The conniving board promises Price a handsome payday if he declares the eccentric widow mentally unfit. Locked in a power struggle with Winchester board members to retain her stake in the company, Sarah ( Mirren) agrees to submit to an assessment from dissolute, laudanum-addicted, grief-stricken San Francisco psychiatrist Eric Price ( Jason Clarke).
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Some historians have suggested more mundane explanations for her peculiar behavior, but naturally this lurid interpretation is the one with the most purchase in popular culture, inspiring the plots of numerous novels, plays, comic books and TV thrillers before this big-screen iteration. The house was an epic work-in-progress passion project for widowed heiress Sarah Lockwood Winchester, who inherited a vast fortune from her husband, William, whose family founded the fabled Winchester rifle company.Īccording to folklore, the superstitious Sarah designed and supervised almost 40 years of round-the-clock construction work on the Mystery House, believing its twisty corridors to be haunted by the spirits of people killed by Winchester rifles. Now a state monument and tourist magnet, this sprawling superstructure contains roughly 160 rooms, staircases that lead nowhere, doors that open on to walls, as well as other gloriously bizarre features.
Most of the action takes place in the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California.
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