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Monster House

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Official Site: Sony Pictures

Monster House is a 2006 computer animated horror/comedy, film released on July 21, 2006 produced by ImageMovers and Amblin Entertainment, and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Executive produced by Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg, this is the first time since Back to the Future Part III that they have worked together. It is also the first time that Zemeckis and Spielberg both served as executive producers of a film. The film's characters are animated primarily utilizing performance capture, making it the second film to use the technology so extensively, following producer Robert Zemeckis' The Polar Express.

DJ Walters (Mitchel Musso) is a pre-teen boy, who spends much of his time spying on his irritable neighbor, Mr. Nebbercracker, (Steve Buscemi), who is known to take any item that lands on his yard. DJ's dentist parents (Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara) leave town for the weekend for their convention, leaving him in the care of Elizabeth "Zee", (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who appears to be a kind teenager, but is later revealed to be an arrogant punk girl.

Charles "Chowder" (Sam Lerner), DJ's best friend, loses his basketball on Nebbercracker's lawn after the two play basketball. DJ tries to recover it but is caught by Nebbercracker, who eventually loses consciousness. His house then is shown to become alive as a result for its owner's apparent death. DJ's babysitter arrives, who proceeds to show her arrogance to him along with her ex-boyfriend, Bones, who tortures DJ.

That night, DJ receives phone calls from Nebbercracker's house, with a mysterious, non human sound. He calls Chowder about his curiosity with the house and decide that they should meet up. DJ eavesdrops Bones having lost his kite when he was younger at Nebbercracker's lawn as well, where later on he eventually retrieves it but is captured by the house. DJ and Chowder then proceed to investigate Nebbercracker's house's mysterious nature. After Chowder's attempts to prove that the house is fine, it eventually animates to life and almost eats him and scares away the two upon its alive, monstrous form.

Monster House has not been a contender in any CBUB matches.