She inherited $20 million, but that didn't make her heart any less broken. They never had another child, and just 15 years later, Sarah lost her husband, her mother, and her father-in-law to the plague of her time, tuberculosis. It is true that she married Wirt in 1862 and four years later gave birth to a daughter, Annie Pardee Winchester, who died a month later. But she was also an incredible architectural designer, real estate investor, and empathetic small business woman. In reality, Sarah was certainly an eccentric and deeply saddened by tragedies in her life. In fact, history and urban legends have often portrayed Winchester as a mentally disturbed woman who was obsessed with ghosts that she believed were the vengeful souls killed by the guns made by her late husband, William Wirt Winchester's gun company. RELATED: Unpacking the "Hardcore" Haunted Houses & Heartbreak in SurrealEstate Season 2 The film places Sarah in the home at the time of the quake, but in reality that was never verified, nor was there any documentation that she was injured on the day of the event, as subsequent stories have spun. Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren ( The Queen) played Sarah Winchester, and the film focused primarily on one infamous day in the house's history: the 1906 earthquake that destroyed large sections of the property she named Llanada Villa. You certainly can’t shoot in the real house very easily because it’s just so many strange spaces, so we had to build lots of things in order to have control and be able to remove walls and put cameras where we wanted to, and things like that.In 2018, Hollywood finally brought some parts of Winchester's tragic story to screen in the horror mystery, Winchester ( now streaming on Peacock). That’s interesting and challenging for a production designer, but also for us, logistically.
"There are strange angles on walls and things look like they repeat, and there are certain rooms that are slightly higher than other ones and the stairwells go straight to the ceiling, and things like that. "The design challenges are interesting because you are building things that, in a way, isn’t traditional," Peter Spierig said. It’s really that confusing." That's just one of the reasons why the Spierig brothers found it necessary to recreate the house's bizarre rooms in Australia, where most of the production took place. "What makes it interesting is when we shot there," Michael Spierig explained, "every crew member needed a guide, because if you’d walk around a corner you’d get completely lost and not be able to find where we’re shooting again. I’m not saying they don’t exist, I’m not saying people haven’t seen them," Peter Spierig explained in a new interview with IGN. The problem with shooting in the Winchester House isn't the ghosts. Check out our exclusive new poster for Winchester along with several other photos from the Helen Mirren haunted house thriller:
The film comes from the Spierig brothers, whose horror credentials include the alien zombie thriller Undead, the dystopian vampire thriller Daybreakers, and Jigsaw, the eighth film in the blockbuster Saw series. Eric Price, a man sent to investigate whether or not she has gone insane. The Winchester Mystery House is now the subject of the supernatural thriller Winchester, which stars Oscar winner Helen Mirren as Sarah Winchestet and Jason Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) as Dr. Located in San Jose, California, the mansion was built by Sarah Winchester, the widow of William Winchester, who founded the lucrative Winchester Repeating Arms Company, and was under almost constant construction as it gradually became an eccentric architectural curiosity that, the story goes, contains the ghosts of people killed by Winchester rifles. There are those who claim that the Winchester Mystery House is the most haunted house in America, and maybe even the world.