Saw
Monster House, a CG animated flick about kids battling a neighborhood house which is haunted.
Pixar quality animation aside, the film has more in common with 80's popcorn horror flicks like
Nightmare on Elm Street and
Fright Night, than Pixar's movies; you know, the ones where the cops are lazy assholes, babysitters try to make out with their punk rocker boyfriends and nobody, including their parents, (or rather, especially their parents) believes the teens when they try to tell them about the MONSTER.
This being a PG rated movie (still bold for an animated flick), there's no overt gore/nudity and the closest you get to morbidity is an already buried corpse (there's a joke in there somewhere
), but the movie still has some gripping moments, the major plot twist is more affecting than the million odd "let's think of some crap to sell these toys" storylines normally used for the Dreamworks cartoon flicks, and the climax where the haunted house, taking inspiration from Stephen King's
Christine, decides to take matters in its own hands is surprisingly intense given the normal audience demographic of these films...I suspect a fair number of kids who saw this film had some bad dreams later.
