‘Winchester’ Trailer: Helen Mirren Builds The Ultimate Haunted House

If you have even a passing knowledge of guns, you know the name Winchester, as it’s one of the most popular weapons makers ever. The upcoming “Winchester” shines a light on another, more sinister part of their legacy.

Directed by The Spierig Brothers (“Jigsaw,” “Predestination“), and starring Helen Mirren, Jason Clarke, Sarah Snook, Angus Sampson, and Finn Scicluna-O’Prey, the film tells the (somewhat exaggerated) true story of Sarah Winchester, who built an epic, unending mansion — featuring dead-ends and staircases to nowhere — one that she believes has become haunted by spectres who have a score to settle with the family who built their fortune on blood. Here’s the official synopsis:

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 troubled 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…

“Winchester” opens on February 2nd.