Clevercell Very disappointing...

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

DigitalRevenantX7 A family moves into the legendary Winchester House as caretakers for the season. But as soon as they arrive, the formidable house's army of spirits – victims of Winchester weapons that cursed the Winchester family – decide to mount an assault on them. At the same time, they are drawn to investigate the disappearance of a Winchester family member – a young girl who appears to them periodically.The Haunting of Winchester House is one of the Asylum's catalogue of mockbusters – cheap generic copies of big budget Hollywood films, made purely to trick people into renting them by including deceptive titles that sound very similar to the target film they are ripping off.This particular example is one of the Asylum's better films, although that is not saying too much since virtually all of the Asylum's works are too cheap to really compare to their target films. In this case, the Asylum conducts a haunted house ghost story. Mark Atkins, one of the company's best directors, does a pretty reasonable job in making a suspenseful ghost story, although this is about three or four light years away from the likes of such esteemed ghost stories such as THE LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE & the original THE HAUNTING (in my opinion the finest of all ghost stories).That said, the film might be too average to compete with the big boys but it does have some creepy atmosphere that goes a fair way to papering over some of the stupidly low budget that the Asylum operates on. The only problem I had was with the twist ending where the family discover that they themselves are already dead – something tacked on to follow the now-cliché twist ending pioneered by The Sixth Sense. There was also a stupid scene where Michael Holmes dismisses a character's deaf slate (a small chalkboard that the hearing impaired would have carried around in ye olde days for people to communicate with them) as a "nineteenth century smartphone". I found that to be offensive to the hearing impaired of the era, despite it actually being somewhat accurate in a certain context.

FemalefanLotR This is one of those B films that can only be enjoyed if you like campy low budget films like this one. I personally hates it and thought that this was bad even for studio that made the atrocious Titanic II and other low budget movies. The acting was terrible from all of the cast especially from the actress that played the daughter. How old was the daughter supposed to be? She sounded like she was 6 or 7 but looked like she was 15-16. The writing was bad and the people who wrote it should never be allowed to write another movie again. The make up and FX were terrible, even for a low budget flick. The twist at the end was horrible and I know they said it would be like the ending of The Sixth Sense and The Others. What with characters not knowing they were dead, but those had better twist endings. All in all I'd skip this one and see something better

TheLittleSongbird The Asylum have made a lot of real clunkers, and Haunting of Winchester House adds to that long list. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. And the music and sound effects are really overdone and just overbear everything. All in all, really as awful as I'd heard and a movie I wish to forget in the long run. 1/10 Bethany Cox

scriptspring-594-680587 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!