Monster House

Monster House, an animation that's part horror and part comedy, is a thrilling roller-coaster ride. It will make you laugh one moment and send chills down your spine the next.

Produced by Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis, the film is basically a haunted house story with a Jurassic Park twist. The evil house, possessed by a human spirit, is no different from the prehistoric monsters in Spielberg's dinosaur movies.

It eats everything - from a tricycle and a basketball, to a dog - that crosses its path. It roars in anger and plays with its victims using its 'tongue' (which is, in fact, a red carpet).

Like many Spielberg productions, the heroes are children who survive the crisis on their own. The story's adults ignore the children's warning.

Halloween is coming. All children in the neighbourhood are expected to walk up to that evil house for treats. Teenager DJ (Mitchel Musso) and his two sidekicks, Chowder (Sam Lerner) and Jenny (Spencer Locke), decide to save the neighbourhood by striking the house at its heart - the furnace in the basement - with their water pistols.

The kids' attempt to escape from the house after being swallowed is an exciting and hair-raising scene. Thanks to the creepy voice provided by Kathleen Turner, the house is even scarier than the Tyrannosaurus Rex in The Lost World as it marches down the street, chasing its child victims.