The House with a Clock in Its Walls
This house knows what makes you tick.
Country
Production
Budget
$42 000 000
Revenue
$131 457 147
Website
Director
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)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
James Vanderbilt, Bradley J. Fischer, Eric Kripke, Laeta Kalogridis, William Sherak, W. Mark McNair, Tracey Nyberg
Operator
Composer
Artist
Jon Hutman
Audition
Jeanne McCarthy, Nicole Abellara Hallman
Editing
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
- Some of the drawings in the magic book are Rorschach test elements.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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).
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