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After a series of terrifying encounters (including being nearly digested inside the house and the house attacking their friend, the bullying police officer Landers), the kids deduce the house's origin. By interrogating a skeletal figure named Bones—the ghost of a teenage construction worker who died when the house was built—they learn the truth. The house is the physical manifestation of , Mr. Nebbercracker's deceased wife.

Constance was a morbidly obese circus "giantess" who was tormented and abused by crowds. When a group of teenagers caused her to fall from a building in a cruel prank, she died. A heartbroken Mr. Nebbercracker, who was the construction foreman, built the house around her still-conscious, rage-filled body, encasing her in concrete in the basement. He then spent decades guarding the house, feeding it inanimate objects to keep its hunger at bay, but unable to destroy it out of love and guilt. monster house film

After Nebbercracker seemingly suffers a heart attack and is taken away in an ambulance, DJ and his best friend Chowder believe the house itself is now active and malevolent. Their suspicions are confirmed when the house literally eats Chowder's new basketball. They team up with Jenny, a smart and resourceful girl collecting donations for a charity haunted house. The three soon discover the house is a living, predatory organism—it can shift its architecture to form a mouth, a tongue (made of carpet), and an internal digestive system made of rubble and coal. After a series of terrifying encounters (including being