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Monster House
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*Monster House* is a 2006 American animated horror comedy film directed by Gil Kenan. The screenplay was written by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab, with music composed by Douglas Pipes. Produced by Steve Starkey, Steven Spielberg, and Robert Zemeckis, the film was created by Columbia Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Relativity Media, and ImageMovers. It features voice performances by Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, and Steve Buscemi. The story is set in the 1980s and centers on a haunted house.
The film has a runtime of 91 minutes and was distributed by Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group and Netflix. It received a PG rating and was nominated for the Academy Award, Annie Award, and Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Animated Feature. Audience scores include a 6.7 rating on IMDb and a 68 Metascore. The production had a budget of $75,000,000 and generated $140,175,006 in revenue.
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6.7Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.
Cast
- Mitchel Musso as DJ (voice)
- Sam Lerner as Chowder (voice)
- Spencer Locke as Jenny (voice)
- Steve Buscemi as Nebbercracker (voice)
- Maggie Gyllenhaal as Zee (voice)
- Kevin James as Officer Landers (voice)
Themes
- mission
- monster
- halloween
- haunted house
- neighbor
- curious
- motion capture
- kids
- creepy house
- admiring
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Ratings
IMDb
6.7/10
153,958 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
75%
Metacritic
68/100
- Year
- 2006
- Runtime
- 91 min
- Genres
- Animation, Comedy, Family
- Rated
- PG
- Awards
- Nominated for 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 23 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Gil Kenan
- Screenplay by
- Dan Harmon Rob Schrab Pamela Pettler
- Story by
- Dan Harmon Rob Schrab
- Produced by
- Steve Starkey Jack Rapke
- Starring
- Steve Buscemi Nick Cannon Maggie Gyllenhaal Jon Heder Kevin James Jason Lee Catherine O'Hara Kathleen Turner Fred Willard
- Cinematography
- Xavier Pérez Grobet
- Edited by
- Fabienne Rawley Adam P. Scott
- Music by
- Douglas Pipes
- Production company
- Columbia Pictures Sony Pictures Imageworks Relativity Media ImageMovers Amblin Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- Release dates
- June 15, 2006 ( 2006-06-15 ) ( Seattle International Film Festival ) July 21, 2006 ( 2006-07-21 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 91 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $75 million
- Box office
- $142 million
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Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
Monster House is a 2006 American animated supernatural comedy horror film directed by Gil Kenan in his feature directorial debut, produced by Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke and written by Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler. The film's plot revolves around a neighborhood being terrorized by a sentient haunted house during Halloween and features the voice talents of Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin James, Nick Cannon, Jason Lee, Fred Willard, Jon Heder, Catherine O'Hara and Kathleen Turner.
Produced by Relativity Media and executive producers Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, the human characters were animated using motion-capture animation, which was previously utilized in Zemeckis' previous film, The Polar Express (2004). Monster House was also Sony's first computer-animated film produced by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Relativity Media's first animated film.
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