The Ending Of Winchester Explained

Directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, Winchester is kind of based on the real-life Winchester
mansion, supposedly the most haunted house in America.
The movie centers on Dr. Eric Price, a morphine addict with some relationship hangups who's
called out assess the mental health of Sarah Winchester, heir to the Winchester Repeating
Arms Company fortune.
See, Old Lady Winchester has been acting weird and building a big, creepy house.
"It's a gargantuan seven storied structure without any apparent rhyme or reason."
In addition to some interesting ideas about ghosts, there are enough left turns — and
dead-end stairways, and hidden rooms, and…you get the idea — to leave some viewers scratching
their heads by the time the credits roll.
Here's an explanation of what it all meant.
Spoilers ahead.
Unexpected friend
Throughout the movie, Dr. Price has an unexplained fixation on the widow Winchester's garden
room.
At one point, he sees a shadow pass through the locked greenhouse and tries frantically
to see through the window.
Since he's pretty nonchalant about the rest of the ghosts, his actions there seem a little
weird.
As the movie explains, each room is built to draw a ghost into the house.
The doors are then nailed shut with 13 nails, trapping the ghost inside the room.
"You see once their rooms are completed, their presence grows stronger."
Although the movie never completely explains it, Price's obsession with the garden room
stems from the fact that it's an exact copy of the place where his wife ended her own
life.
Which brings us to…
Rifle reenactment (part one)
When Price finally gets into the garden room, he comes face to face with his wife, who's
been deceased for several years.
What happens next seems like a basic horror movie fight with a ghost, but it's actually
a reenactment of the way they both perished.
His wife tries to end it all by shooting herself with a Winchester rifle.
When Price reaches in to pull the gun away, she accidentally shoots him in the chest,
then turns it on herself.
That's why Price falls back, bleeding, then later has no blood on his jacket—it was
just a supernatural reenactment of what had already happened.
In the epilogue, we see the garden room being dismantled, because confronting that moment
brought peace to Pierce's wife and let her move on...or whatever ghosts do when they're
done haunting things.
"Start pulling your weight guys or you're going back to the cemetery."
"Yeah, well, you can pull this, Frank."
Rifle reenactment (part two)
Obviously, Dr. Price is dealing with a lot of demons throughout the film.
Some come from a bottle, others from the whole wife thing.
The altercation with his former wife helps him see what's wrong with his life, but Price
isn't quite ready to move on until he faces that moment and comes out on top, so to speak.
When Price runs into his wife's ghost, he gets shot the same way he was shot in real
life.
But later, while battling the big bad ghost of Ben Block, the same series of events plays
out.
Possessed by Block, Winchester is holding a rifle to her chin.
Price leaps in to pull it away, and the gun goes off…and misses Price.
The narrow escape symbolizes Price finally moving on from the memory of his wife and,
presumably, the end of the self-destructive path he went down after that loss.
Helping hands
After Price regains consciousness in the garden room, he's surrounded by a gaggle of ghouls.
They certainly look crazy and evil, but then they start helping him get back through the
house.
But why do they care?
Well, after Ben Block's ghost releases them all from their rooms, they come to Price because
he's the only one who can defeat Ben once and for all, thereby letting them go back
to their soul-searching.
As Sarah Winchester explains, "This spirit has disrupted the balance of this house."
Basically, Ben's ghost is causing a ruckus, and it's honking off the rest of the guests.
Supernatural ballistics
In the end, Price defeats Block's ghost by shooting him with the bullet he's been carrying
around in his pocket — the same one that he was shot with back in the day.
So…how the heck does a real bullet stop a ghost?
Everyone knows you can only get rid of a ghost through the power of love.
"I love you, I've always loved you."
Well, once again, this goes back to wise old Mrs. Winchester, who said earlier in the movie
that relics of passing hold special power over ghosts.
Since that bullet literally ended Price's life, and then he kept it around as a keepsake,
it's filled up with just the right kind of supernatural power to tear a hole through
an ectoplasmic interloper.
In a universe where ghosts exist, it's as good an explanation as any.
Loose nails
By the time the credits roll, everybody's happy.
The other woman who was occasionally on the screen is happy, and her forgettable son has
been un-possessed.
Dr. Price gives Sarah a clean bill of sanity, and she's ready to go back to her favorite
hobby: being rich and building prisons for ghosts.
It's a glorious moment.
And then…cliffhanger!
A close-up shows a bunch of nails sliding out of a door barrier, signaling that another
ghost is free.
Maybe your ghost-proofing system isn't so foolproof after all, Sarah.
What this part of the ending means is — you guessed it — there's room for a sequel if
this one makes enough money.
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