![]() ![]() ![]() Things are quite different here,” Black’s character says to the astonished boy. The next-door neighbor, Florence Zimmermann, is an elegant, purple-loving witch played by Blanchett. He moves to a Michigan town to live with his mysterious, chocolate-loving uncle, played by Black, who turns out to be a warlock. The story - by Eric Kripke, creator of TV’s “Supernatural” - centers on a recently orphaned 10-year-old boy named Lewis in 1955. The film is ostensibly a Harry Potter-lite coming of age yarn, but the real spooky thing is why Cate Blanchett and Jack Black decided to tag along. Horror specialist director Eli Roth has stumbled badly as he enters the dangerous realm of whimsical, which is added here at such high doses as to be lethal. The 10-year-old hero at the center of the film “The House With a Clock in Its Walls” likes to look up words in the dictionary, like “foreboding” and “indomitable.” He might want to be familiar with the term “execrable” - that’s a good one for this movie.Īdapted from the 1973 John Bellairs young adult supernatural thriller, the film somehow manages its own witchcraft in finding the perfect un-sweet spot - it’s too scary for little kids, not scary enough for older ones, not funny or clever enough for their parents, and too redundant for everyone. ![]()
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