History WesternAnimation / MonsterHouse

* AxeCrazy: The house. [[spoiler:Constance also shows signs of this in life, exhibiting violent paranoia as a result of years of abuse by spectators.]]

* CallBack: [[spoiler:When everyone goes to the site where Mr. Nebbercracker's house used to be to retrieve their belongings at the end of the film, how do the main trio knows which item belonged to each kid without asking? It's because DJ has been keeping track of every object Mr. Nebbercracker took from the neighbourhood's kids for what is implied to be a long time, as the audience was shown at in one of the first scenes]].

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The movie focuses on DJ Walters (Creator/MitchelMusso), a boy who is convinced that there's something strange about the house across the street, and believes the house across the street from him is alive. When his parents (Creator/CatherineOHara and Creator/FredWillard) go away for the weekend, he tries convincing his babysitter Zee (Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal) that there is something wrong about the house. She does not believe him, so DJ enlists the help of his best friends Chowder (Creator/SamLerner) and Jenny (Spencer Locke), a girl selling Halloween candy (and who nearly gets eaten by the house). Together, the three of them try to destroy the monster house, along the way figuring out its secret.

The movie focuses on DJ Walters (Creator/MitchelMusso), a boy who is convinced that there's something strange about the house across the street, and believes the house across the street from him is alive. When his parents (Creator/CatherineOHara and Creator/FredWillard) go away for the weekend, he tries convincing his babysitter Zee (Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal) that there is something wrong about the house. She does not believe him, so DJ enlists the help of his best friends Chowder (Creator/SamLerner) and Jenny (Creator/SpencerLocke), a girl selling Halloween candy (and who nearly gets eaten by the house). Together, the three of them try to destroy the monster house, along the way figuring out its secret.

* TheEighties: Though never mentioned, many signs throughout the film pinpoint the film as being set sometime in the mid-to-late 1980s. It's most likely 1987, due to Halloween falling on a Saturday that year, although IMDb lists it as being 1983.

* TheEighties: Though never mentioned, many signs throughout the film pinpoint the film as being set sometime in the mid-to-late 1980s. It's most likely 1987, due to Halloween falling on a Saturday that year.

The movie focuses on DJ Walters, a boy who is convinced that there's something strange about the house across the street, and believes the house across the street from him is alive. When his parents go away for the weekend, he tries convincing his babysitter that there is something wrong about the house. She does not believe him, so DJ enlists the help of his best friends Chowder and Jenny, a girl selling Halloween candy (and who nearly gets eaten by the house). Together, the three of them try to destroy the monster house, along the way figuring out its secret.

* AllCGICartoon: Motion capture animation stylized in stop-motion. The film goes for a distinctly cartoonish look over the realistic attempts of other animated films from Zemeckis' [=ImageMovers=] like ''WesternAnimation/ThePolarExpress'' and ''WesternAnimation/AChristmasCarol2009'', keeping it out of Uncanny Valley.

* StylisticSuck: The animators tried to go for a StopMotion feel when animating this movie, to attempt to avoid UncannyValley feel of pieces the team did before, like ''WesternAnimation/ThePolarExpress''. Despite being from 2006, this makes the aging of the movie seem less apparent to most.

--> '''Jenny:''' How do you know how to drive [[BuffySpeak this thing]]?

* AdultsAreUseless: With the exception of [[spoiler: Horace Nebbercracker (and, to a degree, Skull)]], pretty much every grown up in the film is some combination of stupid and oblivious.

* MilesGloriosus: Downplayed with Chowder. He has a panic attack after accidentally starting an excavator [[HypocriticalHumor after telling DJ to be cool like him]]. He spends a majority of the movie as a snivelling coward. But when push comes to shove, he’s fighting [[spoiler:Constance]] with the same excavator.

* MilesGloriosus: Downplayed with Chowder. He has a panic attack after accidentally starting an excavator [[HypocriticalHumorafter telling DJ to be cool like him]]. He spends a majority of the movie as a snivelling coward. But when push comes to shove, he’s fighting [[spoiler:Constance]] with the same excavator.

* HairTriggerTemper: The house can get angry with minimal provocation. [[spoiler: So could the woman possessing it.]]

* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler:The dynamite that finally finishes off Constance, as well as the construction equipment.]]

* TragicMonster: [[spoiler: The house, once we find out it's possessed by Constance, who died in an accident after a psychological issue set her off.]]

* TheEighties: Though never mentioned, many signs throughout the film pinpoint the film as being set sometime in the mid-to-late 1980's. It's most likely 1987, due to Halloween falling on a Saturday that year.

* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: Both Chowder and DJ attempt this when [[spoiler:the house is chasing after them]], former by closing the gate behind him, claiming to be trying to "slow it down", while the latter pushes a single dumpster in its way.