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Movies that feel like The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)

If you loved The House with a Clock in Its Walls, the closest films we have are Roald Dahl's The Witches (2020), The Little Stranger (2018) and Anna and the Apocalypse (2018). All three share The House with a Clock in Its Walls' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Paramount Plus Premium and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 65% Rotten Tomatoes6.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Eli Rothwittyplayfuldreamlikedreadunsettlingtwisty
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Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
5.4comedy · fantasy · family

Common ground: orphan

The difference: Without the same twists

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%5.5mystery · horror

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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Anna and the Apocalypse
2018 · dir. John McPhail
🍅 77%6.1horror · comedy · fantasy

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven—at Christmas—forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash, and sing their way to survival. In a desperate race to reach their loved ones, they soon learn that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.

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Extra Ordinary
2019 · dir. Mike Ahern
🍅 98%6.4fantasy · comedy · horror

Comedy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: Reviewed even better

A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a rock star looking to use her for Satanic purposes.

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Krampus
2015 · dir. Michael Dougherty
🍅 67%6.2horror · comedy · fantasy

Fantasy built on wit, twice over

When his dysfunctional family clashes over the holidays, young Max is disillusioned and turns his back on Christmas. Little does he know, this lack of festive spirit has unleashed the wrath of Krampus: a demonic force of ancient evil intent on punishing non-believers.

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · dir. André Øvredal
🍅 78%6.2horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: haunted house

Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

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Malignant
2021 · dir. James Wan
🍅 77%6.2horror · mystery

Twisty horror, and it commits to that

Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.

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Good Manners
2018 · dir. Marco Dutra
🍅 96%6.7fantasy · horror · mystery

Both lean on dream logic more than on mystery

The difference: Leans further into drama

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.

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Monster House
2006 · dir. Gil Kenan
🍅 75%6.7animation · comedy · family

The same preoccupation in both: haunted house

Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.

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Bubba Ho-tep
2002 · dir. Don Coscarelli
🍅 78%6.9comedy · horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: amused

The "true" story of what really became of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then missed his chance to switch back. He must team up with JFK and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy for the souls of their fellow residents.

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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%6.9fantasy · horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: orphan

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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Scream
2022 · dir. Tyler Gillett
🍅 76%6.3horror · mystery

Dread-soaked family in both cases

Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

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