The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Name: The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Genre: Fantasy, Family, Comedy
Released: 2018-09-15
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Rating: 6.1
Cast: Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Kyle MacLachlan, Renée Elise Goldsberry

This house knows what makes you tick.

The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

Timing: 1:45 (105 min)

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Release date

2018-09-15

Country

India, United States, Canada

Production

Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Amblin Partners, Mythology Entertainment

Genre

Fantasy, Family, Comedy

Budget

$42 000 000

Revenue

$131 457 147

Website

http://housewithaclock.com

Director

Eli Roth

Actors

Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Kyle MacLachlan, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Colleen Camp, Sunny Suljic, Lorenza Izzo, Braxton Bjerken, Vanessa Anne Williams
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

James Vanderbilt, Bradley J. Fischer, Eric Kripke, Laeta Kalogridis, William Sherak, W. Mark McNair, Tracey Nyberg

Operator

Rogier Stoffers

Composer

Nathan Barr

Artist

Audition

Jeanne McCarthy, Nicole Abellara Hallman

Editing

Fred Raskin, Andrew S. Eisen, Natalie Angel
All team (159)

Short description

When ten-year-old Lewis is suddenly orphaned, he is sent to live with his Uncle Jonathan in a creaky (and creepy) old mansion with a mysterious ticking noise that emanates from the walls. Upon discovering that his uncle is a warlock, Lewis begins learning magic, but when he rebelliously resurrects an evil warlock he must find the secret of the house and save the world from destruction.

What's left behind the scenes

The fictional house with the clock is based on a real mansion located in Marshall, Michigan, the hometown of John Bellairs (1938-1991), whose novel the film is based on. Marshall served as the prototype for the town of New Zebidee, where many of the writer's books take place.
In the scene where Kate Blanchett's character tells Owen Vaccaro's character about losing both her magic and loved ones, her arm is shown with a tattoo signifying that she was once in a concentration camp.
Some of the drawings in the magic book that Jack Black's character shows Owen Vaccaro's character are elements of a Rorschach inkblot test – a personality test that includes evaluating the subject's reaction to ambiguous inkblots, first published in 1921 by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922).
In the pumpkin scene, all the pumpkin pulp had to be digitally recolored a brighter orange, as otherwise it resembled the color of blood too much.
The original novel (1973) by John Bellairs (1938-1991) is set between August 1948 and April 1949, while the film's plot takes place in 1955.
The house is based on a real mansion located in Marshall, Michigan, the hometown of John Bellairs, the author the film is based on. Marshall served as the prototype for the town of New-Zebedee, where many of the writer's books take place.
In the scene where Kate Blanchett's character tells the character played by Owen Vaccaro about losing her magic and loved ones, her hand with a tattoo is shown, signifying that she was once in a concentration camp.
Some of the drawings in the magic book are Rorschach test elements.
In the pumpkin scene, all of the pumpkin pulp had to be recolored to a more orange hue in post-production, as it resembled blood too much.

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