Monster House (film)

Monster House
Film poster showing three children standing behind and looking at the haunted house. The tagline "There goes the neighborhood." appears at the top of the poster, and the title and the names of the cast and crew appears at the bottom of the poster.
Theatrical release poster
Directed byGil Kenan
Screenplay by
Story by
  • Dan Harmon
  • Rob Schrab
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyXavier Perez Grobet
Edited by
  • Fabienne Rawley
  • Adam P. Scott
Music byDouglas Pipes
Production
companies
Distributed bySony Pictures Releasing
Release dates
Running time
91 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$75 million[2]
Box office$141.9 million[2]

Monster House is a 2006 American animated supernatural horror comedy film[3] directed by Gil Kenan in his directorial debut, from a screenplay written by Pamela Pettler and the writing team of Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab. The plot revolves around a neighborhood being terrorized by a sentient haunted house during Halloween. 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.

Produced by Columbia Pictures, 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' The Polar Express (2004). It was also Sony's first computer-animated film produced by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Relativity's first animated film.[4]

Monster House was released theatrically by Sony Pictures Releasing on July 21, 2006. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $142 million worldwide against a $75 million budget. 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.

  1. ^ "Monster House (PG)". BBFC. June 16, 2006. Retrieved August 17, 2024.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference BOM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Monster House (2006) - Gil Kenan | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie". Archived from the original on May 27, 2022. Retrieved May 27, 2022 – via www.allmovie.com.
  4. ^ McCarthy, Todd (July 4, 2006). "Review: 'Monster House'". Variety. Archived from the original on August 26, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2017.