Monster House (2006)
Director:
Gil Kenan
Tagline:
« There Goes The Neighborhood. »
Actors:
Little Girl
Nebbercracker
Mom
Dad
Rating:
(156’936 votes)
(156’936 votes)
Quotes:
« Chowder: My dad is at the pharmacy and my mom is at the movies with her personal trainer.
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« Chowder: I paid 28 dollars for that ball! I raked ten yards and ask my mom for a dollar 26 times!
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« Chowder: What? I thought if I shot the heart, that…
»
« Jenny: That's not the heart.
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« Chowder: Then what *is* it?
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« Jenny: Well, if those are the teeth and that's the tongue, then that must be the uvula.
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« Chowder: Oh. So it's a *girl* house.
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« Jenny: [looks at him] *What*? No! It stimulates the gag reflex. *Everyone* has a uvula.
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« Chowder: Not *me*.
»
Trailer:
Monster House
Runtime:91 minutes
Plots:
Three teens discover that their neighbor’s house is really a living, breathing, scary monster.
13-year-old DJ is observing his neighbor Nebbercracker on the other side of the 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 babysitter 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 heart attack, 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.
Little DJ has suspicions about the house across the street and the cranky old man who lives there. When the old man has a heart attack and is carried away by an ambulance, DJ thinks the danger is over. Unfortunately, as he, his friend Chowder, and a candy-selling prep-school girl named Jenny discover, the house itself has plans–plans that include eating all the kids who’ll be trick-or-treating that Halloween night!
