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. 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. However, all of the little nods and details inMonster Housecome together to build a surprisingly rich story set in a complex world. While this seems like relatively uninteresting information on the surface, Chowder goes on to drop an attention-grabbing tidbit: His mom is at the movies with her personal trainer. DJ has considered abandoning the case after being fed up with the argument, only to be unexpectedly hit by an ambulance by accident which turned out to be hijacked by the still-living Nebbercracker. She grew hating children for mocking and taunting her. Though Monster House is a children's film, it has plenty of content for viewers of all ages to enjoy. When she got frustrated and scared everyone away A slim recreation of Mrs. Nebbercracker. DJ has considered to abandon the case after fed up with the argument, only to unexpectedly hit by an ambulance by accident which turned out to be hijacked by the still-living Mr. Nebbercracker. In the present, this leaves a concrete shell of her body in the basement. She grew hating children for mocking and taunting her. Contents 1 Victims 1.1 Before the Film 1.2 During the Film 2 Deaths 3 Kill Counts Victims Before the Film Constance Nebbercracker - Buried alive in cement when she accidentally fell down a pit during the house's construction. Prior to her death, she wore a dress that was full red. In his notes, he lists the date of each event and what was taken from whoever stepped on Nebbercracker's property. Before Constance uses the trees as impromptu legs, children and their parents are seen, trick-or-treating all across town. As is implied by the film's title, the monster house is, in fact, a living being. Constance hates Jenny because she helped DJ and chowder to stop her evil plan and was the one who cause herself to throw her, DJ and chowder out of the house. Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster. It's my house, and they're HURTING ME! I'll get you!Horace Nebbercracker: Constance, No! Early drafts of the film revealed concepts for Constance's character that were not used due to being deemed too disturbing and to keep the rating: The interior of the house possessed by Constance was warped that it resembled much more interior of human organs. When Mr. Nebbercracker was immediately brought to the hospital, Constance immediately awakened from her years of slumber. "Constance to Mr. Nebbercracker moments before her death. When DJ's babysitter Zee invites her boyfriend Bones over to his house, she introduces him by saying, "He's in a band." 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. The door suddenly opens, revealing it's interior's fractures and shifts into a mouth-like cavern. DJ tries to calm him down, but this does not change Mr. Nebbercracker's mind to scare him further. DJ suspects that there is something nefarious behind Nebbercracker and his creepy house, and his gut feelings are confirmed when the house comes alive and attempts to eat his friend, Chowder. 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. Constance is shown to be rather intelligent. Hi. Typically, animated movies for children aren't celebrated for their expansive lore and world-building. Still, her spirit l. After taking possession of the house, Constance's physical appearance is shaped like a head; the hair is made of black trapezoid roof tiles with the chimney placed on the right side where the heart is, although the location of the furnace is yet unknown. Her wooden skin is a desert sand colour. The house continues to chase down DJ and his best friends until they were near a construction site, where, for the safety of the children, Mr. Nebbercracker throws a stone brick at Constance and stands up against her, revealing his non-child-hating ways in the process. Aware that the old man cannot do that forever, DJ convinces Mr. Nebbercracker to put her out of her misery as this is the better way. Before they could drive away, however, the house makes a groaning sound to lure the two cops closer. 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 and Nebbercracker in 1960 on the day she accidentally died due to her weight. In her monster house form, her vocal effects were provided by Frank Welker. When she was human, Constance was a tall obese woman with short black hair, pale pink cheeks and grey eyes. Just then, the house moves again and taunts Chowder by playing his basketball that marked with Jack-O-Lantern's face, which Chowder perceives that the house would start the real killing spree tonight. Read at your own risk. That night, she possesses the telephone in her house and tries to reach DJ (who only hears furious growls instead of speech). Tragically, the object that Nebbercracker takes is either destroyed or disappears into his house, never to see the light of day again. In the original screenplay, a pair of bullies named Ryan and Cameron harass DJ and Chowder before DJ purposely leads them to be eaten by the house. Upon closer inspection, gamers might just notice something familiar about the gothic side-scroller. In its final form, the house resembles a porcupine made of timber boards, with the shattered yet same windows and a triangular mouth with a longer flange chimney set in the center of its head. Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster. The house's furnace (the heart) burns on its own, and with both the house and lawn under her control, she caused them to emit sad, groaning voices as the ambulance approaches to carry her husband away. While Thou Art Dead only appears in the movie for a brief scene, it did become playable in theMonster House video games. The house roars, prompting them to flee in terror. Her legs are short with seemingly fat arms, giving her poor ability to reach, run or climb. 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. Other than that, enjoy Villains Wiki!!! At that day, the children threw rocks at her, in which she responded by asking Mr. Nebbercracker for help. Later on, when DJ and Chowder sought to investigate the house, Chowder, who doesn't believe strange things that occurred inside the house, starts to fool around on the house's lawn. 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). This causes the house to explode and Constance's spirit to be released, allowing her to spend a peaceful and loving moment with her husband before passing on, signifying that her wrath is finally gone. 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. The relationship may be entirely platonic, but most fitness trainers don't usually provide nighttime sweat sessions at the cinema. And from the sounds of it, the two are clandestinely meeting while her husband is tied up at work. Inside, Constance has a room that functions similar to a human's inner mouth. At The Smell." As the scene reveals, after Nebbercracker and Constance got hitched, Nebbercracker showed her the land plot where the two could build the house they intended to spend the rest of their lives within. She knew that she could lure children into her house by using the possessions that Mr. Nebbercracker had confiscated from the children over the years, and knew that Halloween would be an excellent time for her to attempt to devour children as they would inevitably attempt to go trick-or-treating at the house. As DJ, Jenny, and Chowder make their decoy dummy to feed to the house, they decide to use a pair of sweatpants, some old shoes, a vacuum cleaner, a broom, a letterman jacket, and the monster mask Chowder was wearing earlier in the film. 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. Eventually, Mr. Nebbercracker rescued her from the circus and then married her. DJ's parents Mr. and Mrs. Walters leave town for the weekend for a dentist convention and leaving him in the care of Zee. Isaac: "Trick-or-treat!" Her eyes are windows of different shapes, the left one being square and the right is semi oval. For instance, the house has a. She was a obese woman who did not want to work in a circus freak show. As Constance fights with Chowder, who is controlling the vehicle, DJ is given the dynamite and is told to destroy the house for good. Monster House is a 2006 animated horror/comedy movie directed by Gil Kenan. In the end, all the house's victims are revealed to be alive and well as they crawl out of the house's foundations. Its left tree arm is placed at the end of its tail and its right arm(still intact) is smaller and thinner. She also has extra-large ones to give a powerful bite. Nebbercracker is happy that both she and him are finally free from their torment and proceeds to return all the toys he had taken back to the children of the neighborhood. 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. Yet something is amiss about this sequence, in which the house trudges through the neighborhood, roaring with fury. This is a sly reference to inhalant abuse, often called "huffing," involving everyday items like cleaning supplies, paint, and, allegedly, sometimes strong-scented markers. She then possessed the now-finished house to accompany Mr. Nebbercracker for 45 years. Despite Monster House having a PG rating, the film contains a fair amount of substance use. 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. This, however, nearly caused the house to awaken as the house' main hall turned into a mouth-like cavern before spitting a large amount of green slime water. Monster House Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. She was a human performing as a "circus freak" in a circus until Horace Nebbercracker saved her and married her. Constance shares similarities with Martha from Hotel Transylvania, another animated film from Sony which is also about Halloween and also starred Steve Buscemi. He acts, and is treated, like a younger boy and is often thought to be crazy. He also refuses his wife's request to blow his son a kiss as they drive off. They later decided to have a discussion on Reginald Skull Skullinski at Pizza Freek, where he believes that the possessed house was a monster named Domus Mactabillis (Deadly Home in Latin) or at least that was he believed as he knew about from comic book conventions. Bones throws a label-less bottle at the house, which makes it clear that he was drinking beer before crossing the street. 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. Body Count Victim Killer Cause of Death 1 Constance Nebbercracker Construction Worker Buried in cement 2 Bones . Constance Nebbercracker DJ Walters Chowder Jenny Bennett (all formerly) Type of Hero Tragic False Antagonist Horace Nebbercracker, (simply known as Mr. Nebbercracker, or Nebbercracker to some characters) is the overarching protagonist of Monster House. Even the house's exterior turned into a demonic form while retaining its former appearance. Yes, I'm hurt! The first and most overt comes after Mr. Nebbercracker catches DJ on his lawn trying to retrieve Chowder's new basketball. In terms of backstory, Constance is similar with Onryos in mythology (includes restless souls such as. It's the home of the old man, Horace Nebbercracker, just across the street from DJ's House, and the house possessed by his late wife Constance, after she died from falling to her into it's basement while it was still under construction and having her body poured on by cement, turning it into a living, breathing monster, that attacks anything that dares to come close to it, the house was destroyed at the end of the movie with dynamite. She was a obese woman who did not want to work in a circus freak show. Its overall appearance is more ferocious than its previous state, having several large boards protruding from its jaws. Unfortunately, Officer Landers and Officer Lister interfere, and upon seeing objects that they used to render the house asleep, they wrongfully arrest the kids. Mr. Nebbercracker is happy that both she and him are finally free from their torment and proceeds to return all the toys he had taken back to the children of the neighborhood. There, they also discovered what appeared to be Constance's carriage that DJ opened with a key that he found back when Nebbercracker's body was taken away by medics. She chases DJ, Chowder, and Jenny. As the kids and Mr. Nebbercracker run to the Mayville Luxury Towers' construction site, the house gives chase, lumbering through the neighborhood. Despite her rage, she has also been known to tease and maybe humor people, shown when she taunted Chowder with his ball and when she rolled out her carpet for a dummy created by the children, though it was unclear if she knew what their plan was. Not only is the imagery of the film relatively dark (and even a bit unsettling at times), there are also quite a few lines of dialogue and visual references that are likely to fly over most children's heads. All of his bad deeds toward 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. DJ and Chowder then return to DJ's room with Jenny to continue the investigation. The house continues to chase down DJ and his friends until they were near a construction site, where, for the safety of the children, Nebbercracker throws a stone brick at his house and stands up against Constance, revealing his non-child-hating ways in the process. 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. Though neither of these instances are obvious enough to give the reveal away to the little ones, they do provide a fun tidbit for them to find on subsequent viewings though adults probably notice them the first time. WARNING: The following tab will reveal the numbers of wins and losses for the following character. 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 and Nebbercracker in 1960 on the day she died. 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. Before it was too late, they rush toward her and convince her to go away. Monster House was able to reform in a less neat and more rough looking form, but she still appeared to be fine, despite how she looked, and was possibly even stronger than before, despite her still being made of wood and bricks. Constance Nebbercracker: "Hurt? Mr. Nebbercracker and Constance in 1960 on the day she died. But one Halloween some children decided to torment and laugh at her. DJ was happy he did not make the old man be killed, but only crippled him instead. But as he said so, the children continue to provoke her, prompting her to try and scare them away with an axe Mr. Nebbercracker was holding. Yet there are full-grown deciduous trees in the film's opening shot that stretch to the horizon. Early drafts of the film revealed concepts for Constance's character that were not used due to be deemed too disturbing and to keep the rating: The interior of the house possessed by Constance was warped that it resembled much more interior of human organs. In her first appearance, she wore a green dress with white flowers and heels. 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. 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. 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. The story features a similar monkey doll who brings misfortune and disaster upon whosoever possesses it. Afterwards, 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 Mr. Nebbercracker's house by damaging the lawn. Constance awakens, sensing DJ, Chowder, and Jenny are inside. Her wooden walls are a desert sand color. I'm gonna rip them to bits! Opposites attract, we suppose, even when it comes to bandmates. As one officer accosts the kids, another goes to inspect their creation. Monster House Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. 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. Not only that,she was forced to sleep in a cage by the rest of the circus members. DJ was happy that he didn't cause the old man to be killed, but only crippled him instead. Even the house's exterior turned into a demonic form while retaining its former appearance. They discovered Bones' empty bottle but dismissed it and toss it aside, unaware that the possessed grass on the lawn pulled it underground. Mr. Nebbercracker was at first furious after he had discovered the truth, but eventually relents and tells them both his and Constance's story. The house's furnace burns on its own, and with both the house and lawn under her control, she caused them to emit sad, groaning voices as the ambulance approaches to carry her husband away.
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