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"We had to build an incredibly robust character because the story demanded it. We mapped out where every board would break, how they would break, etc. Character rigging supervisor JJ Blumenkranz and his crew had to get all the right pieces moving in just the right way. The texturing part of the house is also incredibly complex. Audiences may not notice right away, but the house breaks down over the course of the film. There are many, many layers of paint on the house, and this all had to be created in textures and shaders. It is one of the most complex characters I have ever been involved in creating!"
"Our characters in Monkey House are indeed human, but we always approached them as stylized almost as if they were puppets. If you look at their proportions, you will notice that the heads, eyes, hands, and feet are larger than they should be. Also, we didn't concern ourselves with moisture, eyelashes or even real hair. We started our character modeling by creating actual clay sculptures of each character. Once a sculpture was approved, it was laser-scanned in, and final clean-up and patching, costumes, etc. were created. The most interesting aspect here is that we avoided symmetry at all costs. So many people model one side of a character and then simply mirror and flip to get the other side, which is highly unnatural. Admittedly, modeling and rigging non-symmetrical characters is a lot more work for the crew, but the results are so much more interesting and subliminal."
"There Goes The Neighborhood."
"This Summer......Cross Over to the Other Side........Of the Street."
"A living, breathing, nightmare of a house!"
"Welcome to the Fun House!"
"Three Kids. One House. It's Alive!"
"Hide Your Children. This House Will Eat Them!"
"The House is . . . . Alive!!"
"It's up to them to save the neighborhood"
"Mitchel Musso - D.J. Walters"
"Sam Lerner - Chowder Peterson"
"Spencer Locke - Jenny Bennett"
"Steve Buscemi - Horace Nebbercracker"
"Nick Cannon - Officer Lester"
"Maggie Gyllenhaal - Zee"
"Jon Heder - Skull Skulinski"
"Kevin James - Officer Landers"
"Jason Lee - Bones"
"Catherine O'Hara - Mrs. Walters"
"Kathleen Turner - Constance Nebbercracker"
"Fred Willard - Mr. Walters"
"Hugh Jackman as Gabriel Van Helsing"
"Dwight Schultz as Dr. Henry Jekyll"
"David Wenham as Friar Carl"
"Tress MacNeille as Queen Victoria"
"Alun Armstrong as Cardinal Jinette"
"Vincent Malloy is seven years old, He's always polite and does what he's told. For a boy his age he's considerate and nice, But he wants to be just like Vincent Price. He doesn't mind living with his sister, dog and cats, Though he'd rather share a home with spiders and bats. There he could reflect on the horrors he's invented, And wander dark hallways alone and tormented."
"Vincent is nice when his aunt comes to see him, But imagines dipping her in wax for his wax museum. He likes to experiment on his dog Abercrombie, In the hopes of creating a horrible zombie. So he and his horrible zombie dog, Could go searching for victims in the London fog. His thoughts though aren't only of ghoulish crime, He likes to paint and read to pass some of the time."
"While other kids read books like Go Jane Go, Vincent's favorite author is Edgar Allan Poe. One night while reading a gruesome tale, He read a passage that made him turn pale. Such horrible news he could not survive, For his beautiful wife had been buried alive. He dug out her grave to make sure she was dead, Unaware that her grave was his mother's flower bed."
"His mother sent Vincent off to his room, He knew he'd been banished to the tower of doom. Where he was sentenced to spend the rest of his life, Alone with a portrait of his beautiful wife. While alone and insane, encased in his tomb, Vincent's mother burst suddenly into the room. She said, "If you want to you can go out and play when it stops raining. For now, it's raining outside and a gloomy day.""
"Vincent tried to talk, but he just couldn't speak, The years of isolation had made him quite weak. So he took out some paper and scrawled with a pen, "I am possessed by this house and can never leave it again.""
"His mother said, "You're not possessed, and you're not almost dead. These games that you play are all in your head. You're not Vincent Price, you're Vincent Malloy. You're not tormented, you're just a young boy. You're seven years old, and you're my son. I want you to get outside and have some real fun when it stops raining.""
"Her anger now spent, she walked out through the hall, And while Vincent backed slowly against the wall, The room started to sway, to shiver and creak. His horrid insanity had reached its peak. He saw Abercrombie, his zombie slave, And heard his wife call from beyond the grave. She spoke from her coffin and made ghoulish demands, While through cracking walls reached skeleton hands."
"Every horror in his life that had crept through his dreams, Swept his mad laughter to terrified screams. To escape the madness he reached for the door, But fell limp and lifeless down on the floor. His voice was soft and very slow, As he quoted The Raven from Edgar Allan Poe, "And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted - Nevermore!""
"The most gratifying thing that ever happened. It was immortality — better than a star on Hollywood Boulevard."
"Vincent Price — Narrator"
"[As Donald listened to the radio story, the armchair behind him turned to be a gorilla from his imaginary and screamed] YA! [He fled to the front door, a mysterious man appeared in front of the door]."
"[After the characters from the book returned, and after the radio voice's comment, Donald still in dazed] Yeah, uh-huh. IMAGINATION. Uh..."
"RELAX, just relax. Let your imagination go."
"Really nothing there, is there? Well, possibly it was only YOUR imagination."