Monster House is a 2006 American animated supernatural comedy horror film directed by Gil Kenan in his feature directorial debut. Produced by Steve Starkey and Jack Rapke, with a screenplay by Dan Harmon, Rob Schrab, and Pamela Pettler, the film centers on a neighborhood terrorized by a sentient haunted house during Halloween. The voice cast includes Mitchel Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin James, Nick Cannon, Jason Lee, Fred Willard, Jon Heder, Catherine O'Hara, and Kathleen Turner. Produced by Relativity Media with executive producers Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, the film used motion-capture animation similar to Zemeckis' The Polar Express (2004). It was Sony Pictures Imageworks' first computer-animated feature and Relativity Media's inaugural animated film.