![]() ![]() You can bet your last Butterbeer that no place is more pumped about the upcoming film than Bellairs’ hometown of Marshall, aka the “real” New Zebedee, a southern Michigan city of about 7,000 on the banks of the Kalamazoo River. The fantasy film starring Jack Black and Cate Blanchett hits movie theaters in September. Nearly half a century later, late author John Bellairs’ best-seller is getting the big-screen treatment. His name is Lewis Barnavelt, the lovably nerdy protagonist in a series of gothic mysteries that debuted in 1973 with the children’s book “The House With a Clock in Its Walls.” Long before Harry Potter cast a collective spell with his wizardly ways, a chubby Midwest kid who dabbled in magic was fending off evil in the fictional town of New Zebedee, Mich. It’s too good to be missed.MARSHALL, Mich. I think kids 9, 10 and older could see this film and be fine. All this said, this is a great and spooky film about a kid who tries to adapt to a new school environment and make friends, and fixes the mistakes he made along the way. I do not recommend this film to anyone under 9 or 10. It did not scare me, but I know that it can be incredibly frightening to some kids, since it does have its share of violent, creepy scenes. In this way, Lewis being brave and persevering makes him a positive role model, as well as fixing his mistakes, which are the positive messages. The scariest scene is when the dead people confront and haunt Lewis by running around him and cracking their heads. Zimmermann), not to mention that dead people brought back to life by Lewis were the people who used to live in the house that had the clock in its walls. I also thought that there was a great amount of bravery and perseverance in the boy, named Lewis, for making right what he did wrong (bringing the dead back to life after reading books of how to perform magic like Jonathan and Ms. All we find out about that particular clock is that it was under the boiler. ![]() What I did not like about it was that it did not show the full inside-walls clock itself…just some of the giant cogs. At first, I thought that the clock in the walls looked just like some of the other clocks in Jonathan’s house, but it was actually much larger with enormous gears to control it. Some parts of the movie were true to the book and others weren’t but it was still a great adaptation. I read the book and then saw the movie, and I really like how the movie was depicted. But there’s a mysterious clock in the walls of the house, and it is so loud, that Jonathan keeps a lot of other clocks hanging in his house on the outside part of the walls to drown out the sound of the inside clock. ![]() Zimmermann, who is a witch and a frequent visitor at Jonathan’s house, and the three of them usually play cards together. Therefore, he goes to live with his uncle Jonathan, who is a warlock, and he also gets to know Ms. ![]() Who knew that he would get around to directing a kid-friendly horror/thriller flick after making films such as “Cabin Fever”, the first two “Hostel” films and “The Green Inferno”? It is about a kid named Lewis whose parents are killed in a car accident. I was very surprised when I found out that the movie was directed by Eli Roth. I saw this with my dad recently, and we both liked it. This was very good cinematic entertainment. ![]()
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