The official trailer for Eli Roth's upcoming kid-friendly horror flick The House with a Clock in its Walls has landed online. Cast, Cate Blanchett, Jack Black, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Kyle MacLachlan, Colleen Camp, Perla Middleton, Sunny Suljic, Owen Vaccaro, Braxton Bjerken.
Based on the novel by John Bellairs, the film centers around Lewis Barnavelt, after losing his parents, is sent to Michigan to live with his uncle Jonathan. He discovers his uncle is a warlock, and enters a world of magic and sorcery. But this power is not limited to good people: Lewis learns of Isaac Izard, an evil wizard who wanted to cause the Apocalypse so that he could see what happened afterwards. To do this, he constructed a magical clock with black magic, as long as it exists it will keep ticking, counting down to doomsday. He died before he could finish the clock, but he hid the clock in his house, where Uncle Jonathan now lives. Now Lewis and Jonathan must find the clock before it's too late, and before Isaac's wife, Selena, gets to it.
Written by Eric Kripke and Directed by Eli Roth. The House with a Clock in its Walls' will hit theaters September 21st 2018, via Universal Pictures.
