She knew that she could lure children into her house by using the possessions that Mr. Nebbercracker had confiscated from the children over the years, and knew that Halloween would be an excellent time for her to attempt to devour children as they would inevitably attempt to go trick-or-treating at the house. There, they also discovered what appeared to be Constance's carriage that DJ opened with a key that he found back when Mr. Nebbercracker was taken away by medics. Both the boys are horrified by this, believing that Nebbercracker had died. So, they schemed a plan to make a dummy full of cold medicine, hoping that the drugs was enough to render the house sleeping. Her legs are short with seemingly fat arms, giving her poor ability to reach, run or climb. 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. Constance Nebbercracker, formerly known as Constance the Giantess, was the main antagonist of Monster House. The kids then resume the investigation when suddenly, the floor below them opened, sending them to the basement where Nebbercracker kept the stolen toys from the children. They later witness a dog who approaches the lawn, only to be eaten by the house. In the end, all the house's victims were revealed to be alive as well as they crawl out of the house's foundations. Cookies help us deliver our Services. In her final form, Constance is completely demolished but quickly assembles her broken pieces into an even more menacing form. They discovered Bones' empty bottle but dismissed it and toss it aside, unaware that the possessed grass on the lawn pulled it underground. Shortly after Nebbercracker was taken away by the ambulance, the crack on one of the house's windows crosses DJ's neck, symbolizing her intent to kill DJ. 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. There, they also discovered what appeared to be Constance's carriage that DJ opened with a key that he found back when Nebbercracker's body was taken away by medics. Mr. Nebbercracker was at first furious after he had discovered the truth, but eventually relents and tells them both his and Constance's story. The four run in terror, going down an alleyway where Mr. Nebbercracker is forced to stay behind due to his old age preventing him from keeping up and encourages the children to go on without him. Playing the game dispels any doubts about the game's similarities toCastlevania, as the gameplay matches that of the renowned video game classic exactly. 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. This plan is stalled, however, when the house is dragged down the hill and it breaks apart as a result, leading to the heroes celebrating their apparent victory. NebbercrackerThe HouseMonster HouseOld Man Nebbercracker's HouseDomus Mactabillis (by Skull), DeceptionIntelligenceFull control over the House and propertySelf-reconstructionImmortality. Unfortunately, Officer Landers and Officer Lister interfere, and upon seeing objects that they used to render the house asleep, they wrongfully arrest the kids. The old man is well-known for terrorizing the neighborhood's children over the years. Koko Da Doll, who was featured in "Kokomo City," a documentary about four Black transgender sex workers that won awards at the Sundance Film Festival this year, was fatally . Oblivious with what has lured them, the two officers decided to investigate the house against the children's wishes. The door (the mouth) suddenly opens, revealing its interior's fractures, and shifts into a mouth-like cavern. Monster House was made in 2006 and Hotel Transylvania was made in 2012. Upon reaching the crane, DJ uses it to swing over the house's chimney and throws the dynamite down to its heart. An image of the house in question is featured on the cover of the first edition of Waste Lands, the third installment of the series. Whilst managing to calm Constance down, Mr. 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. After knocking the "head" off their dummy, the officer takes a bottle of cough syrup and tastes it. Yet something is amiss about this sequence, in which the house trudges through the neighborhood, roaring with fury. Just then, Constance grabs her husband with the intentions of killing him for this apparent betrayal before DJ, Chowder, and Jenny arrive just in time with an excavator, which proves effective against the house. When Jenny attempts to assure him that everyone has a uvula, Chowder asserts, "Not me," still not understanding the mix-up. As one officer accosts the kids, another goes to inspect their creation. It is unknown why no one else in the neighborhood heard or even questioned the obvious screaming and loud noises from the house possessed by Constance, especially when chasing DJ, Chowder, Jenny, and Nebbercracker down the streets. Unlike the onry however, Constance's restless spirit possessed her house most of the time, though she briefly manifests as a shadowy apparition when DJ took a peek into his house. Constance was a tall obese woman with short black hair, pale pink cheeks, and grey eyes. When discussing the functionality of the chandelier-uvula, Chowder has a sudden realization. They reverently recall he once played on a single quarter for four days straight, surviving on chocolate milk and wearing an adult diaper. Before it was too late, they rush toward her and convince her to go away. The most subtle reference to drug use comes during the scene immediately before the kids' dummy plan is foiled by the police. 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. She married Mr. Nebbercracker, but died one Halloween. Constance was a tall obese woman with short black hair, pale pink cheeks, and grey eyes. Monster House Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. He is DJ 's crabby neighbor. How to Create Your Own What-If Death Battles, General Death Battle TN and Template Blog, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, Weight: 80,000-160,000 Pounds (Presumably, average weight of a house), Age: 29 at age of death, house is 45 years old, Gets angry if anyone gets near Mr.Nebbercracker, Can Move The House As Easily As A Human Body Even With Its Carpet-Like Tongue, Can Control Trees In Its Yard Like Arms Or Legs, Can Independently Move Furniture Within Itself, Body has been shown to be able to keep itself together, Thins inside her can change from a normal look to an evil look, Pretty much every part of her body can be moved by her, Carpet at the front of the house has been used like a tongue, Can make the front of her appear as a gigantic mouth, Metal ventilation pipes act as tentacles/large worms with teeth at the end, Body can stretch around, despite being made of mostly wood, Can cause pipes to come out from places inside her, Can use the trees around her to uproot herself and move around, Even after falling apart, she got back up in a deformed state, but still kept going as if she was the same, Can't die unless the furnace inside her is destroyed, This is because the furnace acts as the heart of her, Will go into a massive tantrum when angered, Her chimney seems to produce more smoke the angrier she is, Can possess and control the stuff in the house, Can make books and pots float and fly around as a projectile, Can see people inside her if light from outside goes on them, Gets angry when someone is near Mr.Nebbercracker, The furnace itself is able to breath fire and shoot fire balls, After she came back, she was able to bite off the claw of an excavator, She also was able to lift the rest of the excavator with her mouth, and shortly after, she ate it, Has uprooted herself using the trees on the lawn around her, Has attacked people before they could react or try to escape, Can knock down trees like they aren't there, Can keep herself up with just one tree arm, Just the carpet was able to easily snag a car and wave it around like a toy, Despite her large size, she can actually move fairly fast, around 15-20mph, possibly more, Even after coming back deformed and a mess, she could still move around just fine, If her furnace is destroyed, she will die, Most of her abilities only work if someone is inside her. As is implied by the film's title, the monster house is, in fact, a living being. The porch and door comprise her mouth with small wooden planks that emerge and act as her teeth to give her a powerful bite. Monster House, original name Constance Nebbercracker, is the main antagonist of the 2006 animated movie, Monster House. DJ and Chowder are horrified by this, thinking Mr. Nebbercracker had died. The house becomes dirty due to the age Constance is reaching. 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. The ending was a little bit WTF and Dan's comments about it make it seem like things were changed that he had no control over so that's a shame. DJ's parents Mr. and Mrs. Walters leave town for the weekend for a dentist convention and leaving him in the care of Zee. In his nightmare, the shadow of the house creeps into DJ's bedroom, and the hand of a heavyset woman extends upward to reach for him as he wakes up. Thinking that it maybe a trick, he tries to call the house back but no one answers him. Prior to her death, she wore a dress that was full red. 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. Thou Art Dead features an axe-wielding hero fighting monsters in classic 8-bit style. He stated that like mortal beings, it can only be killed by the destruction of its heart. She grew hating children for mocking and taunting her. Despite her rage, she has also been known to tease and maybe humor people, shown when she taunted Chowder with his ball and when she rolled out her carpet for a dummy created by the children, though it was unclear if she knew what their plan was. Those criminals are attacking our house!" Unfortunately, this celebration is short-lived as Constance's control over the house is still intact and she manages to reform it from its broken remains, resulting in a more horrific and monstrous form that proceeds to devour the excavator before chasing Chowder. Though neither of Chowder's parents appear on screen, there is one joke about them in the movie that likely flies over most kids' heads. After Mrs. Walters admonishes DJ for spying on their elderly neighbor, Mr. Walters tries to relate to his son, admitting to doing a bit of spying himself at DJ's age. When she was human, Constance was a tall obese woman with short black hair, pale pink cheeks and grey eyes. In terms of backstory, Constance is similar with the onry, vengeful spirits from Japanese mythology as both are wronged in their lifetime and are ultimately killed (though Constance's death was accidental), resulting in them becoming restless souls that terrorize the living. Constance was born in 1931 and died in 1960, meaningshe was 29 years old when she died. For a brief moment, they are distracted by a beautiful girl named Jenny who, much to their horror, approaches the house. Just then, the house moves again and taunts Chowder by playing his basketball that is marked with Jack-O-Lantern's face, which Chowder perceives that the house would start the real killing spree tonight. A 12-year-old boy DJ Walters spies on his elderly neighbor Mr. Nebbercracker who confiscates any item landing in his yard. 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!" Before they could drive away, however, the house makes a groaning sound to lure the two cops closer. It's the home of the old man, Horace Nebbercracker, just across the street from DJ's House, and the house possessed by his late wife Constance, after she died from falling to her into it's basement while it was still under construction and having her body poured on by cement, turning it into a living, breathing monster, that attacks anything that dares to come close to it, the house was destroyed at the end of the movie with dynamite. 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. 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. Eventually, Mr. Nebbercracker rescued her from the circus and then married her. Just then, Constance, who already set her sights on Jenny, possesses the porch causing the concrete slabs below her to rise and led her to the houses mouth, only to be failed by Zee and the boys' interference. So, they schemed a plan to make a dummy full of cold medicine, hoping that the drugs were enough to render the house sleeping. The concept of a house animated by a malevolent force that eats people is included in King'sDark Tower book series. As his wife walks up to this clumsy attempt at a bonding moment, he tries to save himself by saying, "Neither of which was as lovely as your beautiful mother.". But eagle-eyed viewers of a certain age may notice that the dummy bears a striking resemblance to a background character in the 2001 cult horror film Donnie Darko. He remarks to his wife, "You would be so happy if [DJ] was under this car." Man-eatingDestructionAnimal crueltyAttempted mariticideUnlawful imprisonmentChild abuse. She has a red elongated carpet for a tongue, a chandelier resembling a uvula, and a green throat which is an opened pit with sharp wooden blades circling around. There, they discovered Nebbercrackers old explosives and photographs depicting Nebbercracker when he was young alongside his wife Constance when she was alive. She only likes Mr. Nebbercracker and dislikes it when DJ tells Mr. Nebbercracker to let her go. It all starts at the beginning of the film, with a shot of a little girl riding her tricycle onto Mr. Nebbercracker's lawn. After taking possession of the house, Constance's physical appearance is comprised of the different parts of the structure. When Jenny points out the house's uvula, Chowder claims that the house must be female, foreshadowing that he was correct. Everything seems normal until Chowder pressed the bell, and the house awakened. Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster. The relationship may be entirely platonic, but most fitness trainers don't usually provide nighttime sweat sessions at the cinema. This causes the house to explode and Constance's spirit to be released, allowing her to spend a peaceful and loving moment with her husband before passing on, signifying that her wrath is finally gone. When they entered it, they discovered Constance's corpse which was covered by a cement layer. Before her death, her dress was full red. 13-year-old DJ is observing his neighbor Nebbercracker on the other side of the street in the suburb that destroys tricycles of children that trespass his lawn. This celebration is short-lived, however, as Constance's control over the house is still intact and she manages to reform it from its broken remains, resulting in a more horrific and monstrous form that proceeds to devour the excavator before chasing Chowder. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Constance has two trees that act as her arms and she is able to control the lawn and walkway that leads toward her. She is also extremely brutal, murderous, and vituperative, so she wants to kill them, but when the house got blown up instantly, it seems that her spirit is finally put to rest and most likely let go of her grudge to people. Other than that, enjoy Villains Wiki!!! In her first appearance, she wore a green dress with white flowers and heels. 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 The ante is upped when the kids get the idea to use a dummy filled with cough medicine to make the house fall asleep and execute their plan. Later the boys rescue the smart Jenny from the house and the trio unsuccessfully tries to convince the babysitter, her boyfriend Bones and two police officers that the haunted house is a monster, but nobody believes them. Terrors that they endured caused Chowder and DJ to argue with each other with Jenny breaking up their fight. Things Only Adults Notice In Monster House. Things then suddenly became worse as the house attacks them and devours Officer Landers alive while sadistically playing with Officer Lister whom it grabbed via branches before eventually tossing him into its mouth. Though the activities mentioned don't explicitly point to anything scandalous going on in Chowder's house, the implicit meaning couldn't be more apparent to adults watching Monster House. Unfortunately, Officers Lester and Landers interfere and upon seeing objects that they used to render the house asleep, they wrongfully arrest the kids. For a brief moment, they are distracted by a beautiful girl named Jenny who, much to their horror, approaches the house. 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. Constance Nebbercracker, formerly known as Constance the Giantess, was the main antagonist of Monster House. Thanks to Jenny's quick actions in pulling the house's lamp, the possessed house ended up vomitting them to the outside, along with the contraptions that they supposedly used to make it sleep. Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster. It seems as though the amount of water in the area also hugely increased since Mr. Nebbercracker started work on his house: Not only is there enough rainfall to support a veritable forest, but there is even a lake nearby that has to be drained to make way for the Mayville Luxury Towers. This, however, nearly caused the house to awaken as the house' main hall turned into a mouth-like cavern before spitting a large amount of green slime water. Constance furiously believes that DJ is trying to take Nebbercracker away from her. Though Monster House is a children's film, it has plenty of content for viewers of all ages to enjoy. Still, her spirit l. Monster House - Ending robohobosam 30K subscribers Subscribe 1.5K Share 129K views 2 years ago Show more Show more Try YouTube Kids Learn more Suggested by Sony Pictures Movie Titles Through. As such, it is filled with organs analogous to those of the human body. This ritual has been observed for years by DJ, who is shown taking Polaroid pictures through a telescope in his bedroom. It's pretty fair to say Mr. Walters is probably not the best influence on his child, and, as adults will notice, kind of a messed up person in general. A plausible explanation is they happened to be outside hearing distance and that many of them are occupied by Halloween preparations somewhere else. 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. 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. Despite being labelled as a circus freak, Constance is shown to be rather intelligent. Contents 1 Victims 1.1 Before the Film 1.2 During the Film 2 Deaths 3 Kill Counts Victims Before the Film Constance Nebbercracker - Buried alive in cement when she accidentally fell down a pit during the house's construction. Just then, Chowder spotted the hanged lamp on the house's hall, prompting them to shoot it. Though Constance was happy with her later life, her happiness proved short-lived after she fell to her death. Mr. Nebbercracker:: "Now, now, they're-they're just kids, dear. 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 . The children head over to a local arcade and seek out the wisdom of Skull, a video game whiz who is engaged in an intense session of playing an arcade game entitled Thou Art Dead. A fact which related to Horace's former occupation as the member of demolition squad which Constance knew pretty well but easily overlooked by audience that they left baffled by how DJ managed to destroy the house she possessed with a dynamite was a stash of explosives belonged to her husband which he apparently stored in a part of the house the kids had no chance to explore (likely somewhere near a box of dynamite Chowder stumbled upon). Mr. Nebbercracker is happy that both she and him are finally free from their torment and proceeds to return all the toys he had taken back to the children of the neighborhood. 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. Before her death, her dress was full red. Constance as it possesses Bones's old kite in order to devour Bones. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, In terms of her backstory, Constance was similar to the. Later on, when DJ and Chowder sought to investigate the house, Chowder, who doesn't believe strange things that occurred inside the house, starts to fool around on the house's lawn. As is implied by the film's title, the monster house is, in fact, a living being. This saddens the house and provides Mr. Nebbercracker an opportunity to end his wife's suffering using a stick of dynamite. The four of them run in terror, going down an alleyway where Nebbercracker is forced to stay behind due to his old age preventing him from keeping up and encouraging the kids to go on without him. As adult viewers will know, cough syrup is often abused as a recreational drug, sometimes in tandem with other substances. Finally, Mr. Walters is completely unfazed when he backs into Chowder in the driveway. 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. This saddens the house and provides Nebbercracker an opportunity to end his wife's suffering using a stick of dynamite. DJ's detailed notepad is briefly glimpsed, where he documents every one of Mr. Nebbercracker's outbursts. 2006'sMonster House follows DJ, a 12-year-old who religiously spies on his cranky neighbor, an elderly man named Mr. Nebbercracker. 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. The game was also playable on the now defunctMonster House website. Its windows are now a fiery orange colour. 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. The components gathered up for this stunt seem innocuous. Early script also further cemented Constance's status as an antagonist who posed greater threat than either Zee or Bones as there is a scrapped scenario where Zee also ended up attacked by Constance. When DJ's Nanny Zee's boyfriend Bones goes over to the house and starts kicking its grass, he gets swallowed by the house. Once DJ goes to his room, she pops a cassette into the stereo labeled "Skull x Bones Live! The trio assumed that the house is inhabited by Mr. Nebbercracker's soul As the trio went home, DJ believes that the possession of the house started when the furnace inside the house was set alight, implying that the furnace was the houses heart. When DJ's parents travel on the eve of Halloween and the abusive babysitter Zee stays with him, he calls his clumsy best friend Chowder to play basketball. When the old man has a heart attack and is carried away by an ambulance, DJ thinks the danger is over. Though neither of these instances are obvious enough to give the reveal away to the little ones, they do provide a fun tidbit for them to find on subsequent viewings though adults probably notice them the first time. Constance plummets into the basement, where she gets covered in cement. Reginald Skulinski is worshipped by DJ and Chowder as a minor god of video games. The next instance of foreshadowing takes place as DJ goes to sleep. To add insult to injury, this all takes place on Halloween, the anniversary of her death. When DJ got the call, he only hears furious growls instead of a word. She married Mr. Nebbercracker, but died one Halloween. Yes, I'm hurt! They manage to formulate a plan where Chowder will lure the house under a crane so that the two can drop the stick of dynamite down its chimney which leads to the heart. It's my house, and they're HURTING ME! Her wooden skin is a desert sand colour. DJ was happy that he didn't cause the old man to be killed, but only crippled him instead. Just then, Chowder spotted the hanging lamp (the uvula) in the houses hall, prompting them to shoot it. One day, when Chowder's basketball accidentally flew into Mr. Nebbercracker's lawn and prompts DJ to bring it back, Mr. Nebbercracker ambushes and storms towards him. Given how much Bones seems to revel in terrorizing DJ, his bandmate seems an odd choice. DJ convinces his friends to keep up with their search for the house's furnace. Not only that, she was forced to sleep . Nebbercracker was at first furious after he had discovered the truth, but eventually relents and tells them both his and Constance's story. What is the streaming release date of Monster House (2006) in Canada? When DJ got the call, he only hears furious growls instead of a word. Additionally, regarding a particular baseball incident, DJ records his neighbor's reaction time as being 24 seconds. They manage to formulate a plan where Chowder will lure the house under a crane so the two can drop the stick of dynamite down its chimney which leads to the heart. Destroy DJ, Chowder, and Jenny.Resume her killing spree.Devour all of the children trespassers on Halloween (all failed). As the scene of the party is starting, one party-goer can be seen walking into the Darko house wearing a letterman jacket and a mask that are almost identical to the dummy's duds in Monster House. Not only is the imagery of the film relatively dark (and even a bit unsettling at times), there are also quite a few lines of dialogue and visual references that are likely to fly over most children's heads. However, DJ's spying operation goes deeper than snapshots he takes meticulous notes on his elderly neighbor's movements. When DJ asks Chowder where his parents are before asking to meet up in "the Danger Zone," Chowder responds that his dad is working at the pharmacy. Witnessing this, they realise that the house only moved when the unsuspecting victim approached, and Jenny decided to call the police As they were waiting, the trio imagines what would happen if many children came to that house due to tonight being Halloween. She apparently knew that she could lure children into her by using the possessions that Mr. Nebbercracker had confiscated from the children over the years, and that Halloween would be an excellent time for her to attempt to devour children as they would inevitably attempt to go trick-or-treating at the house which she possessed. Feeling betrayed and hurt, Constance takes control of the trees in the front yard and lifts up the whole house, making it mobile. His bones cracked in the process, causing him to fall unconscious on DJ's body. The house roars, prompting them to flee in terror. Due to nature of her death and misery she has gone through, Constance is trapped in a hateful and destructive state: When others come near her, she will often attack them, though she may wait to a certain extent. Typically, animated movies for children aren't celebrated for their expansive lore and world-building. Chowder looks behind, where the house became more deformed than it previously was before returning to normal. Right off the bat, he comes off as emotionally stunted. Afterwards, 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 Mr. Nebbercracker's house by damaging the lawn. 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.".

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