The House With a Clock in Its Walls

This house knows what makes you tick.


The House With a Clock in Its Walls
A ten year old boy goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house, with a mysterious clock in the wall. Things get way more interesting when he accidentally awakens the dead, and jolts the sleepy town to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches. This film is releasing in 2D, IMAX and 4DX. This is the 2D version.

105 minutes.
Parental Guidance 10-12 (Violence, Horror).
Comedy, Detective/Mystery, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

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Credits

Cast
Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, Lorenza Izzo, Owen Vaccaro, Colleen Camp, Kyle MacLachlan, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sunny Suljic
Director
Eli Roth
ScreenplayEric Kripke, from the novel by John Bellairs
MusicNathan Barr
CinematographyRogier Stoffers
EditingAndrew S. Eisen, Fred Raskin
Sound formatsDolby Digital, DTS, Dolby Atmos, Auro 11.1
Made in2018
Produced byAmblin Entertainment, Mythology Entertainment, DreamWorks

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

GenreFamily horror
LanguageLow impact, infrequent, not used to demean.
NudityNone
SexNone
ViolenceLow to mild impact, fairly frequent psychological violence, justified by context of horror and magic. There are scenes of explosions at war and children fighting each other at school that could unsettle little ones.
PrejudiceNone
BlasphemyNone
Drug abuseNone
CommentsContains scary scenes.
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

USA MPAA rating

PG: Parental Guidance SuggestedRated PG for thematic elements including sorcery, some action, scary images, rude humor and language
Runtime104
USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity
1
Violence
2
Blood / Gore / Gross
2
Guns / Weapons
2
Profanity
1
Alcohol / Drugs
0
Smoking
0
Disrespectful / Bad Attitude
4
Imitative Behaviour
3
Frightening / Tense Scenes
4
Jump Scenes
3
Tense Family Scenes
4
Music (Scary/Tense)
4
Music (Inappropriate)
0
Topics to talk about
4

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit
11 +
Positive messages
4
Positive role models
3
Violence
4
Sex
1
Language
2
Consumerism
1
Drinking, drugs, smoking
0

Ratings

Scale (Max)20

What the Critics say

Die Burger
Karla Janse van Vuuren quote iconOkkulte in 'House with a Clock' laat jou kriewel.
2
24.com
Alex Isaacs quote iconThe House with a Clock in Its Walls has impressed and disappointed critics all around the world in (almost) equal measure.
10
ScreenIt
Jim Judy quote iconTo be fair, it’s nowhere near a travesty, but its early meandering and flat nature, third act danger that goes too big in scope when it should have remained much smaller, and overall missed opportunity of being far more creative and imaginative than it ultimately is, means it could have used some more magic to make it better than it is.
9
Metacritic.com
38 critics
11
Rottentomatoes critics
161 critics
12
Rottentomatoes tomatometer
Tomatometer quote iconAn entertaining PG detour for gore maestro Eli Roth, The House with a Clock in Its Walls is a family-friendly blend of humor and horror with an infectious sense of fun.
13
Movie Review Query Engine
MRQE critics quote icon
12
CommonSenseMedia
Sandie Angulo Chen quote iconEli Roth’s aged-down spookfest has jump-worthy scenes.
10

What the People say

Metacritic.com users
40 users
12
Rottentomatoes users
1667 users
11
IMDB
6019 Netizens
13
The Movie DB
Community
13

Average .. 53%

11

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