''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
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.
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)
@@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. 🤷♀️😁
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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 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”.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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 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 ^^
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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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 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.
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!
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.
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!
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 😌
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.
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. 🤔
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
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.
I honestly loved the idea of the House having things like the trees as limbs. This movie terrified me as a kid and I hold a soft spot in my heart for this movie, despite its flaws
Ahh... I used to love this movie as a kid and I still do. I remember once when I was in 1st or 2nd grade I drew the house (in monster form, like the thumbnail of this video) in one of my school books and the teacher was so creeped out she talked to my parents about it LMAO
rewatched it for the first time in decades and it still holds up and now that i’m older im catching a lot of the adult jokes that flew by me when i was younger
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.
Has anyone else noticed how much Constance physically *changes* the house over the course of the movie?? Barring her spiky, post-fall form, she gradually rips the house apart, I mean, you can see her “jaws” *tearing* the porch roof and porch floor apart to eat the police car!! (as shown in this clip at 6:11) She even makes the house so much more monstrous than she has to just so she can scare DJ and Chowder when they look back after their first run in with her!!
this review really put out nearly exactly why I enjoyed this movie so much. it seemed like such a casual project made from a great pitch and what the people had for the time. despite the obvious horror/thriller genre and the depressing moments, its such a cozy movie to watch knowing that it was considered a pretty alright movie by pretty much everyone. I've honestly never met a person who said "no" to Monster House on any day.
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?!
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 😔
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.
The fact that you just said you haven’t watched Polar Express when you like these movies so much is mind-blowing. Pleeease watch that when you get in the festive mood
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.
Man, that movie is fueling my brain with nostalgia everytime i remember it, it makes me want to watch it again sometimes just because of the sheer love i have for it. I even remember that, in spanish (i'm from latam so i watched it in spanish), there's this dialogue that's different, when they're inside the house and they find the uvula "that's the uvula" "*gasp* she's monstruating" Gets me every single time.
“Not traumatizing” 😂 tell that to my child self who went into full blown panic attacks any time an ad came on Tv for it or someone played anything related to it. I can recall hiding under a table crying my eyes out the one time. 😅 I would say.. pretty traumatizing LOL.
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.
''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.
Especially when you see that after they take the old man to the hospital, the fire, the heart of the house starts itself
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
@@_holy__ghost
Yeah I'm pretty sure Nebercracker straight up says that's the case in his little flashback segment.
This is canon, in fact its directly stated and basically the most important plot point of the movie so I'm not sure how dazz missed that but oh well.
@@tonyshum5569
Bro! You're not even saying anything! Are you a bot?
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.
The house is a girl?
@@ragnard0967 Yes, I know.
@@chadderbug7587 did you got it?
@@ragnard0967 I got it
@@ragnard0967 *"So it's a girl house."*
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)
Oh God, I never realized that she was actually holding him using the grass when he had a Heart attack
Nebbercracker*
Dont worry i used to think it was nevercracker too
Welp, gotta rewatch that clip
The house is on Denial, you can see the clip of the house before it shifted to the fireplace
You can see the house are frowning and look concerned
This movie is so underrated. It’s mo cap is actually super impressive, it’s creepy, it’s sad, it’s funny, and it’s very creative. Truly a classic!
In order to be a hero you gotta look like a villain
If only it had a sequel, I don't know what the plot would be but it would be cool :D
@@GengarFan1997 that's the thing. what could possibly surpass the first?
@@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. 🤷♀️😁
The wife’s death scene terrified me as a kid, falling down with the cement covering her at the bottom 😰
Yeah, Imagine breaking your back being probably paralyzed and with her obesity too, but not only that being buried and drowned in cement is fucked up
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.
@@Nighlocktheawesome00 he was out cold?
@@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.
@@Nighlocktheawesome00 thanks for making that worse 💀
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
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.
@@stuntboy0372 that said, I’d assume the only reason is because they feel DJ is responsible for Nevercracker going to the hospital.
Nebbercracker* lol
It is because the house see him as the source why nebbercracker got Rushed into hospital
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
The "Girl House" and "Uvula" joke went STRAIGHT over my head as a kid. To be fair, Chowder WAS right about the house being female.
I don’t get the uvula joke
@@miketrapper0464 female anatomy
@@sanguineregis5354 i still don’t get it
@@miketrapper0464 uvula, uterus, to a kid those are gonna sound pretty similar.
@@sanguineregis5354 ah i see
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
For me, it was a fear of abandoned buildings.
@@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.
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.
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.
Did it win?
@@MASTEROFEVIL No, it lost to Happy Feet.
@@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
I was obsessed with this movie as a kid, absolutely one of my favourites.
This movie probably sparked my love for horror
Same man! I was absolutely obsessed with this movie as a kid, truly a classic
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
Is Horris Mr Nevercrackers first name? I didn’t know this lol.
i think it is but i could be wrong lmao
@@adventurekitty1016 I always thought it was Horace Nevercracker
@@EkoBahamut it IS! Horace
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.
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...
This really sounds like some shit you'd see in "Hellraiser", that is just insane.
This movie is definitely underrated. And surprisingly mature, too. The House's origin still unnerves me.
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”.
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.
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 really feel like Tinybuild would benefit from taking notes from these kid horror films if they make another attempt at a Hello neighbor tv series.
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
I found this movie more sad and heartbreaking than anything when I first watched it.
I just love the houses design. I was obsessed with this movie as a kid and still love it to this day.
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.
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.
The reason that the house calls him is because He's been watching and Nevercracker's heart attack was caused by him
Childhood film right here
Same
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.
A good starting point for kids getting into Horror
I remember this is one of those children horror films that scared the crap outta me the most when I was a kid
OMG I love this move so much it gave my nightmares for years and I love it for all of that
I remember watching this movie often every weekend and during October - November in cartoon channels.
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.
As for what happened on previous Halloween nights, Horace was there to yell at the kids to leave
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 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
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 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 ^^
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!
That scene in the room when the shadow attacked him, that always scared me
my family LOVED this movie. my dad decorated our house to look like the monster house every halloween for like a decade haha
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.
Watched this film at my granddad's and was scared but also found it hilarious
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.
More of the house is “flushed out” via the ps2 tie in game. It was a decent game for the most part
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 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.
5:35 I remember when i rewatched the movie back in 2018 and saw that scene again, i was like "Well yes but actually no..."
the only thing that terrified me from this movie was mr. nebercracker himself. every time this played i always skipped the firs few minutes
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
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 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.
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!
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.
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!
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 😌
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.
This movie always felt like it should have been full stop motion to me
Dude this was so amazingly terrifying when I was young. I would watch this over and over.
I watched this on Halloween. It definitely deserves more credit for being so unique.
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. 🤔
This movie is a masterpiece for me, everything gets explained in time if you pay attention.
In case you didn't know, this movie was made as an homage to 80's monster movies, hell, the movie even takes place in the 80's
This movie unnerved me more than almost any adult horror movie I've watched
When I was a kid I was scared of the main menu of this movie so much that I had slept under the bed. True story
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
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.
I honestly loved the idea of the House having things like the trees as limbs. This movie terrified me as a kid and I hold a soft spot in my heart for this movie, despite its flaws
Gave me Evil Dead vibes
Monster house is a fantastic movie. It's so underrated and the monsterhouse herself is just so cool looking.
Ahh... I used to love this movie as a kid and I still do.
I remember once when I was in 1st or 2nd grade I drew the house (in monster form, like the thumbnail of this video) in one of my school books and the teacher was so creeped out she talked to my parents about it LMAO
This movie had a game on the PS2. 10/10 terrified me as a kid.
rewatched it for the first time in decades and it still holds up and now that i’m older im catching a lot of the adult jokes that flew by me when i was younger
I do feel it’s kind of underrated.
Seeing this as a kid is what ignited my love for horror movies
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.
Nah this was a top tier childhood movie especially for it’s time
I'd really like for this movie to talk about more so this video brings me joy. Thank you
Has anyone else noticed how much Constance physically *changes* the house over the course of the movie?? Barring her spiky, post-fall form, she gradually rips the house apart, I mean, you can see her “jaws” *tearing* the porch roof and porch floor apart to eat the police car!! (as shown in this clip at 6:11) She even makes the house so much more monstrous than she has to just so she can scare DJ and Chowder when they look back after their first run in with her!!
this review really put out nearly exactly why I enjoyed this movie so much. it seemed like such a casual project made from a great pitch and what the people had for the time. despite the obvious horror/thriller genre and the depressing moments, its such a cozy movie to watch knowing that it was considered a pretty alright movie by pretty much everyone. I've honestly never met a person who said "no" to Monster House on any day.
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?!
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 😔
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.
The fact that you just said you haven’t watched Polar Express when you like these movies so much is mind-blowing. Pleeease watch that when you get in the festive mood
“Don’t look back.”
“AHHHHH”
“What???!”
“I looked back!!”
Me and my sister loved this movie as kids and we’d watch it pretty regularly even when it wasn’t anywhere near Halloween. It’s definitely slept on.
Apparently the weird CG was done on purpose to create an uncanny valley effect.
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.
Man, that movie is fueling my brain with nostalgia everytime i remember it, it makes me want to watch it again sometimes just because of the sheer love i have for it.
I even remember that, in spanish (i'm from latam so i watched it in spanish), there's this dialogue that's different, when they're inside the house and they find the uvula
"that's the uvula"
"*gasp* she's monstruating"
Gets me every single time.
Honestly, Polar Express is a trip but I do love its aesthetic. The uncanny designs enhance the movie in my opinion.
Wow I saw this as a child and this just unlocked a memory. The main kid character for some reason
Oh I would love to see Dazs review of polar express this Christmas
personally the most nostalgic chrustmas movie of this generation'
“Not traumatizing” 😂 tell that to my child self who went into full blown panic attacks any time an ad came on Tv for it or someone played anything related to it. I can recall hiding under a table crying my eyes out the one time. 😅 I would say.. pretty traumatizing LOL.
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 absolutely loved this movie ever since i was little. I still remember being afraid of the opening scene
Dang I seen this movie when I was like five or something and almost forgot about it until I seen the thumbnail and nostalgia blasted me!
This movie was my childhood
Ironically I just finished rewatching this the other day
I think Monster House and Christmas Carol are the overall best ones from this studio.