Culver City, CA (July 22, 2010) –   Amid the growing excitement for 3D in the home, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) announced today the release of Monster House, debuting September 14, 2010 on high definition Blu-ray 3D™.
The Blu-ray 3D release of Monster House will make viewers living rooms come alivetk as they experience a whole new dimension of the animated feature in full 1080p high definition 3D, optimized for the latest 3D playback devices and eyewear. The 2D version of the film is also included on the disc for playback on all existing Blu-ray players.
Monster House tells the animated story of three friends who discover that their neighbor’s house is really a living, breathing scary monster. In addition to bringing the film’s theatrical 3D experience into the home, the Blu-ray 3D release also offers a thrilling fright-fest of special features including eight featurettes, a filmmaker’s commentary and the “Art of Monster House†photo gallery.
Even for a 12-year old, D.J. Walters has a particularly overactive imagination. He is convinced that his haggard and crabby neighbor Horace Nebbercracker, who terrorizes all the neighborhood kids, is responsible for Mrs. Nebbercracker’s mysterious disappearance. Any toy that touches Nebbercracker’s property promptly disappears, swallowed up by the cavernous house in which Horace lives. D.J. has seen it with his own eyes! But no one believes him, not even his best friend, Chowder. What everyone does not know is D.J. is not imagining things. Everything he’s seen is absolutely true and it’s about to get much worse than anything D.J could have imagined.
Directed by Gil Kenan (City of Ember) with a screenplay by Dan Harmon (“Communityâ€) & Rob Schrab (“The Sarah Silverman Programâ€) and Pamela Pettler (Corpse Bride), Monster House features the voice talent of Steve Buscemi (Big Fish, Monsters, Inc.), Catherine O’Hara (Where the Wild Things Are), Fred Willard (WALL-E) and Maggie Gyllenhaal (Nanny McPhee Returns). Monster House was Executive Produced by Robert Zemeckis (The Polar Express, A Christmas Carol), Steven Spielberg (Men in Black, Back to the Future), and Jason Clark (Stuart Little).
Monster House has a running time of 91 minutes. The picture is Rated PG for scary images and sequences, thematic elements, some crude humor and brief language.
Bonus Features:
·        Filmmaker’s Commentary
·        “Inside Monster House†Featurettes
·        “Art of Monster House†Photo Gallery
·        Evolution of a Scene