The most subtle reference to drug use comes during the scene immediately before the kids' dummy plan is foiled by the police. We can accept that there are no police, since the house ate the town's only two officers, but the total lack of public reaction to the giant wooden horror is a bit jarring. She is the archenemy of DJ Walters, Chowder and Jenny Bennett. What Shows Have Been Renewed or Canceled. Thanks to Jenny's quick actions in pulling the house's lamp, the possessed house ended up vomiting them to the outside, along with the contraptions that they supposedly used to make it sleep. Opposites attract, we suppose, even when it comes to bandmates. DJ was happy he did not make the old man be killed, but only crippled him instead. Constance was a tall obese woman with short black hair, pale pink cheeks, and grey eyes. In her first appearance, she wore a green dress with white flowers and heels. ConstanceMrs. DJ and Chowder are horrified by this, thinking Mr. Nebbercracker had died. They later witness a dog who approaches the lawn, only to be eaten by the house. Her legs are short with seemingly fat arms, giving her poor ability to reach, run or climb. When consumed by rage, the house has two trees linked to its head that are its chimney emitting a red glow and smoke, indicating its heart is racing. In the present, this leaves a concrete shell of her body in the basement. 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. Live out her life in solitude with Nebbercracker. So, they schemed a plan to make a dummy full of cold medicine, hoping that the drugs were enough to render the house sleeping. They both loved their husbands so much before they perished (Constance died while building the house and Martha was killed by enraged humans). 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. Feeling betrayed and hurt, Constance takes control of the trees in the front yard and lifts up the whole house, making it mobile. However, the landscape in Nebbercracker's flashback looks incredibly different from the Mayville shown in the film's opening shot. Mr. Nebbercracker then lashed out to the trio to leave, but his wrath quickly changes into worries as he realized that children would be approaching his house. I am an admin of this site. As they were waiting, the trio imagines what would happened if many children come to that house due to tonight is Halloween. The house had the slinkies snatch Chowder before did the same on the pipes that snatch Jenny and had the wooden stairs to attack DJ, whom barely escaped back to the hall that turned into a mouth cavity, with his friends nearly devoured. Sharp-eyed viewers will realize that Skull is Reginald Skulinski, the pizza delivery guy who gives the kids the lowdown on Nebbercracker's house. When DJ's babysitter Zee invites her boyfriend Bones over to his house, she introduces him by saying, "He's in a band." However, she is no longer the same person that Mr. Nebbercracker once knew: Her hatred against children (which stem from their treatment back when she was still a circus member) has made her a tricky, but savage, bloodthirsty and murderous monster that tries to kill anything and anyone that approaches her except for Mr.Nebbercracker himself. 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. As the medics put Nebbercracker's body on a stretcher, she possesses the grass on the lawn and tries to prevent them from leaving albeit failed, while her spirit, from the house's windows (the eyes), glares at unsuspecting DJ and Chowder, causing it to crack as they leave. But when the ball falls in Nebbercracker's lawn, the old man has a heart attack, and soon they find that the house is a monster. Mr. Nebbercracker tells her to look at him and tries to convince her he will not let anyone hurt her. DJ and Chowder then return to DJs room with Jenny to continue the investigation. Despite Monster House having a PG rating, the film contains a fair amount of substance use. Having overheard the conversation, Constance goes berserk and tears the house free from its foundations and begins to chase the children and her husband through arms / feet made of trees on the property. 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). He even confiscated their toys that ended up into his lawn so they never returned for sake of their safety. Constance Nebbercracker: "Hurt? In her monster house form, her vocal effects were provided by Frank Welker. 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. He is a 12-year-old teenager boy who is known for spying on Nebbercracker and his house through a telescope. 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. Her wooden walls are a desert sand color. When Mr. Nebbercracker was immediately brought to the hospital, Constance immediately awakened from her years of slumber. 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. Constance at the beach Horace and Constance Nebbercracker, c. 1959-1960 Constance as a mannequin in the video game. Other than that, enjoy Villains Wiki!!! Hetold her they were merely joking because it is Halloween, but Constance responds by saying it is her house and they are hurting it. Unfortunately, Officers Lester and Landers interfere and upon seeing objects that they used to render the house asleep, they wrongfully arrest the kids. Everything seems normal, until Chowder pressed the bell, where the house awakened. In the end, all the house's victims were revealed to be alive as well as they crawl out of the house's foundations. 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. 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. Constance: You vandals! His bones cracked in the process, causing him to fall unconscious on DJ's body. However, both films are six years apart from each other. Her husband is the sole exception, the one person she does not attack and allows to get close. Upon closer inspection, gamers might just notice something familiar about the gothic side-scroller. DJ's friend Chowder loses his basketball on Mr. Nebbercracker's lawn. Whilst managing to calm the house down, 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. The house's furnace burns on its own, and with both the house and lawn under her control, she caused them to emit sad, groaning voices as the ambulance approaches to carry her husband away. . He then checks to make sure no one is looking before taking a deep swig from the bottle. Having become part of the foundation, she possessed and physically became the house, her anger unyielding even after all these years. Man-eatingDestructionAnimal crueltyAttempted mariticideUnlawful imprisonmentChild abuse. However her spirit was angry and possessed the house willing to attack and eat any child that gets too close. It seems that Chowder has mixed up the uvula, the fleshy projection dangling at the back of the human throat, with a private part of the female anatomy. DJ and Jenny are knocked into the construction site as a result of the house and Chowder's battle on top of the cliff that leads down to the site. Early drafts of the film revealed concepts for Constance's character that were not used due to be deemed too disturbing and to keep the rating: The interior of the house possessed by Constance was warped that it resembled much more interior of human organs. 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. She was DJ's former arch-nemesis and Mr. Nebbercracker's wife. DJ was happy that he didn't cause the old man to be killed, but only crippled him instead. 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 hates Jenny because she helped DJ and chowder to stop her evil plan and was the one who cause herself to throw her, DJ and chowder out of the house. Unfortunately, as Mr. Nebbercracker falls backwards and onto his back, Constance loses her balance and falls into the house's foundations, crushing her spine due to her weight and followed by cement that spilled on her and buried her corpse. Monster House Animation 2006 1 hr 30 min English audio PG CC Buy or rent Three teens discover that their neighbor's house is really a living, breathing, scary monster, and decide that. Though Constance was happy with her later life, her happiness proved short-lived after she fell to her death. I think it kind of nailed the way that time in your life feels and the whole "don't trust the adults" thing. Monster House Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. like a petulant kid. Just then, Chowder spotted the hanging lamp (the uvula) in the houses hall, prompting them to shoot it. Things suddenly became worse as the house reveals its true nature and devour OfficerLandersalive while sadistically playing with OfficerLesterthat it grabbed through branches before eventually tossed him into its mouth. After getting scared by Jenny, Chowder sees a toy monkey with clapping cymbals and squirts it, thinking that the house is trying to get him. I saw monster house in theaters as a 6th grader so I was basically the perfect demographic. Constance Nebbercracker, formerly known as Constance the Giantess, was the main antagonist of Monster House. 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. As DJ, Jenny, and Chowder make their decoy dummy to feed to the house, they decide to use a pair of sweatpants, some old shoes, a vacuum cleaner, a broom, a letterman jacket, and the monster mask Chowder was wearing earlier in the film. Additionally, regarding a particular baseball incident, DJ records his neighbor's reaction time as being 24 seconds. Therefore, Constance has been suffered too long and in spite of his benevolent intentions to keep the children away from the house, it will not improve either of their lives. The only one whom is suspicious with this grumpy and wrathful attitude is DJ, a boy whom spy on the house for the past few years. A 12-year-old boy DJ Walters spies on his elderly neighbor Mr. Nebbercracker who confiscates any item landing in his yard. Not only that, she was forced to sleep . She only likes Mr. Nebbercracker and dislikes it when DJ tells Mr. Nebbercracker to let her go. She also has extra-large ones to give a powerful bite. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! 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. At that day, the children threw rocks at her, in which she responded by asking Mr. Nebbercracker for help. The teenagers ask their video-game addicted acquaintance Skull how to destroy the house, and they disclose its secret on the Halloween night. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! So, they schemed a plan to make a dummy full of cold medicine, hoping that the drugs was enough to render the house sleeping. As he did this, Constance became appeased as she was no longer bothered, and presumed undergo a deep sleep. Prior to her death, she wore a dress that was full red. Yet there are full-grown deciduous trees in the film's opening shot that stretch to the horizon. His bones cracked in the process, causing him to fall unconscious on DJ's body. 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. 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. He also refuses his wife's request to blow his son a kiss as they drive off. After Donnie's sister Elizabeth gets the news that she's gotten into Harvard, she and Donnie decide to throw a Halloween party in celebration while their parents are away. Everything in her is technically part of her, this includes chairs, tables, paintings, etc She has a large amount of explosives already inside her, Was able to eat an excavator whole in this state, She was previously struggling with fighting it when not deformed, Could still see fine despite her windows being broken, Still was able to move herself around like she was the same, even her mouth, It is possibly she could be more flexible and faster in this form, given she is not as restricted by her shape, Practically loses almost all of her supernatural powers, Furniture inside is gone, preventing her from using them as minions/helpers, Nearly anything inside her is destroyed/no longer able to work, Her chimney was producing a large amount of smoke, indicating she becomes extraordinarily angry at this state, It is unclear if she could actually go back to her regular form, if given time, or she would be unable to. Constance was born in 1931 and died in 1960, meaningshe was 29 years old when she died. I'll get you!Horace Nebbercracker: Constance, No! The house had the slinkies snatch Chowder before doing the same on the pipes (organs) that snatch Jenny and had the wooden stairs attack DJ, who barely escaped back to the hall that turned into a mouth cavity, with his friends nearly devoured. Constance going after DJ, Chowder, and Jenny. 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 . Thinking that it may be a trick, he tries to call the house itself, only for no one to answer him. 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. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Even the house's exterior turned into a demonic form while retaining its former appearance. There's not a lot of background information given on the town of Mayville until Mr. Nebbercracker's flashback takes place. As adult viewers will know, cough syrup is often abused as a recreational drug, sometimes in tandem with other substances. In its final form, the house resembles a porcupine made of timber boards, with the shattered yet same windows and a triangular mouth with a longer flange chimney set in the center of its head. 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. Around her dead body, they found some flowers and photos that people would normally place on the grave of their loved ones. Constance as it possesses Bones's old kite in order to devour Bones. However, she started to show hostility and eventually turned against him when DJ convinced him to "let her go". Officer Landers notices that something seems not right as the other one suddenly driven away with the tree's roots. When discussing the functionality of the chandelier-uvula, Chowder has a sudden realization. In the end, all the house's victims are revealed to be alive and well as they crawl out of the house's foundations. 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. Old Man Nebbercracker's House is a location from the 2006 animated horror film, Monster House. Now, all three of them need to try and stop the house and the only way by doing that is to go inside the house. The house's furnace (the heart) burns on its own, and with both the house and lawn under her control, she caused them to emit sad, groaning voices as the ambulance approaches to carry her husband away. The relationship may be entirely platonic, but most fitness trainers don't usually provide nighttime sweat sessions at the cinema. The kids managed to escape but are trapped inside the house as they witness the houses interior revert back to normal. Movie Villains Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. "Constance to Mr. Nebbercracker moments before her death. When Constance sees this, she proceeds to possess his kite within the basement (the stomach) and uses it to lure Bones into the house. Yes, I'm hurt! Constance Nebbercracker (formerly known as Constance the Giantess or known as the Monster House) is a posthumous character and the main antagonist of the 2006 computer-animated film, Monster House. 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. Her wooden skin is a desert sand colour. Yet another reference comes when the children fall into the house's basement. This is a sly reference to inhalant abuse, often called "huffing," involving everyday items like cleaning supplies, paint, and, allegedly, sometimes strong-scented markers. This pays homage to the iconic scene inStanley Kubrick's adaption ofThe Shining, when Danny Torrance rides his big wheel tricycle through the halls of the Overlook Hotel. Constance Nebbercracker, formerly known as Constance the Giantess, was the main antagonist of Monster House. 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. Constance is quick to anger, which is evident by her reacting to the boys throwing eggs and rocks at her before she died and overhearing others talking about her in house form. A plausible explanation is they happened to be outside hearing distance and that many of them are occupied by Halloween preparations somewhere else. Chowder looks behind, where the house became more deformed that it previously was before returning back to normal. Mr. Nebbercracker proceeds by lifting him upwards and unleashing several tantrums on his face. Oblivious to what has lured them, the two officers decided to investigate the house against the kids wishes. Tragically, the object that Nebbercracker takes is either destroyed or disappears into his house, never to see the light of day again. Monster House, original name Constance Nebbercracker, is the main antagonist of the 2006 animated movie, Monster House. Despite being labelled as a circus freak, Constance is shown to be rather intelligent. ". When DJ's parents travel on the eve of Halloween and the abusive babysitter Zee stays with . Suffice it to say, these transformations are scientific impossibilities of the most absurd sort. This saddens the house and provides Nebbercracker an opportunity to end his wife's suffering using a stick of dynamite. The concept of a house animated by a malevolent force that eats people is included in King'sDark Tower book series. 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. It's my house, and they're HURTING ME! Upon reaching the crane, DJ uses it to swing over the house's chimney and throws the dynamite down to its heart. Isaac: "Trick-or-treat!" Aware that the old man cannot do that forever, DJ convinces Mr. Nebbercracker to put her out of her misery as this is the better way. They try to unravel the mystery of the house and they have to go inside. The components gathered up for this stunt seem innocuous. The player utilizes various weapons, such as a whip, daggers, bombs, holy water, and axes such as the one seen in Thou Art Dead. The house continues to chase down DJ and his best friends until they were near a construction site, where, for the safety of the children, Mr. Nebbercracker throws a stone brick at Constance and stands up against her, revealing his non-child-hating ways in the process. The house then picks them up one by one after spotting the kids before they find the place to hide. Monster House was made in 2006 and Hotel Transylvania was made in 2012. 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. Her eyes can glow depending on her state of mind. He stated that like mortal beings, it can only be killed by the destruction of its heart. Her legs were short with seemingly fat arms. Yes, I'm hurt! 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. Her entire body is made of jagged, broken piece of wood with now shattered window eyes and a triangular mouth with longer fangs. The confused boy muses, "Oh, so it's a girl house." ", "Hurt?! Constance shares similarities with Martha from Hotel Transylvania, another animated film from Sony which is also about Halloween and also starred Steve Buscemi. The porch and door comprise her mouth with small wooden planks that emerge and act as her teeth to give her a powerful bite. As is implied by the film's title, the monster house is, in fact, a living being. She was a obese woman who did not want to work in a circus freak show. Before Constance uses the trees as impromptu legs, children and their parents are seen, trick-or-treating all across town. While DJ, Jenny, and Chowder are drawing up their plans, a quick close-up of the markers they use shows what brand DJ's parents keep handy: "Sir Sniff-A-Lot." 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.. Old Man Nebbercracker's House is a location from the 2006 animated horror film, Monster House.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 . 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. DJ stated that Zee and Bones had a conversation about Mr. Nebbercracker's past life and assumed that he devoured Constance, much to Jenny's disgust. 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. 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. The old man is well-known for terrorizing the neighborhood's children over the years. 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. Unmoored from her foundations, Constance is tired of letting her prey come to her, and goes after her husband and the kids who've turned him against her. Its windows are now a fiery orange colour. The eyes have blinds similar to eyebrows to express her emotions. 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. Her tongue resembles a red elongated carpet, a chandelier resembling a uvula, and a green throat which is an opened pit with sharp boards circling. Not much is known about Constance's backstory, aside from the fact that she is a depressed circus freak show member that always got made fun of by children due to her extreme obesity. 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. Now aware that Nebbercracker's house is sentient and sinister, Chowder and DJ, along with their new friend Jenny, are determined to uncover the mystery behind the monstrous house and protect their neighborhood's residents. Before it was too late, they rush toward her and convince her to go away. Constance and Nebbercracker in 1960 on the day she accidentally died due to her weight. Destroy DJ, Chowder, and Jenny.Resume her killing spree.Devour all of the children trespassers on Halloween (all failed). Officer Landers notices that something seems not right as the other one is suddenly driven away by the trees roots. What is the streaming release date of Monster House (2006) in Canada? Right off the bat, he comes off as emotionally stunted. The house continues to chase down DJ and his friends until they were near a construction site, where, for the safety of the children, Nebbercracker throws a stone brick at his house and stands up against Constance, revealing his non-child-hating ways in the process. Things Only Adults Notice In Monster House. Furthermore, she didn't attempt to devour the cops that DJ, Jenny, and Chowder had called to the scene until she was certain that they wouldn't be able to call for assistance. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information, In terms of her backstory, Constance was similar to the. Hi. 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. Constance's victims were originally supposed to be dead, but the creators decided that they should keep them alive. Death Battle Fanon Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. Both the boys are horrified by this, believing that Nebbercracker had died. Her legs are short with seemingly fat arms, giving her poor ability to reach, run or climb. Please, DJ: Get a healthier hobby. Constance Nebbercracker (formerly known as Constance the Giantess) is the house-like female ghost and the titular main antagonist of the 2006 computer-animated film Monster House. This also explained why her rage escalated further upon seeing her husband made up his mind to put her out of her misery before the kids eventually interfered and did him a favor instead. That night, she possesses the telephone in her house (off-screen) and calls DJ through telephone. WARNING: The following tab will reveal the numbers of wins and losses for the following character. The next instance of foreshadowing takes place as DJ goes to sleep. Not only that,she was forced to sleep in a cage by the rest of the circus members.