This movie has a scene that happens today – October 31. I hope you enjoy this film and watch it tonight.
MONSTER HOUSE
Horace Nebbercracker takes any toys that get on his lawn. On the day before Halloween, the parents of DJ, who lives across the street go on a trip, leaving him in the care of a punk babysitter nicknamed Zee. DJ thinks Nebbercracker’s house is possessed and while trying to recover his best friend Chowder’s basketball from the lawn, is grabbed by Nebbercracker. Nebbercracker has an attack and is taken to the hospital. DJ later gets phone calls from the empty house and Z’s boyfriend Bones is eaten by the house. Later Chowder is almost eaten. On October 31, 2006 [26:32 to 1:25:02] the boys save Jenny Bennet from being eaten by the house while trying to sell Halloween candy dor-to-door. The police don’t believe their story about the house. Skull Skulinski, a video gamer tells them a soul can possess a house and to get rid of it they must kill the heart. The boys and Jenny decide to use a dummy to drug the house with cold medicine. They are stopped by the cops, who get swallowed by the house. The kids, who were locked into the squad car end up inside the house. They learn Nebbercracker was a demolitions expert in the Army and had a very large wife named Constance. They find her skeleton encased in cement in the basement. They are almost captured by the house, but Jenny grabs the foyer chandelier, which is the house’s uvula, and it spits them out. Nebbercracker comes home and they learn how he met Constance at a circus. The couple started to build their house, but in a scuffle with some kids on Halloween, Constance accidentally fell into some fresh cement and died. Her soul merged with the house, which now hates kids and Halloween. The house becomes mobile and chases after them. They lure it to a construction site. Nebbercracker gives DJ some dynamite. Chowder uses a bulldozer to lure the house closer. DJ climbs a very tall crane and after a kiss from Jenny for luck, drops the dynamite down the chimney. The explosion destroys the house and frees Constance’s spirit. The kids and Nebbercracker give all the toys he had taken to the trick-or-treaters.
A funny and just scary enough film. The 3d animation is fantastic. Good characters and a good plot make this a special movie.
In the film at 4:31 DJ gives the date as October 30.
Producers - Jack Rapke and Steve Starkey
Director - Gil Kenan
Awards – This movie was nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar at the 79th Academy Awards
Screenplay - Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler
Runtime – 1 hour 31 minutes
Released – July 21, 2006
Starring -
Mitchel Musso as DJ, a 12 year old boy who spies on Nebbercracker through a telescope
Sam Lerner as Charles "Chowder", a 12 year old boy, who is DJ' s best friend
Spencer Locke as Jenny Bennett, an intelligent 11 year old girl who likes DJ
Steve Buscemi as Horace Nebbercracker, a former US Army "demolition squad" expert
Maggie Gyllenhaal as Elizabeth "Zee", DJ' s punk babysitter
Catherine O'Hara as DJ’s mom
Fred Willard as DJ' s dad
Jason Lee as Bones, Zee' s boyfriend
Jon Heder as Reginald "Skull" Skulinski, a videogame-crazed comic geek
Kevin James as Officer Landers, an experienced cop with a sarcastic personality
Nick Cannon as Officer Lester, a rookie cop on his first week
Kathleen Turner as Constance, a 450 pound woman who was in a circus' freak show
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