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Monster House (2006) 6.7
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6.7/10 from 42,955 users
Metascore: 68/100
Reviews: 214 user | 186 critic | 32 from Metacritic.com Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster. Director:Gil Kenan |
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Cast
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| Ryan Newman | ... |
Little Girl
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| Steve Buscemi | ... |
Nebbercracker
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| Mitchel Musso | ... |
DJ
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| Catherine O'Hara | ... |
Mom
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| Fred Willard | ... |
Dad
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| Sam Lerner | ... |
Chowder
(voice)
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| Woody Schultz | ... |
Paramedic #1
(voice)
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Ian McConnel | ... |
Paramedic #2
(voice)
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| Maggie Gyllenhaal | ... |
Zee
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| Jason Lee | ... |
Bones
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| Spencer Locke | ... |
Jenny
(voice)
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| Kevin James | ... |
Officer Landers
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| Nick Cannon | ... |
Officer Lister
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| Jon Heder | ... |
Reginald 'Skull' Skulinski
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| Kathleen Turner | ... |
Constance
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The teenage DJ is observing his neighbor Nebbercracker on the other side of their street in the suburb that destroys tricycles of children that trespass his lawn. When DJ's parents travel on the eve of Halloween and the abusive nanny Zee stays with him, he calls his clumsy best friend Chowder to play basketball. But when the ball falls in Nebbercracker's lawn, the old man has a siege, and soon they find that the house is a monster. Later the boys rescue the smart Jenny from the house and the trio unsuccessfully tries to convince the babysitter, her boyfriend Bones and two police officers that the haunted house is a monster, but nobody believes them. The teenagers ask their video-game addicted acquaintance Skull how to destroy the house, and they disclose its secret on the Halloween night. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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There Goes The Neighborhood. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG for scary images and sequences, thematic elements, some crude humor and brief language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
21 July 2006 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Zemeckis/Spielberg Motion Capture Project See more »Filming Locations:
Culver Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$75,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$921,648 (Australia) (15 September 2006)Gross:
$73,661,010 (USA) (20 October 2006)Company Credits
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2.35 : 1
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Written by Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin,
Budgie and John McGeoch
Performed by Siouxsie and the Banshees
Courtesy of Polydor Ltd. (U.K.)
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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Did You Know?
Trivia
For the German version of the film, Bones, Skull and Chowder have been renamed "Punk", "Freak" and "Ketchup". See more »Goofs
When the kids are in the back of the police car yelling at the police as they approach the house their voices are muffled as if completely enclosed in a car despite the front, driver-side window being open and a metal grate separating the front and back of the police car. See more »Crazy Credits
The little girl that was riding on her tricycle in the beginning of the movie can be heard humming again right at the end of the credits See more »Soundtracks
"Halloween"Written by Siouxsie Sioux, Steven Severin,
Budgie and John McGeoch
Performed by Siouxsie and the Banshees
Courtesy of Polydor Ltd. (U.K.)
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises
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Well, I think if I saw this movie when I was ten years old, I would have been totally scared and could not sleep for weeks. Now it seems time has changed: ten-year-old children are playing horror-video games so probably what was too scary for them in the eighties is just right and fun now. Actually this is just what you could expect from a movie about a monster house: funny, spectacular, sometimes frightening. Quite a well-developed story - even if it is full of clichés, or should I say homage? - with the usual "two boys, one girl" trio as seen in Star Wars or Harry Potter. The animation is strange at first: they seem like rubber dummies, but thanks to the motion capture, their movement and expressions are first rate. While they look like having plastic hair, there is a great development since Polar Express in one field: their eyes are constantly moving - full of life. And the whole movie is just a typical and fun Spielberg-Zemeckis production with elements of Hitchcock. Besides the extraordinarily dark scenes it just feels like those very entertaining Spielberg productions of the eighties.