User blog comment:EmpyrealInvective/Empy's Halloween Horr-tacular! (2018)/@comment-26326346-20181015014738

I saw Winchester not long after it came out on blu-ray. In fact, I bought it as a birthday gift and watched it with my friend and her kids. We were all majorly disappointed by it, but none perhaps more so than I who felt like a piece of poop for buying that and not "almost literally anything else" as a birthday present.

That film was a series of missed opportunities and poor writing. Would have loved it if the film had centered on the secret passages or even incorporated more into the plot, instead we just had one secret passage through a closet, lol. But, you know, I could have actually gotten on board with them focusing on the haunted angle of the building, but only if it had been given a focus on horror. Instead we got a poorly written drama movie where the protagonist turns into an action hero by the end. I mean seriously, wtf was that? A bullet that can kill a ghost? Okay.

I guess the film is actually of the horror genre, but it certainly didn't feel like it at any point to me. What a disappointment of a film. That said, I can't wait for the new Halloween film, Halloween (I've always wanted to say that).