12-year-old DJ
Walters spies on his elderly neighbor, Mr. Nebbercracker, who confiscates any
item landing in his yard. DJ's parents leave town for the weekend for a
dentists' convention, leaving him in the care of Elizabeth "Zee".
Charles "Chowder", DJ's best friend, loses his basketball on
Nebbercracker's lawn. DJ is caught by Nebbercracker while recovering it, who
rages at him before apparently suffering a heart attack and being taken away by
an ambulance.
That night, DJ receives phone calls from Nebbercracker's house
with no one on the other end. DJ eavesdrops on Zee's boyfriend Bones, who tells
Zee about losing his kite on Nebbercracker's lawn when he was younger, and that
Nebbercracker supposedly ate his wife. Later, Bones sees his kite in the
doorway of Mr. Nebbercracker's house, but he and the kite are consumed by the
house as he is retrieving it.
The next
morning, Jenny Bennett is selling Halloween chocolates. DJ and Chowder see her
going to Nebbercracker's house, and they rush out to warn her, catching her
before she is eaten by the house. Jenny calls the police, but officers Landers
and Lester do not believe their story.
The trio seek
advice from Reginald "Skull" Skulinski, who is claimed to be an
expert on the supernatural. They assume the house is inhabited by
Nebbercracker's soul. The only way to kill the house is to destroy its heart;
its source of life. They conclude that the heart must be the fireplace, as DJ
realizes that the chimney has been smoking since Nebbercracker died. Chowder
provides a cold medicine-filled dummy that should cause the house to sleep long
enough for them to douse the furnace. Officers Landers and Lester thwart their
plan, and they are arrested when Landers finds the cold medicine, stolen from
Chowder's father's pharmacy, inside the dummy. The cops place the trio in their
car while they examine the house. The house eats Landers, Lester and the car.
DJ, Chowder and Jenny escape the car but are trapped in the house.
The house
falls asleep and they begin exploring. They fall into the basement and find a
collection of toys accumulated from Nebbercracker's lawn, as well as a cage
containing the body of Constance the Giantess, Nebbercracker's wife, encased in
cement. The house realizes they are inside and attacks them. DJ, Chowder and
Jenny force the house to vomit them outside by grabbing its uvula. Nebbercracker arrives home alive, revealing that the house is possessed
by Constance. As a young man Nebbercracker met Constance, who was an unwilling
member of a circus sideshow, and fell in love with her despite her obesity. After helping her escape, she and Nebbercracker began building the house.
One Halloween, as children tormented her, Constance tried hurting them with an
axe, but lost her footing and died in the foundations of the house; the cement
buried her body. Nebbercracker finished the house after Constance's death,
knowing it was what she would have wanted. Aware that Constance's spirit made
the house come alive, Nebbercracker tried keeping people away by pretending to
hate children.
DJ tells
Nebbercracker it is time to let Constance go, but she overhears. The house
breaks free from its foundation and chases the group to a construction site.
Nebbercracker attempts to convince Constance that she should die while holding
a stick of dynamite, but Constance refuses. As she tries to eat him, Chowder
fights the house off with a back hoe, causing it to fall into a pit. DJ is given the dynamite, and he and Jenny
climb to the top of a crane while Chowder distracts Constance. DJ throws the
dynamite into the chimney, destroying the house. The trio see Nebbercracker
with Constance's spirit for the last time before she fades away. DJ apologizes
to Nebbercracker for the loss of his house and wife, but Nebbercracker thanks
DJ and the kids for freeing him and Constance. That night, children in their
Halloween costumes are lined up at the site of Nebbercracker's house, where DJ,
Chowder and Jenny help him return the toys to their owners. Jenny's parents pick
her up and DJ and Chowder go trick-or-treating, which they previously thought
they were too old for. Those who were eaten by the house emerge from the
basement.
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