''How did the house handle previous Halloween nights? Why can't they just repeat whatever worked back then?'' My understanding is that the house only became such a serious threat THIS Halloween because Horace was usually there to keep it under control until this year. HE was what worked before, but now he's in the hospital, so there's nobody home to keep unsuspecting trick or treaters away from the house before it can lure them in and attack them.
this seems to be pretty much canon, especially with the house taunting the kid specifically, seeing as how he was the one who 'killed' him. kinda weird that dazz didnt pick up on this, it seems pretty obvious
So the reason the house didn’t eat kids on previous Halloween’s was because of Nevercracker keeping kids away. The house started being more aggressive after she witness his supposed death (note the scene where the grass grabs his finger)
The worst part is this: A normal human would have probably been killed by the fall. Constance has quite a bit of bulk on her, so the most the fall would do is badly injure her, maybe even paralyze her. And seeing as how her corpse is facing up when the kids find her, she had to watch as the cement fell on her, covering her from head to toe, unable to get back up because of the pain she was in. There's no telling how long Nebercracker was out cold, but he was probably out for a few hours, allowing for the cement to dry and suffocate his wife. So while the fall wouldn't have killed her, the suffocation she suffered definitely did her in.
@@pineforest1442 he literally got hit in the head with a shovel by Constance. And seeing as how we didn't see Horace get back up to stop her from falling, it's no doubt because he was knocked out cold.
The "anatomy" of the house is honestly pretty genius. The basement being the stomach, the front door carpet being the tongue, main chandelier the Uvula, etc. Kinda wish we saw more of the house but oh well. The design is really neat personally.
You asked about previous Haloweens and why the house was targeting DJ. Well the answer to both is Nevercracker, he could have kept kids away previous years and his heart attack happened as he was yelling at DJ. Even though its obviously not his fault the house might hold a grudge against him.
It's actually shown in the movie that the house does hold a grudge against DJ. After Nevercracker is driven away in the ambulance, and the boys are looking back at the house, we get the shot through the window. And in the shot in the window, we can see the class crack in a way that it crosses over DJ's neck in the angle.
Words cannot describe how terrible I feel for Constance, the poor girl was abused and mocked by insensitive kids and I understand why she had such a hatred for them, she deserved to life a quiet happy life with nebbercracker, that scene where she says goodbye to nebbercracker never fails to break my heart, I'm just glad she eventually found peace
@@thejaded id be here for an anthology kinda thing still set in the same neighborhood. this story was satisfying but i need the same vibes put onto another project. also whoever composed the music deserves all my money frfr
@@katrinamack444 That's not a bad idea tbh.. There's endless stories to tell with an anthology type series. Maybe they could expand upon how the adults don't really recognize the crazy shit that happens and go from there. 🤷♀️😁
I honestly kinda like how the "It's a girl house" joke because of Chowder's ignorant confusion between the words uvula and vulva also serves as foreshadowing Because it actually _is_ a woman's soul possessing the house
Reading your comment made me realise the joke.. After maybe 15 years?? (I was born in 2003 and am terrible at maths lol) I finally realised that Chowder did not literally mean he has no uvula XD
Monster House is a pretty unique oddity, even if it is a weird look from its motion capture animation, it certainly has a great stop motion look about it. It was certainly a surreal memory back in my childhood days. Also, the uncanny animation works as to help drive it's horror aesthetic; look at any character, and you'll recognise it for the film it comes from.
Just a theory, I think the house was taunting dj cause it blamed him for the apparent death of Horris, at least that’s what I always thought watching the film
Believe or not, Monster House remains as the only mocap animated film to get nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars before the Academy decided to not include mocap animated films anymore a few years later.
@@MovieManReviewsgonna be honest I like happy feet but this is a master piece compared to happy feet. Happy feet is like a musical sometimes especially the newer ones sometimes I'm like stop singing damn. Monster house should have won
As a kid I was actually never afraid of the dark, but after seeing this film on TV one night somewhere between the ages of 4-6 it actually made me afraid of the dark, so this film definitely sticks with me quite a bit
@@bakedbaker9882 That scene with the tentacles always *really* scared me. In a place I lived from like 8-16 the bedrooms were upstairs and the kitchen and living room downstairs, so whenever I went to bed for the night after turning off the lights I'd just *sprint* up the stairs cause I was so terrified of those tentacles from the film even though I knew it obviously wouldn't actually happen
It made me further scared of the dark, and it made me think my dresser was moving at night. I vaguely remember looking at it from my bed and thinking it was shifting around in place.
Dan Harmon's original draft of the film reveals that originally the interior of the house was supposed to be filled with actual human internal organs rather than wooden walls and floors. Yes, walls and floors of flesh and bone...
I remember this movie so fondly. Mostly because it got me into horror and Halloween. My cousins who are much older than I was knew I shouldn't be watching Nightmare on Elm Street put Monster House. And they even enjoyed it. Looking back, seeing the tragedy of Constance. Nearly brought tears to my eye.
6:36 Q: How did the house handle other Halloween nights? A: Nebbercracker was there to keep Constance at bay and put up signs to threaten kids to stay away from him and the house. Constance hates the kids for the torment they put her through and definitely wasn’t going to listen to DJ, Chowder, or Jenny. Q: why was the house taunting CJ randomly if it only attacks people on its grounds? A: CJ was the child who caused Nebbercracker to have a heart attack and thus be taken away from her. This child had stolen away the one person who made her feel complete, so now she has a particular grudge towards him for what he had done. This is intensified by how the movie has imagery of the house’s window cracking through CJ after Nebbercracker was taken away to show she wants him dead. And later in the film, it was CJ who tried to get Nebbercracker to move on after Constance had just gotten him back. This one boy was taking away the only person she had left twice, hence her murderous intend towards them.
I remember Beowulf. My mom rented it for me when I was about 8 and having a sleepover with my 6 year old cousin. That was the day she learned “animated does NOT mean for kids”.
My only question about the movie, is how did the entire neighborhood not hear this massive house just thumping down the street chasing the kids? Let alone the dynamite explosion at the end. But still I love this movie.
The houses is literally have not lights in them so the best scenario that they either going all out during the chase/ or Didn't want to getting involved with nebbercracker's house
This was one of my favourite movies when I was younger, and still is today! There’s a lot of jokes I get now I’m an adult, and the gags are genuinely funny most of the time. It was an amazing “horror movie” for kids, and i believe it’s a great introduction to the genre
I like the janky uncanny looking Imagemovers animation, it adds to the creepiness of the movie. If this was done by Pixar or Dreamworks I doubt it would be as creepy
I enjoy Dazzs videos on films, but I keep noticing times where the questions hes pointing out as flaws in the content for not filling are...actually very much answered in the film? Like, it's happened before and now with this film, where there's very blatant answers to why the house has changed its behaviour that the characters bring up multiple times. It kind of feels like Dazz doesn't actually watch the films properly, maybe just skims it while doing something else and then works off of what he remembers from that I swear every video there's comments answering what he claims are potholes or bad crafting of the story 😔
I thought the "padding" wasn't bad actually, there needed to be build up to actually going into the house when they're so scared of it. If they'd not exhausted other options by having such terrible excuses for authority figures then it would have felt like they weren't actually seeing it as a threat, you know? But the only adult who didn't ignore/laugh at them was too lost in his games to realise they were talking about real life and gave them a video game style solution, I didn't think that was a bad way of leading to the kids doing something as insane as actually going into the mouth of the monster willingly, and thats kind of the only way they could have had them explore the house freely instead of being eaten alive like the other victims. THAT would have been a plot hole, if they got eaten and then were just casually able to wander around, since that should mean the other victims ought to have been able to as well, you know? Alls things considered it reminded me of the ideas behind stories that adults look at and see kids endangered and kids look at and see themselves surviving danger, you know? Dumb mistakes are made that can only come from how young they are, but it works out in the end because they tried anyway
This movie encapsulates the feel of Halloween for me. There’s just something about it that takes me back in such a great way. It’s funny, I didn’t even realize this film was set in the 80s until more recently. I started to notice similarities to the vibes I got from stranger things when I rewatched it years later and now I can totally see it and I honestly love it even more now.
Looking back it was pretty obvious. Chowder is seen playing an Atari, DJ's babysitter had a cassette tape, and the pizza guy is voiced by Napoleon Dynamite
Saw this in theaters and it was definitely a better experience then rewatching it on streaming awhile back. In hindsight, I thoroughly enjoyed it more then any of the other movies they made on the principle it wasn't trying as hard to be as realistic as possible. The lanky, near stop-motion movement is really charming to me.
When I was little I was terrified of this movie. I remember my little brother always picking it on movie nights just to scare me, which inadvertently caused me to love this movie later in life.
You should definitely watch the polar express! I understand why people see it as uncanny valley but I personally love it. The music is amazing and while not incredibly well animated some of the shot compositions are insane, like when the boy loses the girls ticket and it goes on a little journey of its own. Definitely a Christmas tradition for me!
Honestly the game based on this movie was one of my favorites, I loved the way they ran with rhe idea of a monsterous house by turning all the appliances, from chairs to stoves to televisions, into horrific monsters hellbent on killing the children. Honestly one of my all time favs based on the atmosphere alone, even if it is quite goofy.
The house was handled in previous years by horace, as the movie says. It also shows how vindictive and defensive the spirit trapped within the house is towards children, and we see that it can recognise people and react to them like a human because it is a house possessed by horace's wife, as the movie shows, which is why it taunts the main character, and uses the basketball on the fat kid and the kite on Keith Richards.
While this film was not the kind of terrifying that kept you up at night 3 days in a row, the underlying maturity of the plot gave me a strong fondness for the movie.
My favorite moment in Monster House was when DJ and Chowder were playing basketball. Mainly because of the line "The in your face disgrace" That line and what happened right after he said it still makes me laugh to this day
I just wanted to say that as a casual movie watcher I am not at all familiar with most actor and producer names and I’m able to recognize them more by their face. Thank you for showing pictures of them while naming them. It was very much appreciated ^^
Movie definitely had some cringe innuendos for a kids film, but, it did stand out and was unique with its idea. Plus, it managed to be genuinely scary and creepy to me as a kid, and that's what it was made to do.
this shit was the foundation for every fear I had as a child, and probably still two or three now. Fuck this movie; but also I wouldn't change a god damn thing about it.
My kids love this movie… we watch it every Halloween season. As an adult I appreciate the dark subplot of the wife dying encased in cement haunting the house… pretty legit for a kids movie.
Idk how or why but this is one of the first movies i showed my son, who's ASD and he was so devastated when Netflix finally removed it 😂 he's only 4 so he's been watching it since he was 1 and he calls it "cucuy house" but it's one of his favorite movies, when he's an adult he will consider it a classic 😌
I genuinely love the polar express. It was my favourite movie as a kid. Rewatching it now, it’s surprisingly good looking as well, the lighting was on point which was always a problem I had with monster house… it was lit weirdly, looks like it was rendered in an early 3D video game engine
I had this movie on DVD and the screen where you play the movie had the house STARING directly AT you and breathing heavily. I was so afraid to press that play button every single time. And when you did press play the tongue shot out and dragged you inside!
Before I finish ur video I just want to say this film is so AHEAD OF ITS TIME. this film is my sons favourite film and he’s 3. EVERY time I put it on I am impressed again and again. Such a brilliant film.
My experience with Monster House is really unusual, because I played the video game first, then watched the movie. The game...is actually pretty okay for an adaptation of a movie. You get to see a lot more of the house and there are some decently spooky stuff in it.
This movie really made me interested in the concept of sentient buildings and houses! In fact, it made me wonder, (after watching Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (remember that movie?)) what a sentient public building (maybe even a family hotel with a water park or something) would be like? Like Monster House…but x 10! And 10x more wacky!
1) The main kid essentially got her husband taken away, she was vengeful enough to taunt him to come closer to punish him. 2) This is the first Halloween without the husband, the old man clearly did a lot of work to keep kids away. Essentially he was the leash holder and he was gone. 3) She gets really angry when she sees her husband on the kids' side and not her's. The whole movie is a jaded woman wanting to make the suffer as she did.
I remember that I played the PS2 game before watching the movie. I liked how the game expanded on the Monster House more, having a lot of rooms inside the house to explore that were not in the movie. The game was like a mix of Resident Evil 2 (exploring inside RCPD) and 4 (being a TPS) but toning down the horror and violence for kids lol.
Honesty, Monster House was terrifying as a kid. I think I legit thought is was a full on slasher horror movie. Nowadays I say it's more eerie. Also regarding Polar Express. I cannot honestly say I've ever heard anyone *really* lump in the human character designs in with the visual effects and such when they praise the animation.
I can remember this corpse and the whole story behind it, how she fell down there giving me such chills as a little child. I couldn't ducking sleep for literally months, since this haunted me.
1:34 The movie isn't stop motion tho? Its motion capture. Stop motion is stuff like Nightmare before Christmas. You have toys, take a pic, move them a bit, take another pic, and continue on and on for hours to make a scene. Motion capture is CGI. Just dress up a bunch of people with funny suits and have them move around and capture their movements with a computer.
Love the movie. Watched it in the movies as a kid but has found some problems. Like the animation and the neighborhood seem almost abandoned as we hardly see anyone except the kids, the old couple, the cops, the baby sitter and her BF, the kid with the bike in the beginning, CJ's parents, and the geek in the restaurant and that's it. Like, where is everyone?!
Believe it or not, I've actually seen some people, mostly group reaction channels, turn against this movie for its "outdated" and "weird looking" animation. Though I think the uncanny valley is a good thing for a spooky movie.
This was done via stop animation? I thought it was just a weird type of CGI animation style? I'm in, some parts do feel like they may have used a little bit of CGI probably to polish it up around the edges. I wouldn't be surprised. But if this is truly mostly or if not all just stop motion animation, then God damn. I would have never guessed. I thought it was just a type of animation style to set the atmosphere and mood. Honestly in my opinion that is impressive. When to stop motion animation is good enough to the point where you don't even realize it stop motion animation, you just see it as almost cgi, I think that's pretty good. A group of people came together and made something that good by hand instead of just with computers. That kind of gives me more of an appreciation for it.
It's always somewhat nostalgic coming back to this movie. Now that I think about the story, I wonder if me watching Monster House as a kid subconsciously lead to me becoming a FNaF fan over 10 years later. 🤔
I used to be terrified of this film A pretty vivid memory I have is having it stuck on the dvd menu with the creepy ass house making sounds, all because we lost the remote, I was scarred ever since lol
There is actually a monster house video game that shows alot more of the inside of the house and how it works. The game is pretty old though like gamecube era.
I'm tired of all the parents out there saying Monster House, Coraline and 9(2009) are for kids when they are not! They are not run-of-the-mill generic Disney films. They are actually nightmarish movies, with existential deep moments, and eldritch villains.
I think the original version of the film was meant to be a much darker film hint the earlier concept art. where I think the house would've killed the babysitter and the pizza Chad gamer, and the house would go full on terrorize the kids
Yep, they should have kept it in that everyone eaten before would have died. Makes no sense the house tries to rip DJ, Chowder and Jenny to shreds but then throws everyone else in the basement.
Monster House in concept sounds like your typical horror movie premise and I dug it as a kid but now that I'm older I really appreciate the emotional aspects a lot more
