes the film dull and stands out as just another low-budget, ghost-on-the-loose horror flick. Detailing and emphasizing the history and mystery of the house will make the film more unique and original. Also, make the effort of having the house located in a city like in real life, rather than sequestered in the woods.
If you're going to have the Winchester Mystery House portrayed in a film, at least make the characters explore the many different and eerie aspects of the house like the staircase that leads up to the ceiling, door to nowhere, the séance room, Winchester's bedroom, the garden, the 7-11 staircase, emphasis of the number 13, etc. There was no effort in elaborating the history behind Sarah Winchester nor the many different rooms, secret chambers, doors and hallways in the house. Sarah Winchester, the heiress who kept construction on the house going non-stop for 38 years to appease the spirits of those killed by the Winchester firearms, was portrayed as just a lost soul looking for her long lost daughter (why she could not find her daughter in her own darn house is beyond me). This film was Winchester in name only, elaborating very little on the real-life Winchester Mystery House. However, this film fails to deliver that notion and instead is a campy, low-budget, and unoriginal movie. With all the horror movies made in the USA involving a haunted house, you would think one that features one of the most famous haunted places in the world (Winchester Mystery House in San Nose, CA) would feature a unique and compelling story.
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