Monster House:
Plot
The plot revolves around a preteen boy, Douglas J. "D.J." Walters (Mitchel Musso), who spends lots of his free time spying the house across the street and its owner, Mr. Nebbercracker (Steve Buscemi), a crotchety old man who terrorizes anyone who steps anywhere on his lawn or close to his house.

Even though DJ has seen Nebbercracker take several toys from kids that have stepped in his grounds, his parents (Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard), dismiss his comments easily as "kid talk". They then leave town for the weekend for a dental convention.

Charles "Chowder" (Sam Lerner), a chubby teenage boy who is DJ's best friend, shows up with a new basketball to play with DJ. When they lose it in Nebbercracker's lawn, DJ ventures there to recover it, thinking he might be asleep. However, he appears and grabs DJ lifting him and screaming at him. This causes him to collapse, seemingly dead, causing DJ to feel responsible. While Nebbercracker is being carried away by the paramedics, he drops a gold key on his lawn, which DJ scoops up.

DJ's apathetic Punk babysitter Elizabeth (Maggie Gyllenhaal), or "Zee" as she prefers to be called, arrives taking over the house and sending DJ to his room. At night, DJ gets a call apparently from Nebbercracker's house. Also, Zee's boyfriend, Bones (Jason Lee), comes over to the house and start making fun of DJ, scaring him.

After they leave, DJ calls Chowder and they agree to meet at a construction lot. As he leaves, he overhears Zee and Bones talking about Nebbercracker, and how he took a kite from Bones when he was a 10 year old. Bones also tells of how he has seen the old man speaking to his house and about a legend around town that he fattened up his wife and ate her. However, Zee ends up kicking him out after he pounces on her.

A drunk Bones goes over to Mr. Nebbercracker's house and rants at it while stepping on the lawn and ripping the grass off it. As he does it, the door opened revealing Bones' "awesome kite". He attempts to retrieve it, only to be swallowed up by the house.

After DJ meet Chowder, they decide to investigate the house. Chowder goes up to it, and tries to ring its doorbell and run, but the house comes to life and attempts to eat him. They run back to DJ's house and spend the night watching across the street.

The next morning, a girl named Jenny Bennet (Spencer Locke) comes up to DJ's house and sells Zee some Halloween chocolates. After giving the kids the chocolates, they see the same girl going to Mr. Nebbercracker's house to sell too. The boys run out to tell her to go away, but the house tries to eat her as well. However, DJ and Chowder manage to catch Jenny before she is eaten. When Zee sees them outside she goes out but doesn't believe anything and drives off to look for Bones.

Scared by what happened, they return to DJ's room where both kids try to impress Jenny, pretending to be older and more mature. As they keep watching the house, they see how a small dog is swallowed when he is about to pee on the lawn. Jenny, shocked, decides to send for the police. The police officers Landers and Lester (Kevin James and Nick Cannon respectively) do not believe their story, mainly because the house doesn't react to any teasing while the cops are in front of it.
The children then go to an arcade and talk to a video-game addict nicknamed Skull (Jon Heder) looking for advice. They learn that the house is actually a monster known as "domus mactibilis" (deadly home in Latin), which is created when a human soul merges with a man-made structure, such as a house. They conclude that the house is Nebbercracker back from the dead and that the only way to 'kill' the house is to destroy its heart which Skull reveals is its only weakness. Upon returning to DJ's house, the three draw out a plan to destroy the house, after deciding that the furnace is the heart. They conclude this since smoke has been coming out of the chimney ever since Mr. Nebbercracker died.

The kids devise a plan to make a dummy using a vacuum, and filling it with medicines stolen from Chowder's father pharmacy intending to "drug" the house. As the house is about to swallow the dummy, the cops arrive again prompting the house to "hide" again. Officer Landers decide to take the three kids to jail after discovering the stolen medicines. After putting them in the car, Lester hears a sound from inside the house and the two go investigate it. As they approach, a tree disarms Lester and the house swallows him. Seconds later, it also devours Landers. The kids watch, horrified, and the house soon also eats the police car and dummy, though the kids survive.
As the group is trapped inside the house, they notice it's asleep probably assuming that it had gotten rid of the kids. They start to explore the house finding boxes of explosives (indicating that Nebbercracker used to work in demolition), a pair of binoculars on the end of an extender facing DJ's house (meaning that he was watching DJ just like how DJ was watching him), and pictures of a very large woman, among other things. They conclude that Nebbercracker did have a wife. As they descend to the basement they find the stash of stolen toys Nebbercracker has taken from kids. They also see a locked circus-style cage. DJ opens it with the key the old man had dropped previously and they see the body of the wife covered in cement. She was once known as Constance the Giantess, and Nebbercracker had built a shrine around her after she died.

When DJ trips and lands on Constance's body, revealing her skeleton, the house wakes up and starts attacking the kids. However, they manage to escape as they force the house to "vomit" them outside. As they are returning home, they see Nebbercracker being brought back to his house, with an arm in a sling. DJ confronts him and tells him how he knows about Constance. Nebbercracker breaks down and reveals his story.

Nebbercracker tells of how he met Constance (Kathleen Turner), a very obese lady who was an unwilling member of a circus freak show, and fell in love with her. After helping her escape they moved to a new land and he started building the house she always wanted. However, children taunted her for her weight and threw things at her, making her hate children. One day, as a consequence to her attacks, Constance lost her footing and as she fell from the edge of the foundation of the house she grabbed the lever of a cement mixer, which covered her in cement after she fell several meters below to her death.. A saddened Nebbercracker finished the house because he knew she would have wanted that.

Apparently, after Constance's death, her spirit possessed the house she wanted to see finished, further attacking any child who approaches. To protect the children from the wrath of his house, Mr. Nebbercracker pretended to be a child-hating old man to keep them away from the house — especially during Halloween. However, Nebbercracker feels it is time for the house to be destroyed. The house overhears, and becomes very angry attacking him and the kids.

As they flee from the now-walking house, they run to the construction lot where Chowder and DJ met earlier. Reluctantly, Nebbercracker attempts to throw a stick of dynamite inside the house, but he fails. Chowder then attacks the house with a backhoe saving Nebbercracker. this destroys the house's structure, but since the chimney is intact (which DJ realizes is the heart not the furnace after all), the body rebuilds itself, but as a mangled pile of wood and bricks with broken eye-windows. DJ then takes the dynamite and climbs with Jenny to the top of a crane to throw the stick down the house's chimney. As they attempt to do it, DJ is scared and doesn't think he can do it, but Jenny kisses him to encourage him.

DJ falls from the crane, clinging to the hook at the end of the cable. As he swings forth he throws the dynamite down the chimney, and as he swings back he grabs Chowder who was being attacked below, and they jump into a trench to protect from the explosion which destroys the house and since the chimney was destroyed this time it doesn't regenerate as its heart is gone. As the trio reunite, they see Nebbercracker dancing with the spirit of Constance as he let goes of her and she fades away. DJ apologizes to him and Nebbercracker thanks him for freeing him and Constance.

The film ends with the kids returning to the hole where the house was, and Chowder, DJ, and Jenny helping Nebbercracker return all the toys the house had taken from kids. Jenny is then picked up by her parents and she says that they should hang together again sometime. Chowder gets his ball back from Nebbercracker and after playing ball for a minute the two decide to go trick-or-treating after all.

During the credits, it is shown that everyone that was eaten by the house, including the dog, steps out of the basement bewildered but unharmed, and that Bones and Zee are not together anymore, since she has decided to go out with Skull. Bones doesn't care, as he has his long-lost kite back. Officers Landers and Lister decide to spend the rest of the night "inspecting" candy to shake off their little "experience" of being eaten.
Characters

* Douglas J. "DJ" Walters: (Mitchel Musso) A preteen boy who is known for spying on Nebbercracker through a telescope, so much that Chowder claims no one sits next to them at lunch. He is preteen yet sometimes acts, and is treated, like a younger boy and is often thought crazy as he is one of the few who knows the house is alive after he uses *69 on the house after he supposedly manslaughters Nebbercracker. He slightly resembles director Gil Kenan in terms of dark, greasy black hair. He destroys the house in the end.

* Charles "Chowder": (Sam Lerner) DJ's chubby best friend. He has a habit of acting slightly strange and immature throughout the film and is somewhat of an idiot. He buys a new basketball at the beginning of the film and gets it back from Nebbercracker at the end. DJ is better than him at the sport. His father works at a pharmacy and his mother has a presonal trainer whom she goes to the movies with the night DJ and Chowder are first attacked by the house. He fights the house off in a backhoe and helps defeat it in the end.

* Jenny Bennet: (Spencer Locke) An intelligent girl who attends an all-girls school named Westbook Prep and is the only girl to know of the house's possessed nature. Both DJ and Chowder have crushes on her but it is slightly obvious she prefers DJ. She sells chocolate and obtains $20 from Zee during her first appearance to save DJ's house from being egged and to raise money to secure a successful future. She helps DJ destroy the house by lighting the dynamite and kissing him giving him the courage he needs (as well as his first kiss).

* Mr. Nebbercracker: (Steve Buscemi) An old man who lives across the street from DJ. He is known for stealing anything that lands on his lawn e.g. Chowder's ball, Eliza's (the little girl voiced by Ryan Newman) tricycle and Bones' kite, just to make sure that the house does not eat them. He is thought dead after interrogating DJ but he later shows up with just a broken arm. He ends up realizing that he needs to destroy the house and attempts to do so but fails and leaves the job to DJ, Chowder and Jenny. After the fight is over he dances with the now freed spirit of Constance, thanks the kids for setting him and Constance free and returns all of the stolen toys to their owners no longer needing to pretend to be a child-hating old man.

* Elizabeth "Zee": (Maggie Gyllenhaal) DJ's babysitter appears to be a charming girl who likes listening to songs by Olivia Newton-John but is actually a punk who wears black and is really into heavy metal. At the beginning, her boyfriend is Bones, but she later goes out with Skull (possibly to make Bones jealous). When she meets Jenny, it is revealed that she was kicked from Westbook Prep school.

* DJ's Parents: (Catherine O'Hara and Fred Willard) DJ's parents are both apparently dentists. His mother still treats him like a child and is scared when DJ's voice breaks for a moment, but his father is less concerned. He also used to spy with binoculars at the two beautiful Jensen twins.

* Bones: (Jason Lee) Zee's boyfriend at the beginning of the film whom she claims is in a band. He takes great pleasure in torturing DJ. When he was 10, he had a beloved kite that was stolen by Nebbercracker which the house later uses as bait to lure him in so she can eat him after tearing grass out of her lawn. He is returned after the house is destroyed and discovers Zee is now dating Skull but doesn't care because he now has his kite back.

* Reginald "Skull" Skulinski: (Jon Heder) A videogame-crazed comic geek who is known for playing on an arcade game called "Thou Art Dead" for 4 days on one quarter, a gallon of chocolate milk and an adult diaper. He provides DJ, Chowder and Jenny with information on how a house can become possessed and how to destroy it (target the heart). He starts going out with Elizabeth in a scene during the credits. This unlikely pairing of "videogame nerd and rock chick" is assumed to be an in-joke that Skull is a tribute to Ron Jeremy, who is obvioiusly not modeled after his voice actor Jon Heder. He is physically modeled after Jeremy, particularly his face. Jeremy also starred in an adult movie where he appeared dressed as Nintendo Mascot character Mario Mario.

* Officers Landers and Lester: (Kevin James and Nick Cannon) Landers is an experienced cop with an easygoing, jokey manner, who thinks of the kid's case as just "a couple of teeter-toters hoped up on too many Pixie Sticks", while Lester is a rookie on his first week. He is the first adult to take the house as a serious threat, but he and Landers are later eaten by the house. A post-credit sequence shows that they emerged, shaken but unharmed, from the house-site after the film's climax.

* Constance the Giantess: (Kathleen Turner) A rather fat woman who used to be a novelty act in a circus who was freed by the love-struck Nebbercracker. While they were building a house, Constance was continuously hit by kids throwing eggs on Halloween and tried to attack them with an axe but fell backwards to the cellar while cement poured onto her resulting in her death. As a result, when the house was finished, the house was possessed by the child-hating soul of Constance. Ultimatly DJ destroys the house with the help of Chowder, Jenny and Nebbercracker himself and her spirit appears one last time to dance with Nebbercracker before finally moving on to the afterlife free after 45 years of possesing the house which trapped her there.

Release

In a Columbia press release distributed the company's New York City headquarters, at an early-May 2006 screening of the film's first half, the voice cast was listed as including Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin James, Jason Lee, Catherine O'Hara, Kathleen Turner, and Fred Willard.

Director Kenan won the UCLA Spotlight Award for his live-action/animated horror-fantasy short The Lark. On the basis of that film, he was signed by the Creative Artists Agency (CAA) upon graduation. Kenan also garnered a 2001/02 British Academy Fellowship and the 2001/02 Lew Wasserman Fellowship in Film Production. Following Monster House, Kenan began developing The City of Ember, adapted by screenwriter Caroline Thompson from the Jeanne DuPrau book, for Walden Media and Playtone.

The film was released on DVD in the US on October 24, 2006, and in the UK on Monday, December 11, 2006.

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