They find all the stolen toys, and a shrine to Nebbercracker's wife, Constance the Giantess, whose skeleton is encased in cement. Separated from the officers, who seem to have vanished, the children explore the sleeping house's basement. Landers and Lister arrive and discover the stolen medicine as they try to arrest the children, the house eats them, the children, the dummy, and the squad car. They offer the dummy to the house to eat, hoping to put the house to sleep so they can find its "heart". Concluding Nebbercracker has died and possessed the house, the children construct a dummy child, filling it with cough syrup they stole from Chowder's parents' pharmacy. The trio consults supernatural expert Reginald "Skull" Skulinski, who speculates the house must be a rare monster created by the merging of a human ghost and a man-made object, only unbound when its heart is destroyed. Jenny calls police officers Landers and Lister, but the house stays quiet when the officers arrive, and they dismiss the report. DJ and Chowder are attacked by the house when they investigate the next day, they save young Jenny Bennett, who is selling Halloween candy, from being eaten by the house. After Zee throws him out, Bones notices his kite on Nebbercracker's porch, tries to retrieve it, and is devoured by the house. Bones also relates rumors that Nebbercracker ate his wife. He reveals that, many years ago, Nebbercracker stole his kite. Zee's inebriated boyfriend Bones arrives. He appears to suffer a heart attack and is taken away by an ambulance. Later, DJ's friend Chowder loses a basketball in Nebbercracker's lawn the boys try to retrieve it, but Nebbercracker stops them. The same day, DJ's parents leave for a convention, placing him in the care of teenage babysitter Zee. DJ has documented many similar incidents at the Nebbercracker house, which is across the street from his own. On October 30, 1983, 12-year-old DJ Walters witnesses elderly Horace Nebbercracker confiscating a little girl's tricycle and scaring her away from his house. Monster House received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but lost to Happy Feet. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $142 million worldwide against a $75 million budget. Produced by Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers, Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment (marking their first theatrically-released fully animated film since Balto) and Relativity Media (their first animated film), the film was released theatrically by Columbia Pictures on July 21, 2006. It was Sony's first computer animated film produced by Sony Pictures Imageworks. The film features the voices 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, as well as human characters being animated using live action motion capture animation, which was previously used in The Polar Express (2004). Monster House is a 2006 American computer-animated horror film directed by Gil Kenan in his directorial debut and written by Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler, about a neighborhood being terrorized by a sentient haunted house during Halloween.
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