One of the most popular tourist attractions in the San Jose area has nothing at all to do with Silicon Valley or the tech industry. Instead, it’s the Winchester Mystery House, a sprawling mansion built in the late 1800s by Sarah Winchester, the widow of the man who invented the Winchester Rifle.
The house was also the location for the recent movie Winchester, which involves Sarah (played by Oscar-winner Helen Mirren) believing that the house is haunted by those killed by her husband’s revolutionary firearm.
Below is an exclusive behind-the-scenes clip in which co-directors Peter and Michael Spierig, Mirren, and co-star Sarah Snook discuss how the filmed on-location at the House as well as the intricate recreation build in Melbourne studios.
The movie is being released on Digital today, and on Blu-ray and DVD on May 1.
If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can purchase tickets to tour the mansion on the Winchester House website. And if you time your trip just right, you can even take a flashlight tour of the house on Friday the 13th.
Rob Huddleston
Rob, GeekDad's Gaming Editor, is a technical writer for Google (provided by HCL). He is alo college professor teaching design, programming and 3D printing, watches a ridiculous number of movies, plays as many board games as he can, and loves history, from the medieval period to the technological age. He's also the Umpire-in-Chief for his local Little League, and is a Little League Certified Tournament Umpire. His kids are a 20 year old college junior and a 16 year old high school senior. (Although there's a good chance that they're older now and this just hasn't been updated.)
