Monster House is a 2006 American computer-animated supernatural comedy horror film directed by Gil Kenan in his directorial debut from a screenplay by Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler, about a neighborhood being terrorized by a sentient haunted house during Halloween. The film features the voices of Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin James, Nick Cannon, Jason Lee, Fred Willard, Jon Heder, Catherine O'Hara and Kathleen Turner, as well as human characters being animated using live action motion capture animation, which was previously used in The Polar Express (2004).
Produced by Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment,[3] the film was released theatrically by Columbia Pictures on July 21, 2006 to generally positive reviews from critics. It grossed $142 million worldwide against a production budget of $75 million.[2]
