Monsters under the bed are scary enough, but what happens when an entire house is out to get you? Three teens aim to find out when they go up against a decrepit neighboring home and unlock its frightening secrets.
Visual Effects
Performance-capture animation that still holds up disturbingly well.
Direction
Gil Kenan's Spielberg-produced debut has Amblin DNA in its bones.
Sound
The house's creaking joints and digestive growls are impeccable design.
Director
Gil Kenan
Mitchel Musso
DJ (voice)
Sam Lerner
Chowder (voice)
Spencer Locke
Jenny (voice)
Steve Buscemi
Nebbercracker (voice)
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Zee (voice)
Kevin James
Officer Landers (voice)
Nick Cannon
Officer Lister (voice)
Jon Heder
Reginald "Skull" Skulinski (voice)
Jason Lee
Bones (voice)
Catherine O'Hara
Mom (voice)
Fred Willard
Dad (voice)
Kathleen Turner
Constance (voice)
Ryan Whitney
Little Girl (voice)
Woody Schultz
Paramedic #1 (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was the first fully performance-captured animated feature, shot like live-action with actors on blank stages—Maggie Gyllenhaal reportedly found it deeply disorienting.
The screenplay was written by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab of Community/Rick and Morty fame, which explains the surprisingly sophisticated emotional architecture beneath the monster-movie surface.
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