Based on the true story of one of the haunted houses in history, Winchester stars everybody’s favourite Dame, Helen Mirren, as the heir to the Winchester rifle fortune. It also so happens to have been helmed by  the Spierig Brothers, who eagle-eyed horror fans might recognise as the masterminds behind the surprisingly excellent Jigsaw – the pair of Aussie-raised luminaries have been on a bit of a winning streak recently, and they show no sign of slowing down any time soon.

Winchester sound just like your thing? Then you’re in luck – we have ten double passes for the film to give away. All you need to do to enter is email [email protected] with your full name, and an answer to this question: what is your favourite haunted house film ever made?

Winchester is in cinemas this coming Thursday February 22. For a trailer and a full synopsis, see below.

Synopsis:

Inspired by true events at the most haunted house in history. On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside of San Francisco sits a house that knows no end. Built by heiress Sarah Winchester (Academy Award winner Helen Mirren) in an incessant twenty-four-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week mania over decades, it stands seven stories tall and contains hundreds of rooms, staircases to nowhere and doors that open into walls. 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 troubled Doctor Eric Price (Jason Clarke) who has been 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…

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