‘The House With A Clock In Its Walls’ Trailer & Images Reveal Eli Roth’s Latest

Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for The House With a Clock in its Walls, the latest film from director Eli Roth. The family-friendly magical adventure film follows a 10 year old boy who goes to live with his uncle (Jack Black) in “a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart”. When a series of witches and warlocks jolt’s the town’s sleepy facade to life, the boy and his uncle get caught up in a magical adventure.

Although Roth’s latest effort, Death Wish, opened to a disappointing box office and middling reviews at the beginning of the month, this film seems to taking the genre director into completely new territory. And based on this trailer, it also seems to be a breath of fresh air. In addition to Black, The House with a Clock in Its Walls also stars Cate Blanchett, Owen Vaccaro, Kyle MacLachlan, Colleen Camp, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Vanessa Anne Williams, and Sunny Suljic. The film arrives in theaters on September 21, 2018. Here’s the first full trailer, along with and accompanying poster and new some images below:

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In the tradition of Amblin classics where fantastical events occur in the most unexpected places, Jack Black and two-time Academy Award® winner Cate Blanchett star in The House with a Clock in Its Walls, from Amblin Entertainment. The magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis (Owen Vaccaro) who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town’s sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches when Lewis accidentally awakens the dead.

Based on the beloved children’s classic written by John Bellairs and illustrated by Edward Gorey, The House with a Clock in Its Walls is directed by master frightener Eli Roth and written by Eric Kripke (creator of TV’s Supernatural). Co-starring Kyle MacLachlan, Colleen Camp, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Vanessa Anne Williams and Sunny Suljic, it is produced by Mythology Entertainment’s Brad Fischer (Shutter Island) and James Vanderbilt (Zodiac), as well as Kripke