If you loved The House with a Clock in Its Walls, try Fright Night

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The House with a Clock in Its Walls

2018 · dir. Eli Roth

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Fright Night

2011 · dir. Craig Gillespie

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Horror territory. If that's the register that drew you to The House with a Clock in Its Walls, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Fright Night is

Suburban Las Vegas, a house with drawn curtains, crickets chirping at dusk. A boy notices his neighbor's strange behavior, a magician's stage show seems like the only hope. It works better as a horror comedy than it should.

If you loved The House with a Clock in Its Walls, try Fright Night

The House with a Clock in Its Walls

Fright Night

What they share

What Fright Night is

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