Monster house was always like... the IDEAL spooky / Halloween movie to me as a kid. It's genuinely unsettling, but only just so. I think it's one of the starts to me knowing that animation isn't expressly for children alone.
Surprisingly they intended to make an even darker film. The people who were swallowed would not survive, the children would use bullies who chased Chowder and DJ to trick the house instead of the vacuum cleaner... they also cut several scenes inside the house because it would have been too scary. I love this movie so much, it’s my favorite animated movie since I was just a kid.
Same here it's my favourite animated movie the house is so scary and the Design is awesome. Like how the fuck did they make a house look genuinely creepy
A fence wouldn't have solved the problem. We see that she's able to control everything on the lawn, including the sidewalk, the pipes underneath the sidewalk, the trees, the grass, the fence would have only given her more stuff to control.
I’m just imagining someone walking on the sidewalk and a fence post just smacks you across the back of the head and gives you a concussion after reading that.
When Nebbercracker built the house (late 40s, Post-WW2 and 50s) it was normal to be buried on the grounds of the home when you died. That's why so many rural homes now have family graveyards still on the property. Pulling her body out of the basement would have required a specialist crew and a crane. And doing so would have taken her from the one place where she was happy and the only person she was happy with. He saved her the indignity of having to be lifted out via a recovery crew. He cut the wheels off her cart and lowered the cage down there to protect her tomb. We saw how fragile the thin concrete encasing her bones was once she completely decomposed. Its not just a shrine. Its her mausoleum.
The movie was released in 2006 and Nebbercracker claimed they had been trapped for 45 years, which meant the house was built in approximately in 1961. Thats like my own calculation
@@JoeyFlyBoy Apparently the movie takes place in 1983. I just looked it up. The 45 year time frame says 1938. Maybe he served in WW2 while she waited for him to come home (after she died)
@@kristophersy773 Well, my best guess: She was property of the circus. That would technically be slavery though, so if this happens in our same world, then the guy would be like, about 170 years old, so don't think so
Not to mention it looked like it happened in the 60's, maybe 50's. Telling someone that his wife fell to her death and cement just happened to pour over her is gonna look and sound hella sus.
Also, if you watch closely, you can see that he gets knocked out in the scuffle, so the cement had probably already hardened in the time it took for him to come to.
I'd like to suggest Hoodwinked. It's another one of those movies from around this time that's way better than it looks like it'll be, but rarely is talked about.
This movie is such a classic lmao. As a kid I was incredibly scared of this and now it's just sooo funny. I also really like the twist, it's well done.
@@lilveltheplayer2164Yo finally I found someone like me the main menu scared me to death lmao. Everytime I saw the house just sitting there breathing creeped me the fuck out
50:26 She's a 'giantess'. He would have run out of funds to finish the house if he'd successfully gotten someone to take her body out, and that was an _absurd_ distance to drop (possibly exaggerated for effect, but even so, dropping far enough to die on impact is dropping far enough that contractors are entitled to go "yikes, nah"). And that's _without_ factoring in "oh, she _is_ the house now." In the years since, anyone even misstepping onto the lawn was in trouble. Hiring people to come in and retrieve her body at that point would have been a moot try.
One of my favorite childhood movies and I loved the game on the PS2 since its setting was mostly set in the house (that was somehow the size of a mansion) and they used water guns as weapons against the possessed furniture 😂 They also had "Thou Art Dead" as an arcade game in-game.
@@derykjames620 dealing with those pipes as Chower was honestly the scariest parts of the game for me. They sometimes just come out of nowhere and suck you up lol.
The childhood memory i have about this movie is the very first time I went to hardees they happened to have monster house toys and I remember getting one that was the house maze with a metal little ball inside it and you had to maneuver it around
I love Monster House! Another hidden gem: Hoodwinked! The animation isn't all that (would benefit from an update) but the characters are memorable and the story was fun and interesting! Halloween? Try "Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers," "The Birds" and "Fallen!"
In answer to your question of why Nebbercracker never just built a fence around the house: If you consider the traumatic fact that Constance spent much of her life in a cage, I don't think Nebbercracker had it in his heart to "cage" her like that, even in her new form as the house itself. Plus given her highly aggressive behavior, he didn't want to get her upset and simply stuck to signs and physically charging at anyone who came within reach of the house. Also, in answer to why they didn't just move Constance instead of leaving her in the basement, I'm pretty sure she was a reclusive individual and wouldn't have wanted her remains to be moved from the one place that made her happy. Plus between the time she died to the present time of 1983 when this takes place, Her soul was probably already attached to the foundation of the house. So Nebbercracker has been "chained" to this place ensuring his wife doesn't bring harm to anyone around her; and vice versa. I think because the last thing he did was promise Constance that he would never let anyone "hurt her" (which she emphasized that the house was "part of her") he could never leave except during the times she "rested," which was when he'd resupply and such. And as for building the cage around her remains, it could have been to help "recreate" the happy memory of when they met. Every detail that Nebbercracker commits to doesn't seem convenient or sensible, but given the little we have to go by his wife and her unfortunate curse-like circumstances (not to mention the era they come from) it's not totally wrong in what he tried to do.
I've always thought she immediately took control of the house upon her death, so attempting to remove the remains even when the house wasn't fully built could potentially kill someone.
Fun fact, the only safe place inside the house is the bathrooms Because if anything comes to life in there, the water pipes will break and the house will drown itself from the inside out.
40:50 okay but honestly hearing it put this way makes the recent wave of popularity in analog horror and social media based ARG's make SO much sense (And if you guys like horror, you should TOTALLY do some reactions. Some of them are incredible, local 58, mandela catalogue, vita carnis, & wyoming incident, the sun vanished, and cicada 3301 as examples for both respectively). Not only is there technology at the protagonists finger tips in these situations, but it's sometimes being used against them or is in general a piece of the puzzle, and the fact the horror CAN be documented, but is being shut down in some way, is part of what's so frightening. Modern problems require modern solutionns
Monster House is a classic and fav for me! (Even though they look like Spirit Halloween decorations) Thank you SO MUCH for reacting to it! I watch it EVERY Halloween.
We need more animated horror movies, this one is so special for me cuz i never seen a movie so unique on its tone , i need some movie like this again SO BAD
48:53 ok let's say Nebbercracker actually built a fence, nothing's gonna stop Constance from picking up the fence and hurting kids with it, plus it would have to be connected to the other fences, which would then give her more to work with
Rip Fred Willard 1933-2020 The actor who played Nebbercracker his name is Steve Buscemi he was a New York City Firefighter from 1980 to 1984 with Eugene Company Number 55, the the Little Italy section of New York, the day after the September 11 attack in New York, he returned to his old firehouse to volunteer, he worked twelve hour shifts for a week and dug through rubble looking for missing firefighters, On May 25 2003 Buscemi was arrested wing 19 other people while protesting the closing of a number of firehouses, including Eugine 55
@@iso-didact789 he voiced the dad in this movie He voiced Melvin in Chicken Little He was in WALL-E He was in Family Matters, Roseanne, Sister Sister, King of the Hill, Hey Arnold, He played Hank MacDougall in Everybody Loves Raymond He played Frank Dunphy in Modern Family He voiced Grandpa Murphy in Milo Murphy's Law and last He voiced Pop Pop in The Loud House
So something pretty interesting that was in the bonus content of Monster House's DVD, they actually expanded on Skull's (The "Expert") trivia knowledge of Domus Mactibilis. Apparently there are some mythological stories based on it where homes would usually be possessed by the vengeful soul of it's inhabitants; specifically in Greek mythology. They were generally people who were ruthless, tyrannical, and reclusive, usually resulting in becoming the house itself to devour anyone who came within reach. The thing is they were at a stage where they were identified as "golem" or something that wasn't quite at a dangerous level. It was only when they'd consumed enough souls did they alter to a "demon" stage where their soul could never be saved, and they'd become a mindless creature who only sought to satiate it's hunger. In one story, a Domus Mactibilis that was possessed by a particularly vicious ruler had been infiltrated by a team of villagers who decided to defeat it once and for all before it could kill more unfortunate souls that passed by. It was through their mission to defeat it that they'd left behind the knowledge of dousing the heart (or any source of heat/energy) to bring it down. ***Had TJ and the gang not helped Nebbercracker defeat Constance before she'd gotten a full taste of blood (since she failed to digest her victims in time), there was a high chance she would have turned and forgotten all about who she was, too.
My personal favorite scenes from this movie would the plot twist backstory and the ending where Mr. Nebbercracker thanks the kids and returns the kids' belongings
I really wish they had made like show after this movie. Of dj, chowder, and Jenny being like mystery solvers of supernatural cases. Going to school, visiting mr. nevercracker. Jenny dating DJ.
Or Mars Needs Moms, but better, more mean, and suspenseful. Spiderwick Chronicles was also surprisingly intense for a kids movie. Having it animated in motion capture would make it extra great As motion capture has its uncanny valley, it can work in it's favor.
I remember watching this in the theater and thinking "this is the most realistic animation I have ever seen" and looking at it now it's like "oof, that mocap is pretty janky."
Yeah same haha. Honestly it's not horrible though, especially compared to something like Polar Express. This will never happen, but this is actually a Movie i would love to see remade, make the animation not mocap and also add a few more scenes that got cut
Sure, but the movie is still just as good. But the book is more... creepy with imagery, but the lack of 'character' interaction is something that hinders the book somewhat.
I'd actually argue that the movie was better than the book, especially with how it utilized the Other Mother. In the book, she didn't do much to hide the fact that she was a monster (she was already looking like the stretched-out, skeletal version of Coraline's mom, when she first appeared).
Oh lord this movie 😭😭 I love watching y’all’s reactions but my little sister watched this movie 2x a day for like a year she was obsessed 😂 I’ll power through it for y’all 😂😂
I just have this movie cemented in my memory because when I was little, like probably 6ish, the first time I ever snuck out of bed at night was to go to my living room and watch Monster House alone, and I remember feeling so proud afterward that it didn’t freak me out
My grandmother was my baby sitter. She was OBSESSED with the sci-fi channel and anything Stephen king and horror so I grew up on that shit now I straight up practice witch craft 😂 may she RIP cuz she was the GOAT of spooky stuff 🤧✨❤️🔥
The fact they said they didnt know Steven Spielberg was involved in making this after them seeing the Amblin logo and talking about ET made me face palm as a movie nerd 😂
I have a tradition of saving this movie for only Halloween time... It just fits around that time... So I only watch it once a year... but I've seen it so many times I can recite lines....
I don't know if you guys are watching this on DVD, but I remember having it as a kid. The home screen was literally just the house with creepy ambiance, but you sit for too long the house would wake up and jumpscare you.
Thank you for reacting❤❤, when I was a child this movie scared me a lot which is why it was one of my favorites and I rewatched it a lot, because of it I used to be scared at night but now I rewatch it and have fun😂😂.
Absolutely loved this movie as a kid! Such an underrated work of art! Absolutely love your guys videos and reactions to these childhood gems! Can't wait to see what Halloween movies you have in store! I recommend Goosebumps the movie with Jack Black! Also Corpse Bride, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands, Hocus Pocus and Scooby Doo and The Boo Brothers and Scooby Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf! Perfect variety of Halloween movies 😁 🎃
This was one of my FAVORITE movies to put on for Halloween, the only thing that put me off from playing it was the terrifying DVD selection screen…God it was so unnerving and I’d be too afraid to get near the DVD player
Love how there are two versions of a sentient house most notably (that i remember/know) The 'horror' trauma house in monster house, and the _other_ nice trauma house in encanto. Funny how they were both built in relation to a dead spouse, just in different circumstance Both protecting their loves, but in honestly vastly different solutions. One scares anyone away from it's resident as protection (i believe?) - and the other gave to the family and community to save both. Difference is how the gone spouses were treated and perished.
This is not the first video I've seen from your channel, but the extended discussion of basketball prices and how Chowder earned the money was the moment I decided to subscribe. My take -- Chowder ABSOLUTELY got 20 cents per raked yard, and then got a dollar from his Mom 26 times. It's a classic Dan Harmon joke, wouldn't be out of place on Community.
When they are debating what to do with the body covered with the cement did they forgot that she was a property of the circus and the man kinda stole her away from the circus and could land himself in jail.
Hey, thanks for the sticker ads beside horror movies. Seriously, they help divert attention. "This is nerve-racking. Pay attention to this ad for a quick moment."
Whenever I get asked what’s my favorite movie I always say Monster House. I remember making a fort as a kid with pillows and blankets and watching it every time it came on tv. I’ve had to have watched this movie like over 15 times i had an obsession 😭
50:54 I mean, Nebercracker did commit a crime in taking Constance away from the circus technically. He wanted to build a life with her away from people probably not to be so easily recognized. If they would have been found out he may have been arrested and she’d go back to the circus. Once she died if he’d have retrieved her body he would have needed help. That’s being publicity, attention, people would know that it was her and they’d wonder what’d happened. He’d have been in more trouble than he already was.
I had a fair number of babysitters growing up. Most of them are relatives or my grandmother's friends whenever I stayed the weekends with her because she had a gabling habit.😂 My mom don't left me home a few times but she neglected to tell me the first time had to turn off our house alarm and I was seven So the cops came over. I pretty much got left alone to myself more often after I turned Twelve , but I also had to play babysitter with my younger sisters and at least a few times for cousins who were younger than me.
Now that I'm older, I can see that the basement probably wasn't that far of a drop since they were on the ground floor. So she definitely WAS alive when she landed, it's just the concrete was so close behind her that it didn't matter.
this movie scared the shit out of me as a kid! i remember i had a painting of a house in my bedroom right across from my bed and the night after i watched the movie i made my dad take it off the wall because looking at it in the dark freaked me out and i couldn't sleep!
This is one of the movies that I would watch on a weekly basis as a kid because we owned it on DVD. I could probably recite every line of this movie from memory 😂
Right along side scary godmother this movie tops one of my favorite childhood October movies ever, literally watched this every time it came on to Cartoon Network 😌
I love this movie, I’m very happy you guys decided to watch this amazing underrated movie, it’s one of my favorite childhood movies and it’s nice to see that you enjoyed it. And fun fact: this movie gave some kids nightmares because this movie is considered a horror movie for children.
I think the main reason he doesn’t put up a fence is because it would remind her of the cage that she was in. However, I still wonder how the hell did no one else hear what was going on
I find it absolutely hilarious that this was freeking you out but it is a staple Halloween movie for me since i was younger. However Coraline scares the shit out of me, but yall said it was nothing. 😂
When i was a kid, this movie was the most fucking scarier thing i've ever seen. I literally couldn't finished it without closing my eyes or getting out of my room. I love this shit.
Seeyoni: "So is it like a house full of monsters." Oh, Seeyoni. You have no idea. I love how we were to believe that Nebercracker possessed the house after he died. But it was his wife who was the house all along. What a twist!
Do you know what I'm still baffled by? At the end of the movie, Constance, or rather her spirit in the house, gets up and starts chasing Mr. Nebbercracker and the kids across the neighborhood, which eventually leads to a massive explosion. Now, mind you, this all happens on early Halloween night. *How the fuckin hell did no one else notice a gigantic literal monster house roaming the streets?!* Again, this all happened on Halloween. And unlike prior to the rest of the movie, the house is actually moving! You seriously mean to tell me a group of kids in costumes or someone who was giving out candy didn't see anything? Bull. Shit!
Apparently my first and only babysitter made me sniff acetone so would i pass out and when my parents came home they would think i was asleep and when she got arrested she said in front of the police the very next day she was gonna make me drink it,i was just a couple months old
I just remember something. In the old series of Courage, the coward dog, once there was a man who moved into Nowhere, but the supernatural stuff wasn't the man, it was his house, which was alive. In the end Courage calms the house by fixing it.
Monster house was always like... the IDEAL spooky / Halloween movie to me as a kid. It's genuinely unsettling, but only just so. I think it's one of the starts to me knowing that animation isn't expressly for children alone.
This and Coraline
@sherylannd6813 i actually never hit Coraline until I was an adult, but yeah, Coraline too.
@sherylannd6813 oh! Wasn't there one called Nine that was kinda like that too?
@@itsCaptainEli9 was awesome, rewatched it recently
@Orion_44 I forgot if it was Nine or 9, I knee it was particular. I never actually watched it though, just recall it usually comes up.
Surprisingly they intended to make an even darker film. The people who were swallowed would not survive, the children would use bullies who chased Chowder and DJ to trick the house instead of the vacuum cleaner... they also cut several scenes inside the house because it would have been too scary. I love this movie so much, it’s my favorite animated movie since I was just a kid.
@@Art-X-W I don't think Coraline is darker (unless we're talking about the book)
True
@@hellermorais1424I think he meant the book
Same here it's my favourite animated movie the house is so scary and the Design is awesome. Like how the fuck did they make a house look genuinely creepy
Now I wish there were/was going to be a Director's special edition, giving us the darkest possible version of this movie.
A fence wouldn't have solved the problem. We see that she's able to control everything on the lawn, including the sidewalk, the pipes underneath the sidewalk, the trees, the grass, the fence would have only given her more stuff to control.
Right. It could have just pulled it under anyway like with the sign. The other fences were off of the property, so it couldn’t mess with them.
Even if he did try putting up a fence, if she didn't want it she easily could have gotten rid of it.
I’m just imagining someone walking on the sidewalk and a fence post just smacks you across the back of the head and gives you a concussion after reading that.
Yeah totally!
@@Mehetti Exactly. She only let him put the signs up cause she didn't want people bothering them anyway.
When Nebbercracker built the house (late 40s, Post-WW2 and 50s) it was normal to be buried on the grounds of the home when you died. That's why so many rural homes now have family graveyards still on the property. Pulling her body out of the basement would have required a specialist crew and a crane. And doing so would have taken her from the one place where she was happy and the only person she was happy with. He saved her the indignity of having to be lifted out via a recovery crew. He cut the wheels off her cart and lowered the cage down there to protect her tomb. We saw how fragile the thin concrete encasing her bones was once she completely decomposed. Its not just a shrine. Its her mausoleum.
That was beautiful my guy
The movie was released in 2006 and Nebbercracker claimed they had been trapped for 45 years, which meant the house was built in approximately in 1961. Thats like my own calculation
@@JoeyFlyBoy Apparently the movie takes place in 1983. I just looked it up. The 45 year time frame says 1938. Maybe he served in WW2 while she waited for him to come home (after she died)
49:46
1- she is too big to move it's better to leave her there
2- he technically kidnapped her from the circus so he can't ask for help
I mean is it kidnapping if she wanted to leave?
@@kristophersy773 Well, my best guess: She was property of the circus. That would technically be slavery though, so if this happens in our same world, then the guy would be like, about 170 years old, so don't think so
Not to mention it looked like it happened in the 60's, maybe 50's. Telling someone that his wife fell to her death and cement just happened to pour over her is gonna look and sound hella sus.
There's also the question on when she took control of the house. Maybe she took control immediately, which is why he made the house by himself?
Also, if you watch closely, you can see that he gets knocked out in the scuffle, so the cement had probably already hardened in the time it took for him to come to.
I'd like to suggest Hoodwinked. It's another one of those movies from around this time that's way better than it looks like it'll be, but rarely is talked about.
yeah, but only the first one
Omg yes!!!
Thank you for the reco I was just thinking of what to watch today 😊
The first Hookwinked is such a funny and hidden gem, i'd put it on in the background while i cleaned all night at my old job.
@@allanasifuina896 huh I never saw the sequels... are they normal sequel material for disney dvd movies?
I love this movie. Fun Fact: Skull the pizza guy is voice by Napoleon Dynamite.
Huh i was wondering why he sounded familiar
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This movie is such a classic lmao. As a kid I was incredibly scared of this and now it's just sooo funny. I also really like the twist, it's well done.
Yep. Back in 2008, the main menu screen on DVD always scared me to a point where I hid in another room and my Mom had to click play for me 😂
@@lilveltheplayer2164that's so real😂 we also had a neighbor who was a really mean old lady so I was pretty sure I'd get eaten by her house one day
@@lilveltheplayer2164SAME LMAOOO I also remember the packaging being super cool!! Man time flies
@@lilveltheplayer2164Yo finally I found someone like me the main menu scared me to death lmao. Everytime I saw the house just sitting there breathing creeped me the fuck out
50:26 She's a 'giantess'. He would have run out of funds to finish the house if he'd successfully gotten someone to take her body out, and that was an _absurd_ distance to drop (possibly exaggerated for effect, but even so, dropping far enough to die on impact is dropping far enough that contractors are entitled to go "yikes, nah").
And that's _without_ factoring in "oh, she _is_ the house now." In the years since, anyone even misstepping onto the lawn was in trouble. Hiring people to come in and retrieve her body at that point would have been a moot try.
One of my favorite childhood movies and I loved the game on the PS2 since its setting was mostly set in the house (that was somehow the size of a mansion) and they used water guns as weapons against the possessed furniture 😂 They also had "Thou Art Dead" as an arcade game in-game.
I had the Gameboy game they made for it, which was the same style too lol.
Trust me, the game is scarier than the movie.
@@derykjames620 dealing with those pipes as Chower was honestly the scariest parts of the game for me. They sometimes just come out of nowhere and suck you up lol.
The childhood memory i have about this movie is the very first time I went to hardees they happened to have monster house toys and I remember getting one that was the house maze with a metal little ball inside it and you had to maneuver it around
@@lMystic-wait, yooo, SAME! I remember that! I also had the crane with Chowder in it!
I love Monster House! Another hidden gem: Hoodwinked! The animation isn't all that (would benefit from an update) but the characters are memorable and the story was fun and interesting!
Halloween? Try "Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers," "The Birds" and "Fallen!"
The best part is the Goat
@@Hanmacx 🎵Be prepaaaaared
Be prepaaaaared
This lesson must be shaaaaaared🎵
😂👍
The sequel... not so much.
@@unclelink What sequel?
@@Paranuui there is a sequel to Hoodwinked, "Hood vs Evil."
In answer to your question of why Nebbercracker never just built a fence around the house:
If you consider the traumatic fact that Constance spent much of her life in a cage, I don't think Nebbercracker had it in his heart to "cage" her like that, even in her new form as the house itself. Plus given her highly aggressive behavior, he didn't want to get her upset and simply stuck to signs and physically charging at anyone who came within reach of the house.
Also, in answer to why they didn't just move Constance instead of leaving her in the basement, I'm pretty sure she was a reclusive individual and wouldn't have wanted her remains to be moved from the one place that made her happy. Plus between the time she died to the present time of 1983 when this takes place, Her soul was probably already attached to the foundation of the house. So Nebbercracker has been "chained" to this place ensuring his wife doesn't bring harm to anyone around her; and vice versa.
I think because the last thing he did was promise Constance that he would never let anyone "hurt her" (which she emphasized that the house was "part of her") he could never leave except during the times she "rested," which was when he'd resupply and such.
And as for building the cage around her remains, it could have been to help "recreate" the happy memory of when they met. Every detail that Nebbercracker commits to doesn't seem convenient or sensible, but given the little we have to go by his wife and her unfortunate curse-like circumstances (not to mention the era they come from) it's not totally wrong in what he tried to do.
I've always thought she immediately took control of the house upon her death, so attempting to remove the remains even when the house wasn't fully built could potentially kill someone.
Fun fact, the only safe place inside the house is the bathrooms Because if anything comes to life in there, the water pipes will break and the house will drown itself from the inside out.
Ohh really? 😮
Is that canon or a theory?
Laughs in the game
30:50 This was always my favorite part of the movie simply because it's just random and that face he makes while eating the candy.🤣
Thats where the meme is from❤
40:50 okay but honestly hearing it put this way makes the recent wave of popularity in analog horror and social media based ARG's make SO much sense (And if you guys like horror, you should TOTALLY do some reactions. Some of them are incredible, local 58, mandela catalogue, vita carnis, & wyoming incident, the sun vanished, and cicada 3301 as examples for both respectively). Not only is there technology at the protagonists finger tips in these situations, but it's sometimes being used against them or is in general a piece of the puzzle, and the fact the horror CAN be documented, but is being shut down in some way, is part of what's so frightening. Modern problems require modern solutionns
Monster House is a classic and fav for me! (Even though they look like Spirit Halloween decorations) Thank you SO MUCH for reacting to it! I watch it EVERY Halloween.
We need more animated horror movies, this one is so special for me cuz i never seen a movie so unique on its tone , i need some movie like this again SO BAD
I know this isn't animated, but I would like something similar to the 90s Goosebumps show.
48:53 ok let's say Nebbercracker actually built a fence, nothing's gonna stop Constance from picking up the fence and hurting kids with it, plus it would have to be connected to the other fences, which would then give her more to work with
45:40 Fun fact: If you look closely when he steps out of the ambulance it’s on the driver’s side. This man joyrided the ambulance to save children 🫡
Rip Fred Willard 1933-2020
The actor who played Nebbercracker his name is Steve Buscemi he was a New York City Firefighter from 1980 to 1984 with Eugene Company Number 55, the the Little Italy section of New York, the day after the September 11 attack in New York, he returned to his old firehouse to volunteer, he worked twelve hour shifts for a week and dug through rubble looking for missing firefighters, On May 25 2003 Buscemi was arrested wing 19 other people while protesting the closing of a number of firehouses, including Eugine 55
@Bryan McDonough Who Is Fred Willard?
@@iso-didact789 he voiced the dad in this movie
He voiced Melvin in Chicken Little
He was in WALL-E
He was in Family Matters, Roseanne, Sister Sister, King of the Hill, Hey Arnold,
He played Hank MacDougall in Everybody Loves Raymond
He played Frank Dunphy in Modern Family
He voiced Grandpa Murphy in Milo Murphy's Law
and last He voiced Pop Pop in The Loud House
@@BryanMcdonough Who was he in walle?
@@iso-didact789 Fred Willard
@@BryanMcdonough No I mean who was Fred Willard in walle.
So something pretty interesting that was in the bonus content of Monster House's DVD, they actually expanded on Skull's (The "Expert") trivia knowledge of Domus Mactibilis.
Apparently there are some mythological stories based on it where homes would usually be possessed by the vengeful soul of it's inhabitants; specifically in Greek mythology. They were generally people who were ruthless, tyrannical, and reclusive, usually resulting in becoming the house itself to devour anyone who came within reach. The thing is they were at a stage where they were identified as "golem" or something that wasn't quite at a dangerous level.
It was only when they'd consumed enough souls did they alter to a "demon" stage where their soul could never be saved, and they'd become a mindless creature who only sought to satiate it's hunger.
In one story, a Domus Mactibilis that was possessed by a particularly vicious ruler had been infiltrated by a team of villagers who decided to defeat it once and for all before it could kill more unfortunate souls that passed by. It was through their mission to defeat it that they'd left behind the knowledge of dousing the heart (or any source of heat/energy) to bring it down.
***Had TJ and the gang not helped Nebbercracker defeat Constance before she'd gotten a full taste of blood (since she failed to digest her victims in time), there was a high chance she would have turned and forgotten all about who she was, too.
Monster House lore goes hard
This movie is my childhood, I don't have enough hands to count how many times I've watched it
My personal favorite scenes from this movie would the plot twist backstory and the ending where Mr. Nebbercracker thanks the kids and returns the kids' belongings
Man, this movie is so nostalgic for me. My first scary movie, and I love all of the weirdness and the fact it ran with it. Glad you all enjoyed it!
I really wish they had made like show after this movie. Of dj, chowder, and Jenny being like mystery solvers of supernatural cases. Going to school, visiting mr. nevercracker. Jenny dating DJ.
bro they luckly survived against a giant house , that's enough trauma to dont't get envolved on super natural stuff
Or Mars Needs Moms, but better, more mean, and suspenseful.
Spiderwick Chronicles was also surprisingly intense for a kids movie.
Having it animated in motion capture would make it extra great
As motion capture has its uncanny valley, it can work in it's favor.
I remember watching this in the theater and thinking "this is the most realistic animation I have ever seen" and looking at it now it's like "oof, that mocap is pretty janky."
Yeah same haha. Honestly it's not horrible though, especially compared to something like Polar Express. This will never happen, but this is actually a Movie i would love to see remade, make the animation not mocap and also add a few more scenes that got cut
@@TheDiamondSlayer1ok, the Polar Express is not that bad
This and Paranorman are two of my favorite animated Halloween movies
(Yes, Coraline is good but I was spoiled by the fact the book is way better).
Okay now I NEED them to react to paranorman bruh I love that movie 😭
Sure, but the movie is still just as good. But the book is more... creepy with imagery, but the lack of 'character' interaction is something that hinders the book somewhat.
I'd actually argue that the movie was better than the book, especially with how it utilized the Other Mother. In the book, she didn't do much to hide the fact that she was a monster (she was already looking like the stretched-out, skeletal version of Coraline's mom, when she first appeared).
MONSTER HOUSE!? Yes! An unexpected reaction but a welcome one.
Yea 😂 awesome
My favorite movies
God I haven’t seen monster house in a hot minute, so you guys just not having any real cuts to this, this is a real treat.
Did anyone catch the "My mom's at the movies with her personal trainer" from Chowder 😂 implying his mom is cheating
🤣
Fun Fact: this movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature along side Pixar's Cars, but lost to Happy Feet.
Oh lord this movie 😭😭 I love watching y’all’s reactions but my little sister watched this movie 2x a day for like a year she was obsessed 😂 I’ll power through it for y’all 😂😂
I just have this movie cemented in my memory because when I was little, like probably 6ish, the first time I ever snuck out of bed at night was to go to my living room and watch Monster House alone, and I remember feeling so proud afterward that it didn’t freak me out
Seriously one of the most underrated Halloween movies. Through all its cliches, it's charming and has great humor and adult jokes in it.
Now we need people to recommend them with “My Scary Godmother” Another Cartoon Network Classic for the Halloween setting imo
My grandmother was my baby sitter. She was OBSESSED with the sci-fi channel and anything Stephen king and horror so I grew up on that shit now I straight up practice witch craft 😂 may she RIP cuz she was the GOAT of spooky stuff 🤧✨❤️🔥
1:00:32 Chowder 3rd wheeling like crazy. Appreciate DJ not rubbing his nose in it.😅
I want the doorbell sound effect from the "Ding-Dong Ditch" scene as a ringtone so bad
The fact they said they didnt know Steven Spielberg was involved in making this after them seeing the Amblin logo and talking about ET made me face palm as a movie nerd 😂
It’s hilarious. You didn’t know that it was Steve Buscemi until the near end.
36:19 Freeze Tree. For some reason this quote and the direct aftermath is still one of the funniest things from this movie to me.
Monster House is such an underrated Halloween classic. Every year in October I find myself watching it again almost 20 years later with my friends.
I have a tradition of saving this movie for only Halloween time... It just fits around that time... So I only watch it once a year... but I've seen it so many times I can recite lines....
I don't know if you guys are watching this on DVD, but I remember having it as a kid. The home screen was literally just the house with creepy ambiance, but you sit for too long the house would wake up and jumpscare you.
Thank you for reacting❤❤, when I was a child this movie scared me a lot which is why it was one of my favorites and I rewatched it a lot, because of it I used to be scared at night but now I rewatch it and have fun😂😂.
Absolutely loved this movie as a kid! Such an underrated work of art! Absolutely love your guys videos and reactions to these childhood gems! Can't wait to see what Halloween movies you have in store! I recommend Goosebumps the movie with Jack Black! Also Corpse Bride, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands, Hocus Pocus and Scooby Doo and The Boo Brothers and Scooby Doo and the Reluctant Werewolf! Perfect variety of Halloween movies 😁 🎃
This was one of my FAVORITE movies to put on for Halloween, the only thing that put me off from playing it was the terrifying DVD selection screen…God it was so unnerving and I’d be too afraid to get near the DVD player
Love how there are two versions of a sentient house most notably (that i remember/know)
The 'horror' trauma house in monster house, and the _other_ nice trauma house in encanto.
Funny how they were both built in relation to a dead spouse, just in different circumstance
Both protecting their loves, but in honestly vastly different solutions.
One scares anyone away from it's resident as protection (i believe?) - and the other gave to the family and community to save both.
Difference is how the gone spouses were treated and perished.
This was a gem of a movie I watched as a kid and glad more people are finding said gem. Definitely a good start to the October horror vibes
This is not the first video I've seen from your channel, but the extended discussion of basketball prices and how Chowder earned the money was the moment I decided to subscribe.
My take -- Chowder ABSOLUTELY got 20 cents per raked yard, and then got a dollar from his Mom 26 times. It's a classic Dan Harmon joke, wouldn't be out of place on Community.
Paranorman is another surprisingly good one. I picked up the DVD on a whim and I loved it
This movie definitely one of those that funny to watch at least once a year.
According to Wikipedia, this movie takes place in 1983
god this movie was my childhood, shit used to come on cartoon network during Halloween
There was a video game based on the movie for the GameCube and I remember playing it when I was a kid.
There was also one for the PS2, had that when I was a kid
I still got PS2
When they are debating what to do with the body covered with the cement did they forgot that she was a property of the circus and the man kinda stole her away from the circus and could land himself in jail.
Hey, thanks for the sticker ads beside horror movies. Seriously, they help divert attention.
"This is nerve-racking. Pay attention to this ad for a quick moment."
Whenever I get asked what’s my favorite movie I always say Monster House. I remember making a fort as a kid with pillows and blankets and watching it every time it came on tv. I’ve had to have watched this movie like over 15 times i had an obsession 😭
im really liking having fourth member in your reaction video and its really fun to see you guys discussion on various topic
Bro this was my childhood movie also this is the one I was terrified to watch but at the same time curious.
50:54 I mean, Nebercracker did commit a crime in taking Constance away from the circus technically. He wanted to build a life with her away from people probably not to be so easily recognized. If they would have been found out he may have been arrested and she’d go back to the circus. Once she died if he’d have retrieved her body he would have needed help. That’s being publicity, attention, people would know that it was her and they’d wonder what’d happened. He’d have been in more trouble than he already was.
I had a fair number of babysitters growing up. Most of them are relatives or my grandmother's friends whenever I stayed the weekends with her because she had a gabling habit.😂 My mom don't left me home a few times but she neglected to tell me the first time had to turn off our house alarm and I was seven So the cops came over. I pretty much got left alone to myself more often after I turned Twelve , but I also had to play babysitter with my younger sisters and at least a few times for cousins who were younger than me.
Paranorman is goated and not talked about enough. Yall should definitely watch that, I LOVE that movie. AND it’s stop motion
I love how the 2003 bad cgi makes this look more scary
the ground eats the fence like it eats the sings
Now that I'm older, I can see that the basement probably wasn't that far of a drop since they were on the ground floor. So she definitely WAS alive when she landed, it's just the concrete was so close behind her that it didn't matter.
You guys should definitely watch the behind the scenes of this! This was also filmed using motion capture.
this movie scared the shit out of me as a kid! i remember i had a painting of a house in my bedroom right across from my bed and the night after i watched the movie i made my dad take it off the wall because looking at it in the dark freaked me out and i couldn't sleep!
Really glad that everyone enjoy this underrated movie. Hope that 9 (2009) is on the list for this Halloween. To me it is always worth the watch.
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With the fence she could’ve taken the fence away as we’ve seen her sink objects into the ground
This is one of the movies that I would watch on a weekly basis as a kid because we owned it on DVD. I could probably recite every line of this movie from memory 😂
Right along side scary godmother this movie tops one of my favorite childhood October movies ever, literally watched this every time it came on to Cartoon Network 😌
I love this movie, I’m very happy you guys decided to watch this amazing underrated movie, it’s one of my favorite childhood movies and it’s nice to see that you enjoyed it. And fun fact: this movie gave some kids nightmares because this movie is considered a horror movie for children.
Its not really that underrated anymore, its very popular the past couple of years.
@@Jason-..- That’s great if that’s true, I personally haven’t seen anyone talk about it but I’m glad that’s not the case apparently.
@@silvaguy7059 well, just by looking at the amount of reaction videos indicates that people still remember this amazing film
Oh I love this movie I’m so glad y’all reacting to it
I think the main reason he doesn’t put up a fence is because it would remind her of the cage that she was in. However, I still wonder how the hell did no one else hear what was going on
Fun fact - Cement can burn skin, it has a high PH level
💙🧡💜I love how you paused the movie just to attempt to solve an math equation based on pure speculation. 🤣
I find it absolutely hilarious that this was freeking you out but it is a staple Halloween movie for me since i was younger. However Coraline scares the shit out of me, but yall said it was nothing. 😂
Just found this channel and I would like to point out how Boom, made the same Uvula/Vulva joke.
"You make me want to throw up in tin foil and eat it!" The most random thing I ever heard when I first saw this 😂.
I actually think they actually filled their water guns with pee I always thought.
That's why the house gagged
I remember monster house. I used to watch that movie all the time! It has a good plot and such a plot twist!
This movie terrified me when I was a kid, I loved it
When i was a kid, this movie was the most fucking scarier thing i've ever seen. I literally couldn't finished it without closing my eyes or getting out of my room. I love this shit.
Seeyoni: "So is it like a house full of monsters."
Oh, Seeyoni. You have no idea.
I love how we were to believe that Nebercracker possessed the house after he died. But it was his wife who was the house all along. What a twist!
Really great
My olny true criticism is the lack of background characters, and therefore their reactions from the ending fight.
Did not see this react coming. Loved Monster House when I was a kid, as well as the tie-in game.
This is gonna be a fun one.
Oh I remember back when I first watched it when it first came out
Do you know what I'm still baffled by?
At the end of the movie, Constance, or rather her spirit in the house, gets up and starts chasing Mr. Nebbercracker and the kids across the neighborhood, which eventually leads to a massive explosion. Now, mind you, this all happens on early Halloween night.
*How the fuckin hell did no one else notice a gigantic literal monster house roaming the streets?!*
Again, this all happened on Halloween. And unlike prior to the rest of the movie, the house is actually moving! You seriously mean to tell me a group of kids in costumes or someone who was giving out candy didn't see anything? Bull. Shit!
After this movie and Coraline, theres never going to be any spooky movies with a twist for kids😢
15:35 "hello Misses Monster House"
why do these guys keep telling the future
This is one of the best Kid Horror movies of all time.
Apparently my first and only babysitter made me sniff acetone so would i pass out and when my parents came home they would think i was asleep and when she got arrested she said in front of the police the very next day she was gonna make me drink it,i was just a couple months old
That’s horrifying and I hope she went to jail and had that on her record. She should banned from going near children.
I once had a babysitter nearly choke me to death with tissues because I couldn't stop crying.
The era in monster house takes place in november 1991
I just remember something. In the old series of Courage, the coward dog, once there was a man who moved into Nowhere, but the supernatural stuff wasn't the man, it was his house, which was alive. In the end Courage calms the house by fixing it.
The fact that Chowder didn't die is what makes it a movie still for kids lol
I have heard that the original script made Constance and Nebbecracker's 45 year entrapment even more sad
I have this movie on DVD. In the special features menu was an epic trailer for the movie Final Fantasy VII Advent Children.
1:04:10 poor Gordy
I've been twaumatized
Plus this movie and scary godmother have been the got to Halloween movies for cartoon network