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Madame Revenant swooped up the trailer for the Spierig Brothers' latest! Let's see if she loved it like me!
The Winchester house. A towering mansion veiled in mystery much like its eccentric owner, Sarah Winchester, the wealthy heiress to the Winchester fortune. What would bring a lonely widow to continually build onto the house which didn’t end until her death? What truly was her sense of urgency, her raison d’etre? For some, lore foretells of Sarah believing she was cursed due to her Winchester rifle success. Her punishment was to be tormented by many spirits who would tell her what new addition would need building within the house. It is said that she believed that the spirits would let her live as long as she complied. Much like Clive Barker’s Books of blood, there are many spirits who want to deal their due share of justice.
WINCHESTER:THE HOUSE THAT GHOSTS BUILT is a film out to share this very story. The film is written and directed by Spierig brothers who brought you Undead (2003) and Daybreakers (2009). Helen Mirren plays Sarah Winchester, a tortured soul driven to madness, tasked with appeasing vengeful ghosts with a flare for home renovation. The other Winchester shareholders question her sanity and scheme to remove her from her primary shareholder status. Little do they know that ghosts don’t take kindly to being “shut out”. If Sarah is unhappy, they are unhappy right? I can only assume that the people to assess her sanity will enter the house and hell will be released upon them. The film set to release February 7, 2018.
Sadly, much of Sarah’s tale is full of steam and hot air. Not much of it is true save for the house and the many renovations within. But the Winchester house did not survive on fact but from fiction and a hope for life after death. Let’s be honest: a ghost story is so much more interesting than reality any day.
Check out the trailer and let me know what you think!
Well, stay cool my ghoulish fiends,
Madame Revenant
