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form y separately published work icon Winchester single work   film/TV   horror  
Alternative title: Winchester : The House That Ghosts Built
Note: American script-writer Tom Vaughan is credited with the original script, and the Spierig brothers with re-writes.
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Winchester
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'Inspired by true events. On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside of San Francisco sits the most haunted house in the world. Built by Sarah Winchester (Academy Award winner Helen Mirren), heiress to the Winchester fortune, it is a house that knows no end. Constructed in an incessant twenty-four-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week mania for decades, it stands seven stories tall and contains hundreds of rooms.

'To the outsider it looks like a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman’s madness. But Sarah is not building for herself, for her niece (Sarah Snook), or for the brilliant Doctor Eric Price (Jason Clarke), whom she has summoned to the house. She is building a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts, and the most terrifying among them have a score to settle with the Winchesters…'

Source: Production summary.

Notes

  • In production.

Works about this Work

The Brothers Gonna Work It Out Anthony O'Connor , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 24 October 2017;
The Brothers Gonna Work It Out Anthony O'Connor , 2017 single work column
— Appears in: FilmInk , 24 October 2017;
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