Synopsis

On Halloween eve, twelve-year-old DJ Walters discovers that the seemingly abandoned house across the street is alive and hostile. With his friends Chowder and Jenny, he investigates its terrifying secrets while adults dismiss their warnings. As the house grows more dangerous, the three children must uncover its tragic history and find a way to stop it before it destroys their neighborhood.

Factoids & Trivia

• Monster House was created using performance-capture animation, a technique associated with Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers productions. Actors' movements and facial performances were recorded and then translated into computer-animated characters.

• Sony Pictures Imageworks used a physically based rendering approach for the film's lighting. The production has been noted as an early full-length animated feature to use brute-force path tracing for indirect lighting.

• The movie received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature at the 79th Academy Awards.

• It was released in a stereoscopic 3-D version on select digital screens alongside its standard theatrical presentation.

• The film was produced by Columbia Pictures, ImageMovers and Amblin Entertainment, with animation handled by Sony Pictures Imageworks.

• Composer Douglas Pipes won an ASCAP Film and Television Music Award for one of the year's top box-office films.

• Released in the United States on July 21, 2006, the film earned approximately $141.9 million worldwide against an estimated $75 million budget.