Where to watch
Each link opens a search on that service. Checked 13 October 2026.
Streaming data from JustWatch
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
MEANRANK
60/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3951
- IMDb #4413
- Google retired #2812
- Rotten Tomatoes #3438
- Metacritic #3260
- Letterboxd #4667
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3031
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4310
- Metacritic Critics #2714
- Metacritic Audience #3948
- Kinopoisk #4923
- AlloCiné #3836
- Trakt #3459
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 45, highest is Google on 78.
See the most agreed on films →A recently orphaned boy goes to live with his eccentric uncle in a creaky old mansion that ticks with hidden magic. He discovers his uncle is a warlock and the house contains a powerful hidden clock, built by a dark magician, that could bring about the end of the world. The boy must learn magic to help his uncle find the clock before time runs out.
Details
- Director
- Eli Roth
- Writer
- Eric Kripke
- Based on
- The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs
- Released
- 15 September 2018
- Country
- India, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $42.0M
- Box office
- $131.5M
This title elsewhere
Cast
Full cast (23) →
More like this
C
69
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
C
60
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
A
81
How to Train Your Dragon 2
B
79
Kung Fu Panda
B
74
School of Rock
B
75
Kung Fu Panda 2
B
76
Ice Age
C
68
Cinderella
C
69
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
C
69
Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
B
78
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
B
78
Blue Velvet
Beyond the numbers
All lists →
30 September 2026
The most popular film genres? What the ratings actually show
Drama leads the total, but volume, a typical film’s attention and average score tell different stories.
29 September 2026
Films rated 4.7 on Google: a 59-film archive
A historical selection, with a closer look at spectacle, sequels and what a high audience average leaves out.
29 September 2026
Films rated 4.9 on Google: a 56-film archive
Saved star ratings, useful comparisons and a few places to begin. This is an archive, not a live Google ranking.
16 September 2026
The r/TrueFilm canon's top twenty, from the 2018 poll
A historical community ranking, with new viewing notes and a closer look at the taste it records.
27 August 2026
11 films with much higher critic than audience approval
The score gaps are clear. The films, and the reasons to choose or resist them, are more complicated.
29 October 2026
Five great TV scores—and the scenes that explain why
Twin Peaks, Succession, Game of Thrones, Westworld and Stranger Things, judged for what their original music does inside the drama.
