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LAT's Justin Chang on THWCW and LIFIS similarity

Posted by: Antibody on Sep 20, 15:15

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-the-house-with-a-clock-in-its-walls-review-20180919-story.html

This week in plot-point coincidences, there are two new pictures — “The House With a Clock in Its Walls” and “Life Itself” — in which a child is sent to live with a weird uncle after losing Mom and Dad in a car crash. One of these is a full-on horror movie, as patently unbelievable as it is genuinely terrifying, full of cheap shocks and torturous metaphysics and sporting perhaps the most annoying title of the year.

The other one, “The House With a Clock in Its Walls,” is a moderately transporting, visually elaborate young-adult fantasy directed by Eli Roth,

Yell





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