Monster House was made in 2006 and Hotel Transylvania was made in 2012. While the dummy wouldn't fool anyone into thinking it was a trick-or-treater coming to their door, what with the broom acting as arms and its figure squatting on a vacuum, it seems to do the trick of fooling the house. Constance Nebbercracker, formerly known as Constance the Giantess, was the main antagonist of Monster House. There's not a lot of background information given on the town of Mayville until Mr. Nebbercracker's flashback takes place. Hi. The concept of a house animated by a malevolent force that eats people is included in King'sDark Tower book series. In his flashback, which takes place 45 years before the film's opening shot, Mayville is a virtually barren wasteland. Monster House Animation 2006 1 hr 30 min English audio PG CC Buy or rent Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster, and decide that. This article is about Nebbercracker's House as a location, for the article about it as the main antagonist of the film, see Constance Nebbercracker. When DJ's Nanny Zee's boyfriend Bones goes over to the house and starts kicking its grass, he gets swallowed by the house. It's my house, and they're HURTING ME! DJ's parents Mr. and Mrs. Walters leave town for the weekend for a dentist convention and leaving him in the care of Zee. She then possessed the now-finished house to accompany Mr. Nebbercracker for 45 years. The house then pick them one by one after spotting the kids before they find the place to hide. Sharp-eyed viewers will realize that Skull is Reginald Skulinski, the pizza delivery guy who gives the kids the lowdown on Nebbercracker's house. She was once an unwilling member of a circus freak show until Horace Nebbercracker saved her, falling in love and later becoming Nebbercracker's housewife. Constance plummets into the basement, where she gets covered in cement. Monster House, original name Constance Nebbercracker, is the main antagonist of the 2006 animated movie, Monster House. After Donnie's sister Elizabeth gets the news that she's gotten into Harvard, she and Donnie decide to throw a Halloween party in celebration while their parents are away. When she got frustrated and scared everyone away A slim recreation of Mrs. Nebbercracker. The chimney is set on the center of her head and her tree limbs are now located at the bottom of her body. Her legs are short with seemingly fat arms, giving her poor ability to reach, run or climb. Mr. Nebbercracker tells her to look at him and tries to convince her he will not let anyone hurt her. When Jenny attempts to assure him that everyone has a uvula, Chowder asserts, "Not me," still not understanding the mix-up. The DVD menu for the movie. DJ finally convinces Mr. Nebbercracker that it's time to let go of his attachment to his wife-possessed house but Constance doesn't take this development in stride. The kids managed to escape but are trapped inside the house as they witness the houses interior revert back to normal. The house remains still until morning, though DJ and Chowder continue to watch it from DJs room for hours even with Zees interference and resort to peeing in bottles, so they wont miss any of the possessed houses activities. It's implied that he maintains a ledger of these confiscated items, leading him to conclude that Mr. Nebbercracker has taken 49 baseballs to date. WARNING: The following tab will reveal the numbers of wins and losses for the following character. Early drafts of the film revealed concepts for Constance's character that were not used due to be deemed too disturbing and to keep the rating: The interior of the house possessed by Constance was warped that it resembled much more interior of human organs. From what Chowder says, his mother seems to have gone way beyond fitness with her personal trainer, into the romantically-coded realm of the movies. They are unaware that they have unleashed the terror on their housing complex. She was a obese woman who did not want to work in a circus freak show. Afterward, while DJ sneaks away, Bones (who had lost his kite when he was 10 years old) expresses his anger and sadness over his stolen kite on Nebbercracker's house by damaging the lawn. Aware that the old man cannot do that forever, DJ convinces Nebbercracker to put her out of her misery as this is the better way. So, they schemed a plan to make a dummy full of cold medicine, hoping that the drugs were enough to render the house sleeping. In her final form, Constance is completely demolished but quickly assembles her broken pieces into an even more menacing form. While DJ, Jenny, and Chowder are drawing up their plans, a quick close-up of the markers they use shows what brand DJ's parents keep handy: "Sir Sniff-A-Lot." It's Halloween." Whilst managing to calm the house down, Nebbercracker laments over the fact that he has failed to keep his wife's wrath from hurting others and turning her into what she is now a true monster. Despite being the main villain in both the movie and the game boy advance and the Nintendo GameCube versions, Constance does not appear in the Nintendo DS game version. As Monster Houseborrows heavily from frightful fare of the '80s, a mighty decade for the prolific author, a few references to the King of Horror feel especially right at home. Aware with what she has become, Mr. Nebbercracker was forced to pretend to be a child hater to save their lives. However, the officers were not the sole target as it had the trees to grab the police car and devouring it into its mouth inside along with the children. Constance only likes mr nebbercracker because he is the only one who treats her better but doesnt like him when he trying to stop her from giving revenge on the children who are making fun of her however, after her spirit was free from the house she then let go of her bad past. Opposites attract, we suppose, even when it comes to bandmates. While Jenny and DJ find the monster house's human-like anatomy fascinating, Chowder doesn't fully grasp the spectacle within. DJ and Chowder are horrified by this, thinking Mr. Nebbercracker had died. In the end, all the house's victims were revealed to be alive as well as they crawl out of the house's foundations. Just then, Constance, whoalready set her sights on Jenny, possesses the porch, making the planks below her to rise and lead her to her mouth, only to be thwarted by Zee and the boys' interference. Upon closer inspection, gamers might just notice something familiar about the gothic side-scroller. Constance Nebbercracker: "Hurt? "Aah! Thinking that it may be a trick, he tries to call the house itself, only for no one to answer him. This pays homage to the iconic scene inStanley Kubrick's adaption ofThe Shining, when Danny Torrance rides his big wheel tricycle through the halls of the Overlook Hotel. Not only that, she was forced to sleep . Officer Lester taunts the tree, which suddenly, prompt it to move and grab his leg. Despite Monster House having a PG rating, the film contains a fair amount of substance use. In terms of backstory, Constance is similar with Onryos in mythology (includes restless souls such as. You hooligans! That night, she possesses the telephone in her house (off-screen) and calls DJ through telephone. As with the other characters, Jenny was animated by Troy Saliba, DJ Hauck, and John J. Meehan, designed by Chris Appelhans, and sculpted by Leo Rijn, while Spencer Locke, her voice actress, served as her peformance . A little girl named Eliza rides her tricycle around the neighborhood, singing along, but she hits the lawn and as she tries to get out, Horace Nebbercracker snaps and takes the tricycle and removes the wheel to tempt her to go away. Monster House is a 2006 American computer-animated haunted house film [3] directed by Gil Kenan in his directorial debut and written by Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler, about a neighborhood being terrorized by a sentient haunted house during Halloween. She also has extra-large ones to give a powerful bite. At The Smell." DJ was happy he did not make the old man be killed, but only crippled him instead. Early drafts of the film revealed concepts for Constance's character that were not used due to be deemed too disturbing and to keep the rating: The interior of the house possessed by Constance was warped that it resembled much more interior of human organs. The door (the mouth) suddenly opens, revealing its interior's fractures, and shifts into a mouth-like cavern. Nebbercracker was at first furious after he had discovered the truth, but eventually relents and tells them both his and Constance's story. The trees uproot and attach to her roof allowing her to walk, her wooden teeth become more pronounced, and her eyes are now a fiery orange color. While Thou Art Dead only appears in the movie for a brief scene, it did become playable in theMonster House video games. Mr. Nebbercracker was at first furious after he had discovered the truth, but eventually relents and tells them both his and Constance's story. Hopefully, Mayville's schools have decent health classes that will eventually set Chowder straight. The horrified Chowder is then chased by the house's rug that act like a chameleon's tongue, and barely escape. Unfortunately, Officer Landers and Officer Lister interfere, and upon seeing objects that they used to render the house asleep, they wrongfully arrest the kids. Mr. Nebbercracker and Constance in 1960 on the day she died. The original Castlevania game was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, and has the player take on the role of a skilled vampire hunter making his way through Dracula's castle. ". While later games feature varied styles of gameplay and differing narratives, the foundation of the Castlevania series remains easily recognizable. The only bits of foliage shown are a few modest tree sprouts in the lot's front yard and a few bushes next to the property. And from the sounds of it, the two are clandestinely meeting while her husband is tied up at work. Though he only appears for a couple minutes of screen time, one of the most off-kilter characters in Monster House is Mr. Walters, DJ's father. Early drafts of the film revealed concepts for Constance's character that were not used due to being deemed too disturbing and to keep the rating: The interior of the house possessed by Constance was warped that it resembled much more interior of human organs. However, she is no longer the same person that Mr. Nebbercracker once knew: Her hatred against children (which stem from their treatment back when she was still a circus member) has made her a tricky, but savage, bloodthirsty and murderous monster that tries to kill anything and anyone that approaches her except for Mr.Nebbercracker himself. Unfortunately, they're interrupted by the police. However, this plan is stalled when the house is dragged down the hill and it breaks apart as a result, leading to the heroes celebrating their apparent victory. His bones cracked in the process, causing him to fall unconscious on DJ's body. The way the house resembles a human is simple, the roof tiles are the hair, the windows are eyes, the door way is the mouth, the floorboards and timber are the teeth, the frame work is the skeleton, the blinds are eye lids, the light fitting is the uvula, the hole in the floor is the throat, the pipes are the organs like intestines or vanes, the furnace is the heart, the trees are the arms, the carpet is the tongue, the walls are the skin, the vents are the windpipe and lungs, the mains water is the blood, the electrical wiring is the nerves and spinel cord, the brain is possibly the attic, the basement is the stomach and so forth. But as he said so, the children continue to provoke her, prompting her to try and scare them away with an axe Mr. Nebbercracker was holding. Yet not a single one of them is shown during the chase scene. Constance and Nebbercracker in 1960 on the day she accidentally died due to her weight. The eyes have blinds similar to lids to express her emotions. DJ tries to calm him down, but this does not change Mr. Nebbercracker's mind to scare him further. However, the landscape in Nebbercracker's flashback looks incredibly different from the Mayville shown in the film's opening shot. I'm gonna rip them to bits. She was DJ's former arch-nemesis and Mr. Nebbercracker's wife. However, it's accidentally cracked open, revealing the skeleton underneath it. Her husband is the sole exception, the one person she does not attack and allows to get close. Another commonality is the chandelier hanging within the entryway, which serves as the uvula, or, as Jenny's refers to it, "nature's emergency exit.". NebbercrackerThe HouseMonster HouseOld Man Nebbercracker's HouseDomus Mactabillis (by Skull), DeceptionIntelligenceFull control over the House and propertySelf-reconstructionImmortality. But one Halloween some children decided to torment and laugh at her. I saw monster house in theaters as a 6th grader so I was basically the perfect demographic. Its overall appearance is more ferocious than its previous state, having several large boards protruding from its jaws. Three teenagers, DJ, Chowder and Jenny think that after mean old man Nebbercracker died from a heart attack at his house, they all think it's over, but they are wrong. She was a human performing as a "circus freak" in a circus until Horace Nebbercracker saved her and married her. While this seems like relatively uninteresting information on the surface, Chowder goes on to drop an attention-grabbing tidbit: His mom is at the movies with her personal trainer. Things suddenly became worse as the house reveals its true nature and devour OfficerLandersalive while sadistically playing with OfficerLesterthat it grabbed through branches before eventually tossed him into its mouth. As DJ, Jenny, and Chowder make their decoy dummy to feed to the house, they decide to use a pair of sweatpants, some old shoes, a vacuum cleaner, a broom, a letterman jacket, and the monster mask Chowder was wearing earlier in the film. This is however a great mistake; due to his elderly age, he forgot that his body could no longer endure the boy's weight and he had a heart attack at the same time. Immediately, this title bears a striking resemblance to Konami's Castlevania series. All of his bad deeds on the children were merely ruse to keep them away from his wife's wrathful spirit after the latter's accidental murder by bullies and because of it, he was forced to become a child hater so Constance, now as the possessed house and wrathful spirit, won't be able to destroy and consume everything on her path. What Shows Have Been Renewed or Canceled. Contents 1 Role in the Film 1.1 The House Awakens 1.2 Meeting Jenny Bennett 1.3 Planning to Kill the House 1.4 Exploring the House 1.5 Final Fight Everything seems normal, until Chowder pressed the bell, where the house awakened. While DJ's spying habit is framed as a bit odd, taking a closer look at his dedication to keeping tabs on his neighbor through adult eyes is quite troubling. constance hates chowder as much she hates DJ and Jenny, in fact the two of them mock each other back and forth throughout the movie. DJ was happy that he didn't cause the old man to be killed, but only crippled him instead. When Constance sees this, she proceeds to possess his kite within the basement, and uses it to lure Bones into the house. They discovered Bones' empty bottle but dismissed it and toss it aside, unaware that the possessed grass on the lawn pulled it underground. When Mr. Nebbercracker was immediately brought to the hospital, Constance immediately awakened from her years of slumber. Having become part of the foundation, she possessed and physically became the house, her anger unyielding even after all these years. He then approaches his house which becomes possessed again, but somewhat became gentle to him. Before they could drive away, the house groans on them, luring both the police officers closer. They both loved their husbands so much before they perished (Constance died while building the house and Martha was killed by enraged humans). DJ and Chowder then return to DJs room with Jenny to continue the investigation. Whether this was true or not (or merely speculated), her size disgusted many people,even children whom made fun of her in an extreme manner. Bones throws a label-less bottle at the house, which makes it clear that he was drinking beer before crossing the street. The children managed to escaped, but is trapped inside the house as they witness the house's interior revert back to normal. In her first appearance, she wore a green dress with white flowers and heels. However her spirit was angry and possessed the house willing to attack and eat any child that gets too close. Monster House was able to reform in a less neat and more rough looking form, but she still appeared to be fine, despite how she looked, and was possibly even stronger than before, despite her still being made of wood and bricks. The kids then resume the investigation where suddenly, the floor below them opened, sending them to the basement where Nebbercracker kept the confiscated toys from children. He stated that like mortal beings, it can only be killed by the destruction of its heart. Before her death, her dress was full red. If you are going to edit a lot, then make yourself a user and login. In its final form, the house resembles a porcupine made of timber boards, with the shattered yet same windows and a triangular mouth with a longer flange chimney set in the center of its head. The porch and door comprise her mouth with small wooden planks that emerge and act as her teeth to give her a powerful bite. Even the house's exterior turned into a demonic form while retaining its former appearance. The house had the slinkies snatch Chowder before doing the same on the pipes (organs) that snatch Jenny and had the wooden stairs attack DJ, who barely escaped back to the hall that turned into a mouth cavity, with his friends nearly devoured. Nebbercracker's wife, Constance, was in the circus as "The Lady as Big as a House." Real sensitive. Given how much Bones seems to revel in terrorizing DJ, his bandmate seems an odd choice. The horrified Chowder is then chased by the house's rug (the tongue) that acts like a chameleon's tongue, and barely escapes. However, DJ's spying operation goes deeper than snapshots he takes meticulous notes on his elderly neighbor's movements. Constance as it possesses Bones's old kite in order to devour Bones. DJ stated that Zee and Bones had a conversation about Nebbercrackers past life and assumed that he devoured Constance much to Jennys disgust. Therefore, Constance has suffered too long and despite his benevolent intentions to keep the children away from the house, it won't improve either of their lives Having overheard the conversation and witnessing her husband holding another's hand, Constance becomes consumed with rage and goes berserk and tears the house free from its foundations and begins to chase her husband and the kids via arms/feet made of trees on the property. April 21, 2023. Nothing slows the house down. After scraping a match against the wood to light it, the house gasps in shock and Mr. Nebbercracker prepares to set the dynamite on fire with the match, allowing it to be the right thing to do. He is DJ 's crabby neighbor. Here, Jenny stated that the main hall was deformed into some kind of mouth cavity where the opened hole acts like a throat, the rug acts as a tongue, deformed woods around the door acts as teeth, while the hanged lamp acts as a uvula. Furthermore, she didn't attempt to devour the cops that DJ, Jenny, and Chowder had called to the scene until she was certain that they wouldn't be able to call for assistance. Finally, Mr. Walters is completely unfazed when he backs into Chowder in the driveway. As he's leaving for a trip with his wife, he doesn't want to tell his son he loves him, claiming DJ "knows I love him!" There, they discovered Nebbercrackers old explosives and photographs depicting Nebbercracker when he was young alongside his wife Constance when she was alive. Constance Nebbercracker (formerly known as Constance the Giantess) is the house-like female ghost and the titular main antagonist of the 2006 computer-animated film Monster House. Constance going after DJ, Chowder, and Jenny. The house continues to chase down DJ and his best friends until they were near a construction site, where, for the safety of the children, Mr. Nebbercracker throws a stone brick at Constance and stands up against her, revealing his non-child-hating ways in the process. However, the idea was scrapped for being too dark. When Chowder explores the house and stumbles upon a large mirror that used to be Constance's, Constance's spirit appeared in the mirror and attacked him. We can accept that there are no police, since the house ate the town's only two officers, but the total lack of public reaction to the giant wooden horror is a bit jarring. Just then, the house moves again and taunts Chowder by playing his basketball that marked with Jack-O-Lantern's face, which Chowder perceives that the house would start the real killing spree tonight. Death Battle Fanon Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. ConstanceMrs. Her legs were short with seemingly fat arms. He also refuses his wife's request to blow his son a kiss as they drive off. When they entered it, they discovered Constance's corpse that was covered by cement layer. Constance Nebbercracker DJ Walters Chowder Jenny Bennett (all formerly) Type of Hero Tragic False Antagonist Horace Nebbercracker, (simply known as Mr. Nebbercracker, or Nebbercracker to some characters) is the overarching protagonist of Monster House. Not much is known about Constance's backstory, aside from the fact that she is a depressed circus freak show member that always got made fun of by children due to her extreme obesity. He even confiscated their toys that ended up into his lawn so they never returned for sake of their safety. The early script also further cemented Constance's status as an antagonist who posed greater threat than either Bones or Zee, as there is a scrapped scene where Zee also ended up getting devoured by Constance. As the medics put Nebbercracker's body on a stretcher, she possesses the grass on the lawn and tries to prevent them from leaving albeit failed, while her spirit, from the house's windows (the eyes), glares at unsuspecting DJ and Chowder, causing it to crack as they leave.
