Movies Like The House with a Clock in Its Walls

If you liked The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018), a comedy and family movie directed by Eli Roth, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Mostly Ghostly (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also family and fantasy
Based on the successful book series by R.L. Stine, this spooky tale finds 11-year-old Max making a deal with the ghosts who haunt his home. If Max helps them find what was responsible for their parents' disappearance…
2
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy and fantasy
Be careful what you wish for. With their after school junk business, best friends Sonny and Sam hope to find treasure in other people’s trash. But when cleaning out the old Stine house, they open a locked book that…
3
The Witches (1990)
★ 7/10Also fantasy and family
While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical…
4
Mostly Ghostly 3: One Night in Doom House (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also family and fantasy
Just one enchanted jewel stands between earth and an army of evil spirits led by the devious ghoul, Phears. With the help of his new girlfriend and ghost pals, Max Doyle races to find the crystal and save the world.
5
Coraline (2009)
★ 8/10Also family and fantasy
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real…
6
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble (1993)
★ 6.4/10Also family and horror
On Halloween night, two precocious little girls try to save their parents from their nasty old capitalist aunt's greedy clutches. Magic abounds and they meet mysterious new friends along the way.
7
The Canterville Ghost (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and family
An American family moves in to the Canterville Chase, a London mansion that has been haunted by ghost Sir Simon De Canterville for 300 years.
8
Bogus (1996)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and comedy
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
9
Goosebumps (2015)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and comedy
After moving to a small town, Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets next door neighbor Hannah, the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine. When Zach unintentionally unleashes real…
10
Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost (1999)
★ 7.4/10Also comedy and mystery
Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang visit Oakhaven, Massachusetts to seek strange goings on involving a famous horror novelist and his ancestor who is rumored to have been a witch.
11
The Addams Family (1991)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and fantasy
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to…
12
Mickey's House of Villains (2002)
★ 7.3/10Also family and comedy
The villains from the popular animated Disney films are gathered at the House of Mouse with plans to take over. Soon, the villains take over the house and kick out Mickey, Donald and Goofy. It's all up to Mickey and…
13
Halloweentown (1998)
★ 6.8/10Also family and fantasy
On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she's a witch, discovers a secret portal, and is transported to Halloweentown — a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world. But…
14
Roald Dahl's The Witches (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and fantasy
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…
15
The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It (2007)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and fantasy
Cassie, a 13 year old Gothic girl, is trying to fit in at her new school. To entertain herself, she plays a series of pranks on the popular kids and her younger brother, Max. When she goes to a Halloween store looking…
16
A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also family and fantasy
Recruited by a secret society of babysitters, a high schooler battles the Boogeyman and his monsters when they nab the boy she's watching on Halloween.
17
The Little Vampire (2000)
★ 7/10Also family and comedy
Based on the popular books, the story tells of Tony who wants a friend to add some adventure to his life. What he gets is Rudolph, a vampire kid with a good appetite. The two end up inseparable, but their fun is cut…
18
Casper Meets Wendy (1998)
★ 5.9/10Also family and fantasy
When a warlock threatens Wendy the Good Little Witch, she and her aunts hide out at a resort where Casper the Ghost is vacationing with his uncles. Although Casper and Wendy are told ghosts and witches don't get along…
19
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and fantasy
A concise adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows" about Mr. Toad's motor mania, followed by a short retelling of Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" concerning schoolmaster Ichabod Crane.
20
Addams Family Values (1993)
★ 7/10Also comedy and family
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky…