However, his intentions were far less noble: Mr. Walters spied on "the lovely Jensen twins." They discovered Bones' empty bottle but dismissed it and toss it aside, unaware that the possessed grass on the lawn pulled it underground. She is also the arch-nemesis of DJ, Jenny and Chowder. Her eyes are windows of different shapes, her left eye is square and her right eye is arch. Mr. Nebbercracker was at first furious after he had discovered the truth, but eventually relents and tells them both his and Constance's story. Unmoored from her foundations, Constance is tired of letting her prey come to her, and goes after her husband and the kids who've turned him against her. Upon closer inspection, gamers might just notice something familiar about the gothic side-scroller. Villains who aren't revealed to be evil at first, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Constance going after DJ, Chowder, and Jenny. I'm gonna rip them to bits. Mr. Nebbercracker then lashed out to the trio to leave, but his wrath quickly changes into worries as he realized that children would be approaching his house. As is implied by the film's title, the monster house is, in fact, a living being. When DJ's parents travel on the eve of Halloween and the abusive babysitter Zee stays with . Just then, Constance, whoalready set her sights on Jenny, possesses the porch, making the planks below her to rise and lead her to her mouth, only to be thwarted by Zee and the boys' interference. They try to convince the babysitter, the police, and some weirdo named Skull. They reverently recall he once played on a single quarter for four days straight, surviving on chocolate milk and wearing an adult diaper. Unfortunately, Officers Lester and Landers interfere and upon seeing objects that they used to render the house asleep, they wrongfully arrest the kids. However, the officers were not the sole target as it had the trees to grab the police car and devouring it into its mouth inside along with the children. Terrors that they endured caused Chowder and DJ to argue with each other with Jenny breaking up their fight. Though Monster House is a children's film, it has plenty of content for viewers of all ages to enjoy. When she was human, Constance was a tall obese woman with short black hair, pale pink cheeks and grey eyes. Constance is shown to be rather intelligent. When Chowder explores the house and stumbles upon a large mirror that used to be Constance's, Constance's spirit appeared in the mirror and attacked him. The original Castlevania game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, and has the player take on the role of a skilled vampire hunter making his way through Dracula's castle. However, DJ's spying operation goes deeper than snapshots he takes meticulous notes on his elderly neighbor's movements. Thanks to Jenny's quick actions in pulling the house's lamp, the possessed house ended up vomitting them to the outside, along with the contraptions that they supposedly used to make it sleep. Due to nature of her death and misery she has gone through, Constance is trapped in a hateful and destructive state: When others come near her, she will often attack them, though she may wait to a certain extent. At that day, the children threw rocks at her, in which she responded by asking Mr. Nebbercracker for help. Chowder looks behind, where the house became more deformed that it previously was before returning back to normal. This celebration is short-lived, however, as Constance's control over the house is still intact and she manages to reform it from its broken remains, resulting in a more horrific and monstrous form that proceeds to devour the excavator before chasing Chowder. They manage to formulate a plan where Chowder will lure the house under a crane so the two can drop the stick of dynamite down its chimney which leads to the heart. Constance was a tall obese woman with short black hair, pale pink cheeks, and grey eyes. This is however a great mistake; due to his elderly age, he forgot that his body could no longer endure the boy's weight and he had a heart attack at the same time. But one Halloween some children decided to torment and laugh at her. Hopefully, Mayville's schools have decent health classes that will eventually set Chowder straight. While DJ's spying habit is framed as a bit odd, taking a closer look at his dedication to keeping tabs on his neighbor through adult eyes is quite troubling. Playing the game dispels any doubts about the game's similarities toCastlevania, as the gameplay matches that of the renowned video game classic exactly. She then possessed the now-finished house to accompany Mr. Nebbercracker for 45 years. She married Mr. Nebbercracker, but died one Halloween. Hetold her they were merely joking because it is Halloween, but Constance responds by saying it is her house and they are hurting it. After getting scared by Jenny, Chowder sees a toy monkey with clapping cymbals and squirts it, thinking that the house is trying to get him. As such, it is filled with organs analogous to those of the human body. So, they schemed a plan to make a dummy full of cold medicine, hoping that the drugs were enough to render the house sleeping. His bones cracked in the process, causing him to fall unconscious on DJ's body. Even the house's exterior turned into a demonic form while retaining its former appearance. Inside, Constance has a room that functions similar to a human's inner mouth. When Constance sees this, she proceeds to possess his kite within the basement (the stomach) and uses it to lure Bones into the house. Constance was born in 1931 and died in 1960, meaningshe was 29 years old when she died. The house had the slinkies snatch Chowder before did the same on the pipes that snatch Jenny and had the wooden stairs to attack DJ, whom barely escaped back to the hall that turned into a mouth cavity, with his friends nearly devoured. When discussing the functionality of the chandelier-uvula, Chowder has a sudden realization. She was a obese woman who did not want to work in a circus freak show. DJ's friend Chowder loses his basketball on Mr. Nebbercracker's lawn. Whilst managing to calm the house down, Nebbercracker laments over the fact that he has failed to keep his wife's wrath from hurting others and turning her into what she is now a true monster. Get away from my house! As soon as DJ's parents are gone, Zee takes off her cardigan to reveal a shirt that says "Skull x Bones." As the medics put Nebbercracker's body on a stretcher, she possesses the grass on the lawn and tries to prevent them from leaving albeit failed, while her spirit, from the house's windows (the eyes), glares at unsuspecting DJ and Chowder, causing it to crack as they leave. Both the boys are horrified by this, believing that Nebbercracker had died. Tragically, the object that Nebbercracker takes is either destroyed or disappears into his house, never to see the light of day again. She grew hating children for mocking and taunting her. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Destroy DJ, Chowder, and Jenny.Resume her killing spree.Devour all of the children trespassers on Halloween (all failed). When awakened or disturbed, her mouth shows small wooden plank-like teeth framed by the door. That night, she possesses the telephone in her house (off-screen) and calls DJ through the telephone. The story features a similar monkey doll who brings misfortune and disaster upon whosoever possesses it. That night, she possesses the telephone in her house (off-screen) and calls DJ through telephone. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! For instance, the house has a. Another commonality is the chandelier hanging within the entryway, which serves as the uvula, or, as Jenny's refers to it, "nature's emergency exit.". The house then pick them one by one after spotting the kids before they find the place to hide. She married Mr. Nebbercracker, but died one Halloween. DJ tries to calm him down, but this does not change Mr. Nebbercracker's mind to scare him further. In his nightmare, the shadow of the house creeps into DJ's bedroom, and the hand of a heavyset woman extends upward to reach for him as he wakes up. Jenny Bennett is the tritagonist of Monster House. Read at your own risk. They are unaware that they have unleashed terror on their housing complex. There are no screams, no people running indoors, no one gaping in awe at a mobile haunted house. She was a obese woman who did not want to work in a circus freak show. Stephen King and horror go hand-in-hand. Afterward, while DJ sneaks away, Bones (who had lost his kite when he was 10 years old) expresses his anger and sadness over his stolen kite on Nebbercracker's house by damaging the lawn. Despite being labelled as a circus freak, Constance is shown to be rather intelligent. For example, there is a surprising link between two side characters that may not be apparent to those watching the movie for the first time and definitely not to kids in the audience. Having overheard the conversation, Constance goes berserk and tears the house free from its foundations and begins to chase the children and her husband through arms / feet made of trees on the property. It seems that Chowder has mixed up the uvula, the fleshy projection dangling at the back of the human throat, with a private part of the female anatomy. Her eyes can glow depending on her state of mind. The door suddenly opens, revealing it's interior's fractures and shifts into a mouth-like cavern. When Mr. Nebbercracker was immediately brought to the hospital, Constance immediately awakened from her years of slumber. Thanks to Jenny's quick actions in pulling the house's lamp, the possessed house ended up vomiting them to the outside, along with the contraptions that they supposedly used to make it sleep. A little girl named Eliza rides her tricycle around the neighborhood, singing along, but she hits the lawn and as she tries to get out, Horace Nebbercracker snaps and takes the tricycle and removes the wheel to tempt her to go away. DJ and Chowder then return to DJ's room with Jenny to continue the investigation. When consumed by rage, the house has two trees linked to its head that are its chimney emitting a red glow and smoke, indicating its heart is racing. It's Halloween." For instance, the house has a functioning heart secured within its furnace. Therefore, Constance has been suffered too long and in spite of his benevolent intentions to keep the children away from the house, it will not improve either of their lives. Therefore, Constance has suffered too long and despite his benevolent intentions to keep the children away from the house, it won't improve either of their lives Having overheard the conversation and witnessing her husband holding another's hand, Constance becomes consumed with rage and goes berserk and tears the house free from its foundations and begins to chase her husband and the kids via arms/feet made of trees on the property. When DJ's Nanny Zee's boyfriend Bones goes over to the house and starts kicking its grass, he gets swallowed by the house. As Constance fights with Chowder, who is controlling the vehicle, DJ is given the dynamite and is told to destroy the house for good. It's pretty fair to say Mr. Walters is probably not the best influence on his child, and, as adults will notice, kind of a messed up person in general. Some content even verges on innuendo, and seems to be explicitly aimed at older audiences. When they entered it, they discovered Constance's corpse that was covered by cement layer. "Constance to Mr. Nebbercracker moments before her death. After Mrs. Walters admonishes DJ for spying on their elderly neighbor, Mr. Walters tries to relate to his son, admitting to doing a bit of spying himself at DJ's age. Thou Art Dead features an axe-wielding hero fighting monsters in classic 8-bit style. DJ convinces his friends to keep up with their search for the house's furnace. Her legs are short with seemingly fat arms, giving her poor ability to reach, run or climb. Yet there are full-grown deciduous trees in the film's opening shot that stretch to the horizon. The children head over to a local arcade and seek out the wisdom of Skull, a video game whiz who is engaged in an intense session of playing an arcade game entitled Thou Art Dead. Unfortunately, this celebration is short-lived as Constance's control over the house is still intact and she manages to reform it from its broken remains, resulting in a more horrific and monstrous form that proceeds to devour the excavator before chasing Chowder. A fact which related to Horace's former occupation as the member of demolition squad which Constance knew pretty well but easily overlooked by audience that they left baffled by how DJ managed to destroy the house she possessed with a dynamite was a stash of explosives belonged to her husband which he apparently stored in a part of the house the kids had no chance to explore (likely somewhere near a box of dynamite Chowder stumbled upon). Thinking that it may be a trick, he tries to call the house itself, only for no one to answer him. 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! I'll get you!Horace Nebbercracker: Constance, No! Constance and Nebbercracker in 1960 on the day she accidentally died due to her weight. Monster House Animation 2006 1 hr 30 min English audio PG CC Buy or rent Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster, and decide that. This is Thesecret1070. Shortly after Nebbercracker was taken away by the ambulance, the crack on one of the house's windows crosses DJ's neck, symbolizing her intent to kill DJ. It all starts at the beginning of the film, with a shot of a little girl riding her tricycle onto Mr. Nebbercracker's lawn. A plausible explanation is they happened to be outside hearing distance and that many of them are occupied by Halloween preparations somewhere else. Unaware that this was a trap, Bones approaches the kite, only to have it coil around him and the house quickly devours him. Despite being killed, her soul became the vengeful spirit both due to her rage and unwillingness to leave her husband. They later witness a dog who approaches the lawn, only to be eaten by the house. But eagle-eyed viewers of a certain age may notice that the dummy bears a striking resemblance to a background character in the 2001 cult horror film Donnie Darko. Monster House Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. Around her dead body, they found some flowers and photos that people would normally place on the grave of their loved ones. This article is about Nebbercracker's House as a location, for the article about it as the main antagonist of the film, see Constance Nebbercracker. He then approaches his house which becomes possessed again but somewhat became gentle to him. Constance was a tall obese woman with short black hair, pale pink cheeks, and grey eyes. Though he only appears for a couple minutes of screen time, one of the most off-kilter characters in Monster House is Mr. Walters, DJ's father. The components gathered up for this stunt seem innocuous. Bones throws a label-less bottle at the house, which makes it clear that he was drinking beer before crossing the street. The house had the slinkies snatch Chowder before doing the same on the pipes (organs) that snatch Jenny and had the wooden stairs attack DJ, who barely escaped back to the hall that turned into a mouth cavity, with his friends nearly devoured. Officer Landers notices that something seems not right as the other one suddenly driven away with the tree's roots. As is implied by the film's title, the monster house is, in fact, a living being. Though the activities mentioned don't explicitly point to anything scandalous going on in Chowder's house, the implicit meaning couldn't be more apparent to adults watching Monster House. Having become part of the foundation, she possessed and physically became the house, her anger unyielding even after all these years. Eventually, Mr. Nebbercracker rescued her from the circus and then married her. However, it's accidentally cracked open, revealing the skeleton underneath it. Just then, Constance grabs her husband with the intentions of killing him for this apparent betrayal before DJ, Chowder, and Jenny arrive just in time with an excavator, which proves effective against the house. When DJ has a nightmare about the house, the arm that reaches out from the doorway is visibly overweight, which foreshadows that the house was indeed possessed by Constance. Constance's victims were originally supposed to be dead, but the creators decided that they should keep them alive. As Monster Houseborrows heavily from frightful fare of the '80s, a mighty decade for the prolific author, a few references to the King of Horror feel especially right at home. Witnessing this, they realise that the house only moved when the unsuspecting victim approached, and Jenny decided to call the police As they were waiting, the trio imagines what would happen if many children came to that house due to tonight being Halloween. All of his bad deeds on the children were merely ruse to keep them away from his wife's wrathful spirit after the latter's accidental murder by bullies and because of it, he was forced to become a child hater so Constance, now as the possessed house and wrathful spirit, won't be able to destroy and consume everything on her path. By this point, DJ learned that all this time, the house was possessed by Constance's restless spirit and they didn't know that it became a monster and Against his friends' protests, DJ tries to talk some sense with Nebbercracker about the truth behind his wrathful and suspicious behavior. The kids then resume the investigation where suddenly, the floor below them opened, sending them to the basement where Nebbercracker kept the confiscated toys from children. Though Constance was happy with her later life, her happiness proved short-lived after she fell to her death. Get away from my house! Furthermore, she didn't attempt to devour the cops that DJ, Jenny, and Chowder had called to the scene until she was certain that they wouldn't be able to call for assistance. Not much is known about Constance's backstory, aside from the fact that she is a depressed circus freak show member that always got made fun of by children due to her extreme obesity. WARNING: The following tab will reveal the numbers of wins and losses for the following character. Before they could drive away, the house groans on them, luring both the police officers closer. This also explained why her rage escalated further upon seeing her husband made up his mind to put her out of her misery before the kids eventually interfered and did him a favor instead. Officer Lester taunts the tree, which suddenly, prompt it to move and grab his leg. However, this nearly made the house awaken as the house' main hall turned into a mouth-like cavern before spitting a large amount of water. Just then, the house moves again and taunts Chowder by playing his basketball that is marked with Jack-O-Lantern's face, which Chowder perceives that the house would start the real killing spree tonight. Its overall appearance is more ferocious than its previous state, having several large boards protruding from its jaws. 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. After taking possession of the house, Constance's physical appearance is comprised of the different parts of the structure. It's implied that he maintains a ledger of these confiscated items, leading him to conclude that Mr. Nebbercracker has taken 49 baseballs to date. The kids then resume the investigation when suddenly, the floor below them opened, sending them to the basement where Nebbercracker kept the stolen toys from the children. There's not a lot of background information given on the town of Mayville until Mr. Nebbercracker's flashback takes place. Nebbercracker then lashed out to the trio to leave, but his wrath quickly changes into worry as he realised that it was Halloween and kids would be approaching his house. 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. Monster House is a 2006 American computer-animated haunted house film [3] 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. Mr. Nebbercracker:: "Now, now, they're-they're just kids, dear. He also refuses his wife's request to blow his son a kiss as they drive off. Now, all three of them need to try and stop the house and the only way by doing that is to go inside the house. Judging from her photos that DJ and Jennyfound in her house, it was shown that her obesity was due to her love of food. Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster. Constance furiously believes that DJ is trying to take Nebbercracker away from her. As the trio went home, DJ believes that the possession on the house was started from when the furnace inside the house was set alight, implies that the furnace was the house's heart.