DJ Walterson

DJ Walterson
Nicknames	Dustin James Walterson (Full Name) Loser (By Zee) Big Nose (By Chowder) Doofus (By Bones) Kid/Friend (by Mr Nebbercracker)
Gender	Male
Age	12
Birth Date	14 July 1970
Character Information
Family	Joseph Walterson (father) Elena Walterson (mother) Chowder (Friend) Jenny Bennett (girlfriend; crush)
Occupation	Student
Series Information
Appearances	The Film
Voice Actor	Mitchel Musso

"Chowder, your ball just landed on Nebbercracker's lawn. It doesn’t exist anymore."

— DJ to Chowder.

Dustin James "DJ" Walterson is the titular main protagonist of Sony Animation’s first full-length animated feature film, Monster House. He is a 12-year-old boy who is known for spying on Horace Nebbercracker and his house through a telescope. He acts, and is treated, like a younger boy and is often thought to be crazy. He is voiced and mo-capped by Mitchell Musso.

Role in the Film

Not much is known about DJ's background, only that he had strained relationship with Elizabeth "Zee", his babysitter whom his parents Joe Walterson and Elena Walterson hired to take care of him while they're gone, and became the best friend to Charles "Chowder" at some point in the school. He is also a bright young boy who came to believe that there's something more in Mr. Nebbercracker's habit of taking items that ended up in his lawn and scaring away any children who get too close to his home and will do anything to get the bottom of it. Little did he knows how right he is...

DJ first appeared witnessing Mr. Nebbercracker confiscating a little girl's tricycle, much to Mrs. Walters' chagrin. Mr. and Mrs. Walters inform DJ that they will leave town for the weekend for a dentist's convention and have called Zee to take care of him in their stead. Chowder comes to hang out with him and asks if DJ is going trick or treating, but DJ says that he is not, as he thinks he has gotten too grown up, much to Chowder's shock. As DJ scored two goals in the basketball hoop, Chowder tries to make a score, but the ball bounces off the metal bar and hits Chowder in the head. DJ inspects Chowder, as he thinks he has gotten hurt. To his annoyance, however, Chowder is not hurt at all, and says that he is acting like a dork.

The two boys find the ball on Nebbercracker's lawn, Chowder begs DJ to go and fetch it, but DJ says that the ball is now on Nebbercracker's lawn, and it does not exist anymore. Chowder sobs and explains that he paid $28 for the ball and to do that, he had to rake 10 lawns and asked his mom 16 times for a dollar. DJ says that Mr. Nebbercracker has not come out yet and decides to go and fetch the ball. As DJ tries to recover the ball, he is caught by Mr. Nebbercracker, who loses his mind, rages at him, raises him up in the air and angrily asks him if he wants to be a dead person, to which he nervously exclaims to him that he loves life. However, this turns out to be a huge mistake due to the man's age and the boy's weight. This apparently makes Mr. Nebbercracker have a massive heart attack and collapse on the ground and on DJ as the house creaks, and then the chimney (which is the heart) starts lighting by itself. DJ and Chowder watch in shock as Mr. Nebbercracker is taken away in an ambulance. DJ finds a key which Mr. Nebbercracker dropped.

The House Awakens

DJ says that he is a murderer. While Chowder says that he is not and when it is an accident, they called it a "manslaughter". As DJ prepares to throw up (puke), Zee arrives and Chowder goes home. DJ goes up to his room while Zee listens to music on the radio and calls someone while DJ puts the key on his desk and goes to bed.

That night, DJ has a nightmare where the house's shadow prepares to grab him and he wakes up when he receives phone calls from Mr. Nebbercracker's house with no-one on the other end. DJ eavesdrop 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. DJ finds one of the house's windows blinds (the eyelids) opening up, DJ thinking that he is being haunted, prepares to investigate the house with Chowder's help. DJ sneaks out just in time as Bones gets kicked out by Zee.

DJ arrives at the construction site where luxury tower apartment buildings are being built there, he finds Chowder in an excavator making stupid noises and he tells him to shut up. As they talk, Chowder accidentally starts the engine until DJ takes the keys out and says that he needs Chowder's help, which Chowder reluctantly agrees.

DJ and Chowder spy on the house but Chowder refuses to believe the house is possessed. Chowder emerges from the ground and imitates Nebbercracker on the porch, then rings the doorbell. The house wakes and is disturbed when it finds Chowder and DJ on its property. The windows (the eyes) light up, the door (the mouth) opens, and sharp boards break out of the top and bottom (the teeth) and inside the house, the floorboards break open (the throat) leading to the basement (the stomach) the carpet rises from the stairs (the tongue is the carpet) and the stairs appear to lead to the brain (unknown object). The carpet comes out to get Chowder and DJ, but the boys scared by the house's demonic appearance, run into DJ's house in fear.

The boys spend the night watching the house as they think it might move again. DJ and Chowder both think that the house is haunted by Mr. Nebbercracker's disappearance, or it is experiencing poltergeist activity.

Meeting Jenny Bennett

The next morning, Jenny Bennett is on the street selling Halloween chocolates. While DJ and Chowder are still watching the house, Zee comes in and asks if they have seen Bones as he never returned the previous night. The boys realize that Bones has been eaten by the house after learning about the beer bottle, as the boys tell her. Zee thinks that the boys are telling stories and she goes out to find Bones.

DJ and Chowder then continue their job at watching the house until when they see Jenny walking, they both develop huge crushes on her, but to their horror they see her going to Nebbercracker's house. They rush out to warn her. At first, she didn't believe them until the house prepares to eat her. The boys managed to catch her before she is eaten by the house. While Zee leaves and Chowder talks to his dad on the phone (who is worried about him missing), DJ introduces himself to Jenny and he explains of what's been happening. While Jenny speaks to her mom on the phone, DJ and Chowder talk about hating Mexican food and "calling dibs on a girl". The trio then sees a dog starting to pee on the Monster House's lawn, the house then grabs the dog with its tongue and pulls it inside just like a frog does.

Jenny decides to call for the police, but when police officers Landers and Lester arrive, they do not believe their story, as the house does not react to the kids' teasing while the cops are there. The three realize that no one is going to believe their experience with the house and decided to keep it to themselves.

The trio seeks advice from Reginald "Skull" Skulinski, a strange video game addict working in a pizza parlor who is claimed to be an expert on the supernatural. They learn that the house is a "Domus Mactabilis" (Latin for "Deadly Home") a monstrous being created when a human soul (vengeful) merges with a structure. They assume the house is inhabited by Mr. Nebbercracker's soul and that 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's heart attack.

Planning to Kill the House

As they make a plan to kill the house, Chowder provides a dummy filled with cold medicine that should cause the house to sleep long enough for them to douse the furnace. The plan almost succeeds, but Officers Landers and Lester arrive and thwart it. Landers discovers the cold medicine inside the dummy, which Chowder took from his father's pharmacy, and arrests them. The cops wrongfully place the trio in the police car while they examine the house. The house eats Landers, Lester, and the car. DJ, Chowder, and Jenny escape from the car, but they are trapped in the house.

Exploring the House

The house falls asleep, and they begin exploring. They make a plan to find the heart and put out the fire while Chowder asks if there are more options. Which DJ agrees; wait and do nothing until the house finds out where they are and it will eat them, Chowder disagreed with that idea and goes on with the plan to find the heart and put the fire out. DJ finds binoculars on the wall near a small hatch to the door and he realizes that Nebbercracker has been watching him the whole time while he was trying to get Chowder's ball back. Jenny then shows DJ a set of photos with Nebbercracker and his late wife, then DJ says to Jenny that Nebbercracker used to have a wife, but he fattened her up and ate her, much to Jenny's disgust. Or at least that was he assumed...

While exploring, Chowder finds mistakes the chandelier (the uvula) in the foyer and mistakes it for the heart, they shoot which causes the house to vomit a little bit of green slime water outside and a searchlight appears to find any intruders inside the house's interior. Jenny explains that the chandelier is the uvula, and it stimulates the gag reflex and everyone has a uvula. The house then dozes off again and the searchlight disappears.

DJ, Chowder, and Jenny then fall into the basement and find an enormous collection of toys accumulated from Nebbercracker's lawn, as well as a locked cage that DJ opens with a key he found on the lawn. They find the body of Constance the Giantess, Nebbercracker's wife, encased in cement. They begin to find out why Nebbercracker did this to his wife until DJ accidentally falls onto the body and screams in terror as it cracks open to reveal a skeleton. The house realizes they are inside and begins attacking them. As Jenny and Chowder have been captured by bedsprings (which is like tentacles) and pipes that look like snakes hanging, DJ walks up the basement stairs until the stairs start to attack him as he climbs up to the first floor. Jenny forces the house to vomit them outside by grabbing onto its uvula. As DJ and Chowder argue about their ideas, and that Chowder risked his life for DJ for stealing drugs for him and DJ says that it was Chowder's idea to make DJ retrieve Chowder's ball back and DJ then hastily heads for home. As he does, he nearly gets run over by an ambulance hijacked by Nebbercracker, and the trio is surprised to see he arrives home alive, but with his arm in a sling.

DJ was happy that he didn't cause the old man to be killed, but only crippled him instead. Nebbercracker then lashed out to them to leave, but his wrath was quickly changed into worries as he realized that kids would be approaching his house. He then starts to walk towards his house which somewhat became gentle to him. By this point, DJ learned that all this time, the house was possessed by Constance's spirit.

Final Fight

Against his friends' protests, DJ tries to talk some sense with Nebbercracker about the truth behind his wrathful and suspicious behavior. Nebbercracker was at first angry after he has discovered the truth, but eventually relents and tell them both his and Constance's story. All of his bad deeds on the children were merely ruses to keep them away from his house after the latter's accidental murder by bullies and because of it, he was forced to pretend to be a child hater so Constance's spirit, now possessing the house, won't be able to destroy everything on its path.

DJ tells Nebbercracker it is time to let Constance go, but she overhears. The house breaks free from the foundation, with trees to support it (the arms), and chases the group to a nearby construction site. During the climax, as Constance tries to eat Nebbercracker, Chowder fights the house off with an excavator, causing it to fall into a pit.

DJ is given the dynamite, and he and Jenny get accidentally thrown into the huge pit where a lake has been drained. Chowder managed to bring the house down into the pit where it crumbled to pieces. Thinking that they won, they cheered until the house starts to reconstruct itself by making it a deformed monstrosity. DJ and Jenny then climb to the top of a crane while Chowder distracts once was once Nebbercracker's house and the excavator is eaten. When DJ and Jenny reach the crane's arm, DJ was very scared to do it, Jenny tells him that he can and kisses him, giving him the confidence to do so. DJ then throws the dynamite into the chimney, blowing it up. The trio sees Nebbercracker having the final touch with Constance's spirit 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 after 45 years of being trapped. That night, children in their Halloween costumes are lined up at the remains of Nebbercracker's house, where DJ, Chowder, and Jenny help him return all of the toys to their owners, including Eliza’s tricycle. Jenny's parents pick her up and DJ and Chowder decide to go out trick-or-treating, which they had previously thought they were too old for.

Other appearances

Video Games

DJ, along with Chowder and Jenny, is one of the three playable characters in the video game based on the film.

GameCube/PlayStation 2

At the start of the game, Jenny and Chowder are separated from DJ, with Jenny getting stuck in the attic, while Chowder finds himself in the greenhouse. DJ, meanwhile, has to explore the first and second floors of the house, finding keys to unlock doors, and moving crates and uncovering secret passages, one of which leads to the basement, where he contacts Skull for information on how to deal with the house.

While exploring the second floor, he finds Jenny trapped in an air vent, and tries to free her, to no avail. After Jenny manages to escape and fights off a huge doll of Constance, getting to the attic, DJ calls up to her from below and tries to get to her, but is caught by a canopy bed in the master bedroom after collecting a key on the bed. DJ and Jenny later meet up in the basement and decide to just get out of the house.

Reuniting with Chowder in a circus-like room, they find the remains of Constance, and unsuccessfully attempt to douse the furnace, resulting in all three of them being separated again by massive pipes. The three then have to fight their way through the corridors while dealing with more enemies, reuniting again at the entry hallway, where they get the house to spit them out by pulling on the uvula. After a chase to a construction site, where Chowder engages the house with an excavator, DJ swings on a crane and throws dynamite down the chimney, blowing up the house. As he descends, Jenny and Chowder congratulate DJ.

Nintendo DS/GameBoy Advance

Unlike in the GameCube and PlayStation 2 versions of the game, DJ, Chowder, and Jenny don't get separated and are together throughout the game in the DS and GameBoy Advance versions, with the player being able to switch between them as they explore each room and fight off possessed furniture, including the house's uvula and furnace.

The game culminates in them trying to deal with the furnace, which Jenny is initially too scared to do, but overcomes her fear with encouragement from DJ and Chowder (in the GameBoy Advance version). While in the DS version, they end up having to deal with the house directly, with the lawn serving as a battle arena.

Appearance

He has short black hair, brown eyes and wears a red, black and white long-sleeved striped shirt.

In other languages

Language	Name	Voice actor(s)
French	Douglas J. "D.J." Walters	Louis Lecordier (appearance) Jake T. Austin (voice)
German	Douglas J. „DJ“ Hartner	Maximilian Artajo (appearance) Sean Ainsworth (voice)
Hungarian	D.J	Morvay Gábor (appearance) Peter Edward Mussad (voice)
Italian	DJ	Furio Pergolani (come umano nel monster House uno) Mirco Della Vedova come casa
Japanese	DJ	Minami Takayama
Polish	DJ	Kajetan Lewandowski
Portuguese	DJ Walters	Gustavo Pereira
Spanish	DJ	Alejandro Orozco

Quotes

Film

• "Yeah, Mom. I'm coming. I'm coming.
• "October 30th, another tricycle."
• "DON'T LOOK BACK!"
• "I'm coming!"
• "Mom, he did it again. He took another tricycle."
• "But, Mom, there's something wrong with that house. I'm serious!"
• "Chowder, your ball just landed on Nebbercracker's lawn. It doesn't exist anymore."
• "Shh. Nebbercracker hasn't come out yet."
• "So maybe he's sleeping. All right, I'll do it."
• 'Go."
• "No."
• "I'm so sorry. Oh, I'm so, so, so sorry. I didn't mean--"
• "Chowder!"
• "Help! Chowder!"
• "No, I'm sorry!"
• "No! I love life!"
• "Got it from now on!"
• "I'm a murderer."
• "Don't talk to me like I'm a baby, okay? I am practically a grown-up. I don't even need you here, Elizabeth."
• "Stop doing this."
• "Meet me at the Danger Zone now."
• "Shut up!"
• "Nebbercracker's back from the dead."
• "Chowder, you're not listening to me! Nebbercracker's haunted me alright. His blood is on my hands. And now he's coming back for revenge."
• "Chowder, put that down! Come back, please!"
• "Don't look back!"
• "Yeah, we were up all night watching it, we didn't even leave this room once. Not even to go to the bathroom, don't drink that."
• "Zee, it's true there's something evil going on across the street."
• "Never came back?"
• "Of course."
• "Your boyfriend has most slightly been eaten alive."
• "What, what is it?"
• "Don't go any, further. Come here."
• "Hi, I'm JD--DJ."
• "What are talking about? That one's your pee!"
• "No wait, you can't! Like this thing, it has mouth, and it comes out and grabs things, and pulls them in, and eats them!"
• "You're looking at the three-time, tri-state, over fourteen, Thou Art Dead Champion. His name is Reginald Skullinski, but they call him Skull."
• "The man's a legend."
• "Sir?"
• "But houses don't have hearts."
• "Ever since Nebbercracker died, there's been smoke coming out of that chimney."
• "Plug it in."
• "But officers, you gotta believe us!"
• "The only way that were gonna get out of here alive, is that we find the heart, we put out the fire."
• "People used to say he had one, but he fattened her up, and he ate her."
• "Were gonna move quickly, and quietly. Don't touch anything and stay together."
• "I think you guys should have a look at this."
• "Constance, the Giantess..."
• "The key!"
• "Or couldn't have, her whole body is buried in cement."
• "I knew you were hiding something, Mr. Nebbercracker."
• "Chowder, come back!"
• "What do you want from me Chowder!? I don't see you coming up with any big ideas!"
• "Chowder, the house is still alive and your gonna wuss out!?"
• "We are babies!"
• "I'm going home. I suck."
• "He's not a ghost, he's not dead, I'm not a murderer!"
• "It's her, the house is her."
• "Mr. Nebbercracker! I know about Constance."
• "You didn't kill her, did you?"
• "Come on Mr. Nebbercracker, come on!"
• "Leave him alone!"
• "The chimney, the chimney leads to the heart."
• "Chowder, I need you to get the house down under that crane. Do you think you can do that?"
• "I can't!"
• "I kissed a girl... I kissed a girl on the lips."
• "On the count to three, I want you to light the dynamite."
• "THREE!"
• "I'm sorry Mr. Nebbercracker about, your house... and your wife. Your house-wife."
• "Here you go."
• "It turned into a monster, so I blew it up."
• "Were gonna need a tricycle."
• "Tricycle."
• "That's nice Chowder."
• "Oh Mr. Nebbercracker, it's time to go."
• "Oh yeah, no question about it... On the other hand, we've been working all night."
• "Candy time."

Video Game

• "I’m DJ."
• "That makes two of us."
• "Chowder!"
• "Jenny!"
• "Is this a kitchen? Yuk!"
• "Where's that music coming from?"
• "I feel fourteen years old."
• "Skull? Skull, can you hear me? It's DJ!"
• "Skull listen, we tried to kill Nebbercracker's house, and we got swallowed alive! We're inside, and we've been separated!"
• "Skull, that's the only information I have. Now how do we get out?"
• "How?"
• "What do you mean it's heart?"
• "What are you doing up there?"
• "Maybe we should try cutting open with your, sharp wit."
• "Jenny! Hang on, I'll be right there!"
• "I am now. I mean yeah, I'm fine."
• "Whatever, let's just get out of here!"
• "Back where you came from, right?"
• "Aw, great!"
• "I'm a little surprised."
• "He buried her alive!"
• "It's her, the house is Nebbercracker's wife!"
• "There's only one way we're going to get of here. We have to destroy the heart. The heart is the furnace, and we have to put out it's fire."
• "This is it! Ready?"
• "FIRE!"
• "Hang on Chowder!"
• "We did it you guys!"
• "The house is gaining on us!"
• "Don't look behind you!"
• "Maybe that isn't such a great idea after all."

Gallery

DJ after observing Horace Nebbercracker.

DJ writing down on a notepad on Nebbercracker taking a girl's tricycle after it crashed into his lawn.

DJ being reprimanded by his mom for spying on Nebbercracker.

DJ trying to tell his mom there's something wrong with Nebbercracker isolating himself in his house.

"I'm serious!"

When realizing he was whining, DJ changes the tone of his voice to sound more mature.

DJ rolling his eyes when his parents believe he is having puberty.

DJ trying to deny to his dad over his constant spying on Nebbercracker.

DJ talking to his dad.

DJ helping his parents pack up as they leave to go out of town for the weekend.

DJ meeting with his best friend, Chowder.

DJ screaming in frustration after his parents leave him in the care of a babysitter during Halloween.

DJ being comforted by Chowder.

DJ admiring Chowder's new basketball.

DJ being asked by Chowder what costume he plans on wearing while trick-or-treating.

DJ telling Chowder he isn't going trick-or-treating this year.

DJ about to throw the basketball at the basketball hoop.

"Maybe I'm getting too grown up."

DJ raising his eyebrows as Chowder makes a funny face at him for believing he's getting old to do trick-or-treating.

DJ watching Chowder dribble his his basketball.

DJ coming to Chowder's aid when he tries making a basket, only to get hit in the face by his own ball.

"Let me see. Oh my God! You're a dork!"

DJ and Chowder horrified to see where the basketball bounced to.

"Chowder, your ball just landed on Nebbercracker's lawn. It doesn't exist anymore!"

As Chowder begins to cry, DJ notices Nebbercracker has not stepped out to claim the ball.

DJ and Chowder thinking that Nebbercracker must be sleeping.

DJ deciding to retrieve Chowder's basketball.

"Go." - DJ believes in himself to get the basketball.

DJ running to get the basketball.

Before DJ can grab the ball, he hears Nebbercracker's front door creak open.

“No.” - DJ being spotted by Nebbercracker.

DJ seeing Nebbercracker running towards him.

DJ trying to apologize to Nebbercracker when he accidentally kicks some grass off his lawn.

DJ running from an enraged Nebbercracker.

DJ being grabbed in the arm by Nebbercracker.

DJ scared as he's held by an enraged Nebbercracker.

DJ nervously being held up in the air by Nebbercracker.

DJ horrified when Nebbercracker has a sudden heart attack.

A horrified DJ on the ground with Nebbercracker's unconscious body on top of him.

DJ and Chowder having called an ambulance.

DJ and Chowder look on as Old Man Nebbercracker is taken away in a stretcher.

DJ spotting something glimmering in the grass.

DJ finding a brass key that Nebbercracker had dropped.

DJ and Chowder having watched Nebbercracker being put into the ambulance.

DJ watching the ambulance drive off with Nebbercracker's unconscious body.

DJ blaming himself for causing Nebbercracker to die.

"I think I'm gonna throw up."

DJ walking back into his house as his babysitter, Elizabeth arrives.

DJ still upset over the incident with Nebbercracker.

DJ telling Elizabeth that his parents had already left for the weekend.

DJ bewildered when Elizabeth reveals herself to be a punkish, apathetic teenager.

"Don't talk to me like I'm a baby, okay?! I am practically a grown up!"

"I don't even need you here, Elizabeth."

DJ watching Elizabeth "Zee" holding a plant in front of him.

DJ shocked when Zee drops the plant where its pot shatters onto the ground.

When Zee accuses him of breaking the pot, DJ tells her he wasn't the one who broke it.

DJ being ordered by Zee to go to his room.

Once in his room, DJ slams the door in frustration.

DJ putting Nebbercracker's key on his desk with his notes and drawings.

DJ sadly looking at the Nebbercracker house out through his window.

DJ holding his stuffed bunny before he falls asleep.

DJ suddenly waking up after having a nightmare.

DJ calming down after realizing he was just having a dream.

DJ receiving a phone call around eleven o'clock at night.

As DJ answers the phone, he hears furious, inhuman growls on the other end of the line.

Thinking it was a prank call, DJ tries to call the same number back.

However, DJ grows horrified as he hears a phone ringing outside across the street.

DJ hearing a phone ring inside Nebbercracker's house.

As the ringing grows louder, DJ realizes he received a phone call from Nebbercracker's house.

DJ trembles after getting scared by Zee and her boyfriend, Bones.

DJ meeting Zee's boyfriend, Bones despite the fact that Zee can't bring friends over as she takes care of him.

DJ trying to show the older teens how he thinks Nebbercracker's house may be haunted.

DJ telling Zee and Bones that he thinks Nebbercracker's ghost is haunting him.

When Bones takes DJ's stuffed bunny, DJ politely asks him to give his doll back.

DJ being bullied by Bones.

DJ having witnessed Bones rip a little stuffing out of his stuffed bunny.

DJ sad that his stuffed bunny got ripped.

DJ sadly looking at the Nebbercracker house.

DJ having saw one of the Nebbercracker house's windows' blinds suddenly swing open.

DJ now certain that he's being haunted by Nebbercracker's ghost.

DJ calling Chowder, telling him to meet him at a construction site within their neighborhood.

DJ quietly descending down the stairs.

DJ eavesdropping on Bones telling Zee how he lost his kite to Nebbercracker.

DJ also hearing Bones describe how Nebbercracker supposedly ate his own wife.

DJ quietly sneaking out of through the back door.

DJ closing a gate behind him.

DJ arriving at the construction site.

DJ looking for Chowder at the construction site.

DJ finds Chowder who's playing on an excavator.

DJ telling Chowder that Nebbercracker has come back from the dead.

"Nebbercracker's haunting me! His blood's on my hands! And now he's coming back for revenge!"

DJ having his beliefs on being haunted by Nebbercracker's ghost dismissed by Chowder.

DJ holding onto to Chowder after he accidentally turns on the excavator.

After turning off the excavator, DJ asks Chowder for his help in investigating Nebbercracker's house.

Despite Chowder agreeing to help him, DJ is reminded by his friend that he's still bitter over him not wanting to go trick-or-treating.

"Okay. Whatever. Let's go."

DJ standing beside a tree.

DJ and Chowder observing Nebbercracker's house.

When Chowder goes to prove DJ wrong about being haunted by Nebbercracker's ghost, DJ tries to get his friend to not go anywhere near the old man's house.

When Chowder rings the doorbell, DJ sees the house's two front windows suddenly get opened where the inside lights are turned on.

"This way! This way!"

DJ having guided Chowder to safety after Nebbercracker's house tried to attack him.

DJ on the ground after a terrified Chowders runs into him.

DJ and Chowder running in terror when the house roars at them, revealing itself to be a living creature.

DJ and Chowder taking shelter in his house.

"No detectable movement."

"Shh!"

DJ and Chowder racing to turn off the lights.

"Cover blown?"

DJ sighing with relief as Zee questions his and Chowder's strange behavior.

DJ explaining how he and Chowder watched the Nebbercracker house all night.

"Don't drink that."

"Zee, it's true. There's something evil going on across the street."

DJ sitting down as Zee doesn't believe him.

DJ and Chowder hearing from Zee how Bones mysteriously disappeared last night.

DJ and Chowder realizing the beer bottle they found last night belonged to Bones.

"Your boyfriend has most likely been eaten alive!"

DJ being given a bar of candy by Zee who doesn't believe him and Chowder once again.

DJ and Chowder continuing to observe the house.

"What is it?"

DJ and Chowder both looking through the telescope.

DJ's eye.

DJ and Chowder sigh dreamily, falling in love with Jenny Bennett.

DJ and Chowder horrified when they see Jenny heading towards Nebbercracker's house.

"Uh, no."

DJ and Chowder rushing to stop Jenny from going near the house.

DJ and Chowder stopping at the edge of the curbside.

DJ and Chowder warning Jenny to not go any closer to the house.

DJ and Chowder horrified to see the house starting to come to life as Jenny is clueless to their warnings.

When the house traps Jenny on the sidewalk, DJ and Chowder decide to risk their lives to save Jenny.

DJ and Chowder running to rescue Jenny.

DJ and Chowder about to catch Jenny before the house has a chance to eat her.

DJ and Chowder grabbing Jenny; thus saving her.

DJ and Chowder struggling to get Jenny to safety before Zee calls out to them, causing the house to revert to its normal form.

DJ and Jenny horrified after their near-death experience.

DJ, Chowder, and Jenny recovering from their encounter with the house.

After helping Jenny up, DJ receives a grateful smile from her.

Confronted by Zee, DJ again explains the house tried to eat him, Jenny, and Chowder.

DJ seeing Zee going to check the house out after she disbelieves his claims again.

DJ stopping Zee from investigating the house by claiming he's just having puberty.

DJ, Jenny, and Zee being spied on by the house.

DJ being told by Zee not to drink anymore Mountain Dew.

DJ walking with Zee who decides to leave in order to find Bones.

"Safe driving. See ya!"-DJ successfully getting Zee to leave and protect from being eaten by the house.

"Oh, hey."

DJ assuring Jenny that he was lying about having puberty.

DJ introducing himself to Jenny.

DJ welcoming Jenny into his home.

"This is um, our little observation post."

"Yeah, posters are stupid. I was gonna tear it down and put up some art."

DJ watching Chowder and Jenny greet each other.

DJ listening to Jenny describe to Chowder how her school, Westbrook Prep is a school for girls.

Awkward silence between the three kids.

DJ and Chowder looking at each other when they both admit to Jenny that they hate Mexican food.

DJ and Chowder watching Jenny going to call her mother about Nebbercracker's house.

"Uh, you know she's probably not going to believe you. It's too much for the adult mind to comprehend."

DJ seeing Jenny noticing his and Chowder's urine bottles.

DJ panicking when he sees Jenny is grossed out.

DJ and Chowder arguing whose urine belongs to who.

"It's his pee."

DJ and Chowder in total silence.

"So, you hate Mexican food, huh?"

"Yeah, in fact, you might say I started hating it first."

"Outside in front of the house?"

DJ and Chowder getting competitive over Jenny's affections.

]DJ and Chowder arguing who fell in love with Jenny first.

"You can't call dibs on a girl through a telescope."

(Chowder: "Well. you can't call dibs on a girl.") "Just did."

DJ noticing Jenny after Chowder does an armpit fart.

DJ hearing Jenny note she normally doesn't hang out with boys, but will give him and Chowder a chance.

DJ and his friends spotting a dog near the Nebbercracker house.

DJ and his friends horrified when the house immediately devours the dog.

DJ hearing Jenny decide to call the police.

DJ and Jenny beginning to worry what will happen to innocent children on Halloween night.

DJ hearing Chowder point out that no one would be stupid enough to walk up to the Nebbercracker house.

DJ stopping Chowder from retrieving his basketball when the house shows it to him.

DJ and his friends realizing the house will lure victims using the toys Nebbercracker had taken.

DJ and his friends seeing a police car arrive.

DJ and his friends meeting Officers Lister and Lester.

DJ and his friends covering their ears when Officer Lester speaks loudly into the car radio.

DJ and his friends telling the cops about the Nebbercracker house, saying a dangerous creature lurks inside while omitting the creature is the house itself.

DJ watching Officers Lister and Lester talk, hearing them name the situation as crazy.

"All right, this thing...it has a mouth and it comes out and grabs things. And pulls them and eats them!"

DJ as Jenny tries to explain the situation to the cops.

DJ and his friends seeing the officers preparing to leave.

"I'll show you, but if things get out of hand..."

DJ having jumped onto Nebbercracker's lawn.

DJ looking back at the police when the house doesn't attack him.

DJ realizing the house is a lot smarter than he and his friends thought as it refuses to reveal itself to the police.

DJ and Chowder seeing Officer Landers gets angry when Chowder throws a rock at the house in an attempt to make it come to life.

DJ and Chowder holding their hands up as Officer Landers gives them a warning.

DJ and Jenny distraught when the cops do not believe them and refuse to help them.

DJ and Chowder trying to plead for the officers to believe them, to no avail.

DJ and his friends ordered by the cops to get in front of their car.

DJ and his friends forced to walk down the street as the cops drive behind them.

DJ and his friends frustrated that police don't believe their story and won't help them.

"We'll go to an expert!"

"His name's Reginald Skulinski. But they call him Skull."

DJ and his friends going to seek help from an arcade game champion, Reginald "Skull" Skulinski.

DJ and Chowder stopping Jenny from approaching Skull.

DJ and Chowder explaining to Jenny that Skull doesn't like being interrupted when playing a game.

DJ and Chowder explaining to Jenny how Skull once played a game for four days straight.

"The man's a legend."

DJ and Chowder being pushed into the Game Zone by Jenny.

DJ and his friends approaching Skull.

DJ and his friends meeting with Skull.

DJ and his friends seeing Skull playing an arcade game.

DJ telling Skull about Nebbercracker's house being possessed.

DJ and his friends watching Skull putting his game on pause so he can speak to them.

DJ and his friends listening to Skull explain how man-made structures can become possessed by a human ghost.

DJ and his friends listening to Skull describe how once a ghost is merged into a man-made structure, a monster is created from that merge.

DJ and his friends believing that the house is possessed by Nebbercracker himself.

When asking how to kill the house, DJ and his friends are told by Skull they must destroy its heart.

DJ and his friends confused on Skull's information on how they need to kill the house.

DJ and his friends after Skull leaves.

When his friends wonder where they're going to find the house's heart, DJ points out smoke has been coming out of the house's chimney ever since Nebbercracker had a heart attack.

Realizing the house's furnace is likely the its heart, DJ and his friends realize they must get inside the house to destroy its heart.

"No, Chowder. This is it!"

"First, we build a dummy. We fill the dummy with a few gallons of cold medicine. You can borrow from your dad's pharmacy."

DJ formulating a plan which is to put the house to sleep by feeding it cold medicine so they can get into the house and destroy its heart.

"Questions?"

DJ dumbfounded when Chowder decides to go along with the plan after Jenny says it's worth a shot.

DJ getting out a vacuum cleaner from his closet.

DJ and Chowder coughing up dust when they open a vacuum cleaner.

DJ getting a water gun.

DJ going to grab the key to Nebbercracker house.

DJ and his friends walking towards the house, hiding in garbage cans.

DJ peeking from the garbage can.

DJ seeing the house is fast asleep.

DJ telling Chowder to deploy the dummy.

"Chowder, come on."

After Chowder deploys the dummy and takes cover, DJ knocks on the trash can where Jenny is hiding.

"Plug it in."

DJ watching the dummy move towards the house after Jenny wakes it up.

DJ and his friends watching the house about to eat the dummy.

"So close."-DJ seeing the plan fail when the police arrive.

DJ and his friends getting caught by the police.

DJ getting out of the trash can.

DJ and Chowder walking towards the cops.

DJ and his friends being told to surrender their weapons.

DJ and his friends having thrown their water guns to the ground.

DJ and his friends seeing Officer Landers has noticed the extension cord connected to the dummy.

DJ and his friends watching Office Landers go to investigate the dummy.

DJ and Chowder watching Jenny being questioned by Officer Lister.

DJ watching Lister question Chowder.

DJ, Chowder, and Jenny are horrified when Landers says that they are going to jail.

"But Officer, you've got to believe us!"

DJ in the police car as Officer Lister puts Jenny inside too.

When the police go to investigate the house after they hear it growl, DJ and his friends try to get them not to go anywhere near it.

DJ and his friends warning the cops to get away from the house to no avail.

DJ, Chowder, and Jenny scream in horror as they watch Lister being attacked by the house.

DJ and his friends horrified when they see the house eat Landers before it eats Lister.

DJ and his friends scared after witnessing the house devour the cops.

DJ and his friends screaming when a tree suddenly lands on top of the car.

DJ and his friends screaming as the house attempts to eat them.

DJ holding onto the car door for dear life.

DJ and his friends as the car is torn in half.

DJ and his friends jumping out of the car before the house can swallow it.

DJ running to escape the house.

DJ and his friends finding the front door locked.

DJ, Chowder, and Jenny inside the monster house.

"I don't think the house knows that we're in here. I bet it thinks we're still in the car."

DJ and his friends hearing the house sleep.

"The only way we're gonna get out of here alive is that we find the heart and put out the fire."

DJ telling his friends if they do nothing, the house will wake up and kill them.

DJ exploring the house.

DJ finding a pair of binoculars near the front door.

"He was watching me."-DJ realizing how Nebbercracker was able to spot him when he got on his lawn.

DJ and Jenny finding photographs of Nebbercracker with his wife, Constance.

DJ and Jenny looking at the photos of the Nebbercrackers' lives.

DJ and his friends continuing to investigate the house.

DJ and Jenny being told by Chowder to fire their water guns

DJ and his friends shooting water at the house's "uvula" after Chowder mistakes it for the heart.

DJ and his friends seeing the house's throat open up.

DJ and his friends watching the house conjure up and spit out saliva.

DJ and his friends seeing a bright light from one of the house's eye window start looking what caused it to vomit.

DJ and his friends hiding.

DJ and his friends watching the house go back to sleep.

DJ shining his flashlight after the house goes back to sleep.

DJ checking to see if the coast is clear.

"Okay, let's move."

"We need to movie quickly and quietly. Don't touch anything and stay together-"-DJ before he falls down to the house's basement.

DJ in the house's basement.

"I think you guys should have a look at this."

DJ and his friends finding a circus cage for "Constance the Giantess."

DJ going to unlock the cage, using the key he found on Nebbercracker's lawn.

DJ having unlocked the cage.

DJ opening the cage.

DJ entering the cage.

DJ inside the cage.

DJ and his friends discovering Constance's corpse, covered in cement.

DJ and his friends finding a shrine around Constance's corpse.

"I always knew you were hiding something, Mr. Nebbercracker."

DJ screams in horror when he sticks his nose to Constance's nose.

DJ having pulled off of Constance's corpse by his friends.

DJ and his friends horrified when the dried cement decays, revealing Constance's skeleton.

DJ and Jenny hearing the house trembling, realizing they woke it up.

DJ and his friends being spotted by the house.

DJ running to hide from the house's spirit.

DJ gasping in horror.

"Chowder, come back!" - DJ sees Chowder heading towards his lost basketball.

DJ seeing the house capture Chowder.

"Oh no."-DJ after the house captures his friends.

DJ getting attacked by the basement stairs.

DJ running as the house's basement stairs attacks him.

DJ about to escape from the basement.

DJ going to rescue Chowder as he hangs on for dear life in the house's throat.

"I got ya."

DJ having been grabbed by the house's tongue.

DJ holding onto Chowder's legs after being thrown down into the house's throat.

DJ and his friends hanging for their life after Jenny grabbed a hold of the house's uvula.

DJ and his friends underwater as water fills up the entire house.

DJ and his friends having been puked out of the house.

DJ after being vomited by the monster house.

DJ and his friends soaking wet.

"What do you want from me Chowder!? I don't see you coming up with any big ideas!"

"Chowder, the house is still alive and you're gonna wuss out!?"

DJ and Chowder arguing over the risks they took to destroy the house and whose fault it is for them being in this situation.

"We are babies! What were we thinking? We tried to put a house to sleep with cold medicine. How lame can you get?"

DJ shamefully leaving his friends.

"I'm going home. I suck."

DJ falling to the ground after nearly getting hit by an ambulance.

DJ on the ground.

DJ surprised to see the ambulance and that nobody is coming out to help him.

DJ seeing a pair of feet exit the ambulance.

DJ horrified to see Nebbercracker reveal himself.

DJ scared as Chowder throws rocks at Nebbercracker, thinking he's a ghost.

DJ and his friends surprised to see Nebbercracker still alive, making DJ relieved.

DJ and his friends hearing the Nebbercracker house's front door creak open.

DJ and his friends surprised to see Nebbercracker's house coming to life where it doesn't attack the old man at all.

"It's her. The house is her."- DJ realizing the house is possessed by the ghost of Nebbercracker's wife, Constance.

DJ going to inform Nebbercracker about the truth of his wife and house, despite his friends' objections.

"Mr. Nebbercracker! I know about Constance."

DJ and Nebbercracker being watched by Constance.

When Nebbercracker asks how he knows about his wife, DJ is unsure how to answer him.

DJ seeing Nebbercracker getting mad when he realizes he entered his house before he calms the old man down.

"You didn't kill her, did you?"

DJ, Chowder, and Jenny fleeing from Constance

DJ and Jenny congratulate Chowder for his apparent victory.

Jenny kisses DJ to encourage him to finish the job and stop Constance

DJ and Chowder take cover in a groove to avoid the explosion.

Jenny saying goodbye to DJ and Chowder while suggesting that they get together again in the near future.

DJ and Chowder sharing a hug with Jenny

DJ and Chowder waving goodbye to Jenny.

Trivia

• DJ is almost like Harry Potter from the Harry Potter series: both are dark-haired, skinny, resourceful, serious-minded, and rational.
• In the early draft of the film, DJ and Chowder are originally going to get bullied by the two bullies, Ryan and Cameron. He will lure them to the house on purpose for revenge. This was scrapped because the studio thinks it will be too dark and possibly not to teach kids to do bad choices in real life.
• DJ, Chowder and Mr. Nebbercracker are the only three male main characters in both movie and game.
• According to the Nintendo GameCube's concept art gallery, DJ was originally going to fight the mannequin instead of Jenny, but it was scrapped for unknown reason and was replaced by Jenny in the final version of the game.