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It received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, but lost to Happy Feet and Cars, respectively. Nebbercracker is seen only in photos in the GameCube and PlayStation 2 versions of the video game adaptation of the film, and appears briefly in the GameBoy Advance version. What became of Horace Nebbercracker after the incident is unknown, but Chowder tells DJ that he assumes Horace might go on vacation, get some color and maybe meet someone new, perhaps a "nice beach house".
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After some convincing, Jenny, DJ and Chowder decide to get inside the sapient house no matter the circumstances to unveil the mystery on Halloween night. He's a chubby guy with an immature, cowardly streak and less intelligence than DJ, but means well. Chowder visits DJ a day before the main plot kicks in, and he, DJ and Jenny decide to get inside the sapient house no matter the circumstances to unveil the mystery on Halloween night. Nebbercracker, when he was younger, was a member of a demolition squad in the US Army. He immediately fell in love with her, and felt bad for her when he saw that kids were picking on her due to her obesity.
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DJ and Chowder see her approaching Nebbercracker's house and rush to warn her not to go near the dangerous building. When the house fails to do anything, the police officers conclude that the children were just playing a prank on them and leave. Nebbercracker is first seen yelling at a little girl who accidentally ended up on his lawn while riding her tricycle. As he carries the tricycle back to his house, he notices DJ spying on him from his bedroom window.
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When Bones leaves for home, he sees the kite which he lost long ago in the doorway of Nebbercracker's house. Nebbercracker fell in love with Constance when he first met her at the circus. After her death and her spirit takes control of the house he built for her, he pretends to have her attitude towards kids just so they won't harass her, leading to her attacking and/or killing them.
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'Monster House' has good story to go with scares.
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For a brief moment, they are distracted by a beautiful girl named Jenny who, much to their horror, approaches the house. Just then, Constance, who already set her sights on Jenny, possesses the porch causing the concrete slabs below her to rise and led her to the houses mouth, only to be failed by Zee and the boys' interference. DJ and Chowder then return to DJ’s room with Jenny to continue the investigation. They later witness a dog who approaches the lawn, only to be eaten by the house. Witnessing this, they realise that the house only moved when the unsuspecting victim approached, and Jenny decided to call the police As they were waiting, the trio imagines what would happen if many children came to that house due to tonight being Halloween.
Here, the house expresses a degree of remorse over the carnage that it has done, and Nebbercracker said that he has done the best for it. But now, her suffering must be over as he reveals the dynamite to blow up the house that has changed her. The house was shocked by this and started to get furious, but Nebbercracker argued, trying to blow the house up with the dynamite, and tried to tell the house that it was the best for it. Suddenly, the house disarmed him and ultimately lost its ability to reason, as it succumbed to its murderous instinct to eat him.
Believing a hidden truth to the sapient house, DJ convinces his best friend Chowder and new friend Jenny to explore inside it no matter the circumstances to unveil the mystery on Halloween night. When Zee's boyfriend Bones later pays a visit, he recalls the time Nebbercracker stole his kite, as well as relating rumors of him cannibalizing his wife. After Zee kicks him out, Bones notices his kite in the front door of Nebbercracker's house, tries to retrieve it and is abducted. And Chowder later investigate and learn that the house is possessed by a poltergeist. On Halloween, they save Jennifer "Jenny" Bennett, who is selling candy, from the house.
“Monster House” is unpretentious, smartly written (by Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler) and a lot of fun. One of the spooky archetypes of childhood imagination — the dark, mysterious house across the street — is literally brought to life in “Monster House,” a marvelously creepy animated feature directed by Gil Kenan. The day before Halloween, DJ Walters' parents go off to a convention, leaving him in the care of a babysitter named Elizabeth, who prefers to be called Zee. Zee has no interest in looking after DJ, preferring instead to spend time with her boyfriend Bones. Two cops who appear to DJ, Chowder and Jenny when they call the police to help deal with the house. They, much like other people, do not appear to believe the boys at all, but are simply doing their job to make sure they don't get hurt.
Aware that the old man cannot do that forever, DJ convinces Nebbercracker to put her out of her misery as this is the better way. Therefore, Constance has suffered too long and despite his benevolent intentions to keep the children away from the house, it won't improve either of their lives, which didn't help by her meant to pass on to the afterlife long ago. Having overheard the conversation and witnessing her husband holding another's hand, Constance becomes consumed with rage and goes berserk and tears the house free from its foundations and begins to chase her husband and the kids via arms/feet made of trees on the property. The four of them run in terror, going down an alleyway where Nebbercracker is forced to stay behind due to his old age preventing him from keeping up and encouraging the kids to go on without him. The house continues to chase down DJ and his friends until they were near a construction site, where, for the safety of the children, Nebbercracker throws a stone brick at his house and stands up against Constance, revealing his non-child-hating ways in the process. The kids then resume the investigation when suddenly, the floor below them opened, sending them to the basement where Nebbercracker kept the stolen toys from the children.
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Despite how he appeared to the neighborhood in present time, Nebbercracker does love children, realizing none of them had malicious intent, instead having fun on Halloween. To this end, he even protected some children from his wife who tried attacking them with an axe, however, this ended up costing the life of his wife. Whilst managing to calm the house down, Nebbercracker laments over the fact that he has failed to keep his wife's wrath from hurting others and turning her into what she is now a true monster.
The chimney is set on the center of her head like a bomb, she keeps her first tree arm as the left arm, her right arm is now made of jagged wood and her right tree arm are now located at the bottom of her body as a tail. It also represents, to the technology nerds in the audience, an interesting refinement of animation techniques. Like Robert Zemeckis’s “Polar Express,” “Monster House” (for which Mr. Zemeckis served as an executive producer) uses the digitally captured movements of real actors rather than computer-generated algorithms as the basis for its animated images. The postures and gestures of DJ (Mitchell Musso) and his pals — a pudgy fellow named Chowder (Sam Lerner) and a preppy redhead named Jenny (Spencer Locke) — have an authentically loose and antic look. They seem like real kids, rather than like super-cute, big-headed cartoon moppets.
When she was human, Constance was a tall obese woman with short black hair, pale pink cheeks and grey eyes. In her first appearance, she wore a green dress with white flowers and heels. Prior to her death, she wore a dress that was full red and still kept her pink stockings and black heels. Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster. After DJ successfully destroyed the house, he spent his final moments with Constance's spirit who was now free from the house, and thanked him saying that "for 45 years, we've been trapped for 45 years, and now we're free!". That Halloween night, instead of candy, he handed out items he previously confiscated as his apology.
Being trapped within the house for years, Constance's anger and frustration grow, leading to destructive outbursts aimed at anyone who comes near the property. Nebbercracker, deeply concerned about the destructive and dangerous nature of Constance, takes it upon himself to protect their community by confining her within their house. The complex relationship between Nebbercracker and Constance can be described as a mix of love, fear, and tragedy. While they are married and have a history together, their relationship goes through profound challenges. Some of the scary parts may be too intense for very young or very sensitive children. A small dog who has the misfortune of getting eaten by the Monster House the moment it sets foot on its lawn.
This saddens the house and provides Nebbercracker an opportunity to end his wife's suffering using a stick of dynamite. The house, however, does not take this well and grabs Nebbercracker to eat him for this apparent betrayal before DJ, Chowder, and Jenny arrive just in time with an excavator, which proves effective against the house. As the house fights with Chowder, who is controlling the vehicle, DJ is given the dynamite and is told to destroy the house for good. That night, she possesses the telephone in her house (off-screen) and calls DJ through the telephone. Thinking that it may be a trick, he tries to call the house itself, only for no one to answer him.
As the movie ends, all the people who had been eaten by the house come out of its basement. Monster House is a 2006 American animated supernatural horror comedy film[3] directed by Gil Kenan in his directorial debut and written by Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler. The plot revolves around a neighborhood being terrorized by a sentient haunted house during Halloween.
Outside the house, the children are amazed to see Mr. Nebbercracker alive, returning from hospital with his arm in a sling. Nebbercracker tells them that the house is possessed by the spirit of the obese woman that they found in the basement, his late wife Constance, known as Constance the Giantess. Nebbercracker tells them that, against her wishes, Constance used to work in a circus sideshow. One Halloween, while she was working on the house, some children tormented Constance because of her size.
