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The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) on Netflix

PG20181h 45mComedyFamilyFantasyMysterySci-Fi

After a car crash leaves ten-year-old Lewis Barnavelt an orphan, he moves into his uncle Jonathan's mansion in New Zebedee. Jonathan is a warlock, and a ticking comes from the walls.

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  • IMDb6.1/1060,571 votes
  • Rotten Tomatoes65%

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Ten-year-old Lewis Barnavelt loses his parents in a car crash and is taken in by his uncle Jonathan, who lives in New Zebedee, Michigan. A ticking sound comes from inside the walls of the house, and Jonathan admits that he is a warlock and that his neighbor Florence Zimmerman is a witch. The house once belonged to a warlock named Isaac Izard, who hid a clock in it. Jonathan has been searching for that clock and trying to learn its purpose.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

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  • The final designs for the film's Jack-o'-lantern characters included input from Steven Spielberg, one of the challenges facing the production.
  • The visual effects team had to build massive gears, one 10 feet and another 14½ feet, for the film's Clock Room sequence.
  • The film opened to $26.9 million in North America, the best opening weekend of director Eli Roth's career, beating Hostel's $19.6 million in 2006.

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