Horror maven Eli Roth's unlikely pivot to family fare with 'The House with a Clock in

[The Patriot]

Horror maven Eli Roth's unlikely pivot to family fare with 'The House with a Clock in Its Walls'

09-25-2018 10:08 AM

Eli Roth sat in an editing room on the Universal Pictures lot in September, eagerly preparing to show off a scene from his latest movie, "The House with a Clock in Its Walls."Given his filmography, which features such gory and gruesome low-budget horror movies as "Cabin Fever" and "Hostel," this would normally be the moment when you’d steel your stomach for an evisceration, a disemboweling or perhaps an impalement. But this is a different kind of Eli Roth movie altogether -- about an awkward, innocent young boy discovering the wonders of magic.


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