CBS Films have given us our very first look at Academy Award-winner Helen Mirren in the upcoming supernatural thriller Winchester. Inspired by true events, Winchester is the story of the impossibly wealthy recluse Sarah Winchester, who obsessively kept her 160+ room home under construction twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, for thirty-eight years straight.
Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook, and Angus Sampson also star in the forthcoming feature, whic his brought to the screen by Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig, who write and direct.
Here’s the first look, followed by the film’s synopsis.
Inspired by true events, Winchester follows the story of firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren), who was convinced that she was haunted by the souls killed at the hands of the Winchester Repeating Rifle. After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, she threw herself into the 24-hours a day, seven days a week construction of an enormous mansion designed to keep the evil spirits at bay. But when skeptical San Francisco psychiatrist Eric Price (Jason Clarke) is dispatched to the estate to evaluate her state of mind, he discovers that her obsession may not be so insane after all. The film will take audiences inside the labyrinth-like house that is believed to be one of the most haunted places in the world.
Winchester will arrive in cinemas in Spring 2018.
