Monster House: She Died, But She Didn't Leave (HALLOWEEN KIDS MOVIE SCENE) 

“The lady as big as a house” foreshadows her eventual fate

I don't blame her because she was severely abused and he tried to take her away from it.. the damage was done to her mind and personality..

Constance just hated being mistreated and Nebbercracker was only trying to protect people from her so she would not attack anyone who comes near her.

As I grew older, I come to really empathise with Constance and her “overreaction” to them throwing stones at her house. Like yeah, getting triggered at an egg thrown at her because she used to work as a circus freak? Valid. But saying that attacking the house was hurting HER? This woman who is OVER THE MOON just to have a house in the middle of butt-fuck desert nowhere, she finally had her safe space, her ticket to happiness after who knows how long she was in the circus. With the sweetest husband that seemed to be building the house all by himself since he’s too poor to buy anywhere else. And it was gonna be luxurious too (for the time maybe). Two storeys? Basement? She was banking EVERYTHING on this life and was so over-protective to not jeopardise it. When you’ve had nothing but bad in your life and you’re finally given a good thing, you hold onto it tight. Usually too tight. The house was her symbol for a new life and to attack it with even something as insignificant as a thrown pebble was to attack her. Did she ever even HAVE a home before Nebbercracker?

That plot twist took me by surprise when I first saw the movie

The scary part is, if the fall didn't kill her, the cement certainly did. While it probably doesn't dry up that quickly, it still would've suffocated her, and the fall likely rendered her either dazed and immobile or completely unconscious, the former being a much worse fate. Nebbercracker never would have been able to save her regardless due to being knocked to the ground. I also didn't see a ladder or stairway to the basement, so reaching her in time would be a slim chance at best.

This scene used to made me really sad as a kid, Constance basically did nothing wrong yet got treated like an animal and dying right before starting a new live with someone who truly cared for her, no wonder Nebbercracker hated kids so much...Bullies are just the worst and people should realize age is not an excuse.

"So I finished the house... she would've wanted that... she died, but she didn't leave... and that night, the one night of EVERY year... I-I had to take precautions... I had to... I had to" The way Nebbercracker delivers those first two lines, poor guy sounds absolutely broken, before his voice shifts to a more haunting and hopeless tone, completely taken over by fear of what his house/wife might do to the kids who tresspass. Steve Buscemi did an excellent job portraying Nebbercracker as a sympathetic old man who has to play the role of that scary and angry old geezer, all to keep kids safe from his wife's vengeful wrath, and the mystery behind the house is just so good, also the fact Chowder unintentionally got it right that the house was 'a girl house' but it's played for laughs, absolute brilliant foreshadowing.

I love this movie. This is my favorite scene. It teaches and demonstrates that love has no boundaries. And that appearance isn't everything.

Fun fact: Constance is voiced by Kathleen Turner who did Jessica Rabbit.

I love how instead of just breaking her out of the cage and sitting in the bed of the truck he decided to just hitch her to the back

When she died her spirit possessed the house, the only way to free her spirit was to destroy the house.

I can’t imagine how traumatized those children were when they saw her fall to her death

Constance death was just a accident and I feel bad and sorry 😢 for them but still I hope they get to be happy 😊 and find happiness and peace.

Honestly what really gets me is the fact younger me never realized how fuked up it was that she was in a cage. Younger me was just "oh thats nice that he saved her," but now it's just insane that a human was kept in an animal cage just becausethey are overweight.

Man, Mr. Nebbercracker was such a kind man to Constance.

This movie is really unexpectedly solid. It has some of the most natural dialogue I've ever heard in an animated movie, and real emotional chops. Nebbercracker and Constance's backstory is so heartbreaking.

Poor Nebbercracker and his wife and Poor DJ too.

If you pay attention, at 2:55 you can see the kid wearing the Native American feather thing is what appears to be a young Bones. Didn't notice that until just now. I could be overthinking it. Great movie!

3:23 the newspaper getting yeeted back at the paper boy always gets me! 😂😂😂

2:11 that was most like the best moment of her life, even tho it was so little

The real monster isn’t Constance, but Mr. Nebbercracker’s grief and refusal to accept his wife’s death

This movie did a good job no one is purely a villain. Not the babysitter even though she’s a jerk she is still shown to be responsible. Not bones as he too had a really bitter childhood because of nebberctacker Not nebbercracker cause the whole time he’s just been playing the role of a bitter old grump in order to protect the kids on the street. Not even Constance as she too is a victim of abuse who just doesn’t want to let go of that house which is the last thing tying her to any amount of happiness.

thats sad that people mocking Nebbercracker on his right in the circus they so rude 😭

I feel bad for Constance nebbcraker wife

Okay the scene was really sad but the house suddenly throwing the newspaper back at the newspaper boy making him fall was hilarious

3:05 How Constance became the Monster House

From Mr. Nebbercracker's past, those kids wanna stop pestering around? Now go away and leave Constance's property.

0:47 you were in my WIFE?!?!! 😂😂 Also, that foundation is WAY too deep lol

This is NOT a kids movie. This gave me nightmare's as a kid.

Childhood memory of Having pure horror watching this as a kid.

This movie absolutely horrified me when I was young. I had nightmares for days

Those mistreating her were the actual devils💔

I would rather be nice to her I wouldn’t blame constance for having a bad life She has been suffering for being abused I know Horace has a crush on Constance People are just monsters and horrible to that poor woman 😢😢😢😢 😡❤️ The scene makes me cry when I see it everything when I watch monster house 😢

She doesn’t deserve the hate she gets

This is a truly tragic story: Constance was treated horribly and Nebbercracker tried to help her. All Constance wanted was to live a peaceful life with her husband.

For a time, every halloween I had a ritual. Goosebumps marathons would run on Cartoon Network every halloween night. And there was two halloween movies that for a time would come on two channels at specific time of days. One of them was Monster House. God that movie was great. When I stopped Trick or Treating in Junior High when I was 12 or 13 years old watching those shows and alternating channels at specific times was my ritual. God to be young again.

You know, if Constance were real, she'd be a _perfect_ match for Nick Godejohn, AKA, Victor the 500-year-old vampire

I wish we got to see the reactions of those two boys after Constance fell and was covered in cement. Imagine that being the first time Mr. Nebbercracker lashing out at kids.

When i was a kid a cried when both of them started dancing as a goodbye 😢

Bros wife literally died under the house and he fr went “Damn that sucks” *continues building sadly* Like wtf 😭

This family Halloween animated film really shows this part taking a sad and dark turn. We feel sorry for her. It really reminds me where Kayako from The Grudge 2 (released that same year) had a bad life because of her mother. As a child, her mother takes out the dark spirits from people and feed it to her during a ritual, thus making her living a sad and abusive life, and later becoming a vengeful ghost, after her husband killed her from jealousy. That's what the legend here says... "That's where the curse started." It's the curse.

Holy shit, I remember this movie from years ago and seeing this clip I realize Nebbercracker was voiced by Steve Buscemi. Awesome! Also, I like how there aren't really details surrounding the memory itself, just like a real memory.

I felt bad for Constance she deserves better

I think they should make a live action movie of monster house, it would be like a really awesome horror movie

How did i not recognize Steve's voice

That traumatized me as a kid. Looking back, wtf.

Amazing Constance was voice by the same woman who voiced Jessica Rabbit.

This was the first movie I watched in the theater, and since then, I have had no memories of it. Watching it here again gives me the nostalgic feeling and I am just so happy

Has anyone ever noticed Chowder looks like Chad from Friday the 13th the game😂😂😂

I don’t blame Constance she was doing the right thing it’s sad to see her die right after the fall I knew that nebbercracker miss her may her soul Rest In Peace🕊

Poor thing she just wanted a safe place to live T_T

This is literally why monster house is the best kids horror ever

Honestly this was the biggest plot twist for me as a kid. Not finding out she was controlling the house but finding out he wasn’t really mean

Greatest plot twist in movie history

A soul in the house, like other ghosts that live in other haunted houses.

This brings a whole new meaning to the word 'housewife'. Nebbercracker could had plenty of time to save her, cement doesn't dry up that fast!

Even tho her death was tragic, but chooseing not to pass on was a big mistake

3:03 XDDDDDD Sounds like a Loudspeaker!

Steve Buscemi absolutely sells this part of the film. The rest of it is whatever, then it suddenly becomes really compelling for 2 minutes. It's crazy.

Circus owner looking at her: Hmm yes, something I can make money from

2:18 Get away from my house!

I watched this when I was like 10 idk but the story of constance n her death traumatized me it still does

the shot of her falling used to scare the shit out of me

I love the way this scene reveals the “mean old man” at the scary house was protecting the children that feared him the whole time

Bro yeah this may be just a kids movie but even back then I would have called the cops to at least remove her body and report it as an accident even if it Nebbercracker turned her death spot into her gravesite!

If anyone is here in 2024 you know when Constance got covered in cement just in that minute when it went completely dark you can actually hear her taking her last breathe and what year do all of you think she died in 1940s or 1950s

Aww the back story to this movie is cute

That explains why he was bad in the first place I don’t blame him for this

Hang On a Minute He Had a Cement Mixer There But The Thing Is That She Used It Because She Fall In With It and He Left Her Under The House

I gotta rewatch this movie

Bro this scene was so sad when I watched this, all she wanted was love and all that trauma and bigotry from her circus life just turned her bitter. Getting eggs thrown at was merely a reminder of the way she was treated back at the circus, and all it did was break my heart 😭

Nebbercracker was one strong man. What a beautiful heart he had! I adore this movie.

3:00 she stumbles like a indian drama character

This movie was so weird to me as a kid and still is

This Kinda Made Me Upset & Also Made Me Cry Too She Didn’t Deserve To Die Like That & Also The Way She Was Her Health I Can’t Believe They Didn’t Take Better Care Of Her Those Holegins Who We’re Mean To Her & Mr. Nebacracker Who Was The Only One Who Showed Kindess & Love & Compassion Towards Her & If He Had Just Detained Her From Falling She Would Still Lived, But Since He Didn’t Get Up In Time To Save Her, She Had To Meet That Tragic End To Her Life, Never Had a Chance To Live Her Full Life All Because Of That Incident😶😢😢

Bro i remember being terrified of this as a kid.

That was a really good story 👌👍 and so that's what happened 😳 and I remember the part from the movie and that was a really good one 👍.

--DANG-- Haven't looked at this in YEARS.

Where the hell where they living? Why are there random bushes in the middle of nowhere like the house. What were the kids doing there

What I love about this movie is that every antagonist (Nebbercracker, Constantine/The House, Bones) start out as unlikeable, then we learn about them and realise they’re just in pain. Great message for a horror movie. We become monsters when pain is too great.

I love that even though everyone mistreated her as a human he still loved her so much he helped her and protected her ❤

The voiceactor for Constance (Kathleen Turner) is the same voiceactor for Jessica Rabbit (from 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit')

How tf did these kids even find this middle of nowhere house? How did they even get there?

Everyone’s hero is a fun sport movie from fox pictures.

I wonder why the kids were attacking her house

It’s so surreal that that’s Kathleen Turner who voiced Constance cause she also voiced Jessica Rabbit in _Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_

This is my PEAK childhood memory. My guilty pleasure of watching this horror movie

Sad really but when a house eats people it has to be put down

One time when I was on a cruise my brother was watching this

These two always remind me of Eustace and Euriel from Courage Cowardly dog

See this is why I cannot see the sense in anyone egging a house.

I used to watch this film everyday ad a kids. I realise now that i'ts not so horror, but it's sad. A tragic love story who turned into hell for both of them :(

“She died… but she didn’t leave” *TRIPS*

Can anyone else relate to movies and shows in the way that they form eras with other related memories attached like a web, and monster house has a long standing memory relating back to that kid era where school had recently started and the autumn leaves really help create notes to attach onto and relive childhood memories? Who else can relate to this, James and the giant peach, Wallace and grommet, Igor, elf, polar express, and all the other seasonal memories

Siempre que la veo no se porqué Constance Nebbercracker 🤦‍♀️ me llega instantáneamente a la mente asi sin querer 🙁

Why are those kids even in the desert with them anyway? 😂

"I can take you away from here, would you like that?" W pick up line

This lore actually gave me nightmares as a kid.

This is such a good movie big part of my childhood too 3:45