Monster House

Overview

A suburban home has become physically animated by a vengeful human soul looking to stir up trouble from beyond the grave, and it's up to three adventurous kids from the neighborhood to do battle with the structural golem in this comically frightful tale, directed by Gil Kenan and featuring the voices of Steve Buscemi, Nick Cannon, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Kevin James. DJ Harvard (voice of Mitchel Musso) lives directly across the street from a most unusual house. A malevolent entity that longs to feed on the energy of the living, the once peaceful house that looms ominously outside of DJ's bedroom window would like nothing more than the chance to feast on the children of the neighborhood. As Halloween begins to draw near and the children of the neighborhood prepare for another long night of trick-or-treating, it appears as if it may be the house that is in for the biggest treat of all. Now, with the adults turning a deaf ear to DJ's strange findings, it's up to the brave young boy and his faithful friends Chowder (voice of Sam Lerner) and Jenny (Spencer Locke) to break through the barrier of the supernatural and defeat the powers of darkness before the house grows too powerful to fight.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/18/2016
UPC:	0043396483460
Original Release:	2006
Rating:	PG
Source:	Sony Pictures
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:31:00

Special Features

Closed Caption; 7 Featurettes including: Imaginary Heroes, Beginner's Luck, The Best of Friends, Lots of Dots, Black Box Theater, Making It Real, Did You Hear That?; Multi-Angle Evolution: Eliza vs. Nebbecracker; Filmmaker Commentary; The Art of Monster House - Photo Gallery; The Adventures Continues with DVD-ROM Link to Exciting Games, Downloads & Activities!

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Steve Buscemi	Nebbercracker
Nick Cannon	Officer Lister
Maggie Gyllenhaal	Zee
Jon Heder	Skull,Reginald 'Skull' Skulinski (voce)
Kevin James	Officer Landers
Jason Lee	Bones
Sam Lerner	Chowder
Spencer Locke	Jenny
Mitchel Musso	DJ,Actor
Catherine O'Hara	DJ's Mom
Kathleen Turner	Constance,Constance (voce)
Fred Willard	DJ's Dad
Ryan Newman	Actor,Little Girl
Brittany Curran	Actor
Freimut Götsch	Nebbercracker
Maximilian Artajo	Douglas J. "DJ¿ Hartner
Claudia Urbschat-Mingues	Zee
Johannes Walenta	Ketchup
Michael Iwannek	Reginald "Skull" Skulinski
Roland Hemmo	Officer Landers
Ian McConnel	Paramedic #2,Paramedic
Woody Schultz	Paramedic
Erik Walker	Bullies
Matthew Fahey	Voices
Kevin the Dog	Kevin the Dog
Blanchard Marissa	Background Voices
Ranjani Brow	Background Voices
Kimberly Beck Clark	Background Voices
Miles Clark	Background Voices
David Cowgill	Background Voices
McKenna Cowgill	Background Voices
Harrison Fahn	Background Voices
Frannie Felder	Background Voices
Spencer Ganus	Background Voices
Bridget Hoffman	Background Voices,Background Voices
Mary Mouser	Background Voices
Emanuel Orlando	Background Voices
Zoey Poll	Background Voices
Zack Shada	Background Voices
Justin Shenkarow	Background Voices
W.K. Stratton	Background Voices
Hans Tester	Background Voices
Corbett Tuck	Background Voices
Ariel Winter	Background Voices
Lora Witty	Background Voices
Tyler Zaentz	Background Voices
Kayleen Ancheta	Motion Capture Models
Douglas Pipes	Composer

Technical Credits

Dan Harmon

Rob Schrab

Pamela Pettler

Gil Kenan	Director
Dan Harmon	Screenwriter
Rob Schrab	Screenwriter
Pamela Pettler	Screenwriter
Steven Spielberg	Executive Producer,Producer
Robert Zemeckis	Executive Producer,Producer
Jason Clark	Executive Producer,Producer
Jack Rapke	Producer
Steve Starkey	Producer
Heather Kelton	Producer
Bennett Schneir	Producer
Demian Gordon	Special Effects
Oscar G. Castillo	Special Effects
Kyudon Choi	Special Effects
Todd Boyce	Special Effects
David Davies	Special Effects
Michael Edland	Special Effects,Special Effects
Hae-Jeon Lee	Special Effects
Joe Jackman	Special Effects
Stephen Marshall	Special Effects
Marcus Nordenstam	Special Effects
Aaron James Rogers	Special Effects
Kevin Paul Sheedy	Special Effects
Scot Shinderman	Special Effects
Youngsam Suh	Special Effects
Carlo Volpati	Special Effects
James M. Halty	Stunts
Steven J. Berger	Sound Effects
Victoria Burrows	Casting
Scott Boland	Casting
Rick Kline	Sound Mixer
Gary Rizzo	Sound Mixer
Randy Thom	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

The spooky Radley place in To Kill a Mockingbird has nothing on the dread Nebbercracker abode in Monster House. Creepy. Mean. Scary. And that's just old man Nebbercracker (voiced by Steve Buscemi). The house is far, far worse -- or so 12-year-old DJ has come to fear. DJ becomes convinced that the house across the street is haunted and somehow alive. The audience already knows as much, as toys and other unfortunate objects disappear into the quicksand-like lawn. To investigate, DJ recruits his best friend, Chopper, the stereotypical chatty, fat sidekick and fellow misfit. They are joined by Jenny, an enterprising, quick-witted door-to-door school fundraiser for whom both boys feel the stirrings of a first adolescent crush. The trio can expect no help from adults who are by turns distracted (DJ's parents, who leave him for the weekend), disdainful (DJ's goth babysitter, voiced by Maggie Gyllenhaal), or disbelieving (two ill-fated cops, voiced by Kevin James and Nick Cannon). On the eve of October 31st, they will have to venture inside the house and destroy its vengeful heart before Halloween revelers get the ultimate trick. The film employs the "performance capture" animation pioneered in The Polar Express, digitally translating the movements of human actors into hyper-realistic animation. The effect is much improved this time out, if only in that the characters don't look like soulless children of the damned. Monster House is rated PG, but younger children may be upset by Nebbercracker's apparently fatal heart attack, which leaves the house unattended, and frightened by the house's attacks on those unfortunate enough to get within range of the carpet that emerges from the front door like a ravenous tongue. The climactic kid-versus-house showdown is particularly intense. Monster House is a thrilling relief from the recent spate of computer-animated talking-animal films. Its irresistible premise, as appealing as the prospect of toys coming to life in Toy Story, will evoke shivers of pleasure in anyone who ever imagined the worst about the eerie house down the street.