The House With a Clock in Its Walls is a big budget children's horror film with all the schlock and camp expected from anything Eli Roth, but completely lacking the gorier elements of his previous works. The abundance of onscreen talent from veteran actors Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, and Kyle MacLachlan make for an enjoyable and breezy watch across the film's 105 minute runtime, in spite of the myriad of blatant flaws including atrocious performances by the child actors, and some pacing issues in the final act.

this film should be required viewing for elementary school students everywhere lol no way they ever even think of doing drugs after this one.

This movie had me in the theatre feeling like if I rustled my bag of sour Skittles too loudly a fuckin brown Xenomorph would swoop in and impale me with it's arm lmao