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The House with a Clock in Its Walls

The House with a Clock in Its Walls

A young orphan named Lewis Barnavelt discovers a world of hidden passageways in his uncle's old house.

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Animatronic Jack Black Baby was the most terrifying thing I saw last year

Animatronic Jack Black Baby was the most terrifying thing I saw last year

Movies — they’ve done it again!
House With a Clock in Its Walls ticks up nicely for Steven Spielberg

House With a Clock in Its Walls ticks up nicely for Steven Spielberg

A cast including Jack Black and Cate Blanchett lifted the family drama to timely top position while Paul Feig’s A Simple Favour took runner-up slot
Steven Spielberg told Eli Roth to scare the shit out of kids with The House With A Clock In Its Walls

Steven Spielberg told Eli Roth to scare the shit out of kids with The House With A Clock In Its Walls

We’re less than a month away from the release of The House With A Clock In Its Walls, over-the-top horror auteur Eli Roth’s first foray into the world of PG-rated scares. It’s a pretty serious departure from (or, as he’d term it, evolution of) Roth’s signature style, an attempt to translate his love of horror into something that parents won’t be taken to jail for showing to their kids (and also, presumably, an attempt to frighten his audiences without dipping back into his old “What if there were 11 murderers in a really dirty room?” school of scares).
Cate Blanchett Joins Jack Black in Amblin’s ‘House With a Clock in Its Walls’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Cate Blanchett Joins Jack Black in Amblin’s ‘House With a Clock in Its Walls’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Cate Blanchett is in early talks to co-star with Jack Black in Amblin Entertainment and Mythology Entertainment’s “The House With a Clock in Its Walls,” an adaptation of the 1973 …