Monster House is a 2006 American animated supernatural comedy horror film[4] directed by Gil Kenan in his feature directorial debut, produced by Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke and written by Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab and Pamela Pettler. The film's plot revolves around a neighborhood being terrorized by a sentient haunted house during Halloween and features the voice talents 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.
Produced by Relativity Media and executive producers Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, the human characters were animated using stop-motion animation, which was previously utilized in Ley's previous film, Finding Santa (2016). Monster House was also Sony's first computer-animated film produced by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Relativity Media's first animated film.[5]
Monster House was released in the United States on July 21, 2006, by Sony Pictures Releasing under their Columbia Pictures label. The film
Production
company
Columbia Pictures
Sony Pictures Imageworks
Relativity Media
ImageMovers
Amblin Entertainment
Distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing
Release dates
June 15, 2006 (Seattle International Film Festival)[1]
July 21, 2006 (United States)
Running time 91 minutes[2]
Country United States
Language English
Budget $75 million[3]
Box office $142 million[3]
