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Fun Fact: The button key was NOT in that drawer until Coraline's mom started looking for it. If you watch frame by frame, the key just APPEARS as she waves her hand over the other keys. Spooky

Something from the book that they cut out of the film: There's an even more horrifying eldritch entity. The house/portal itself. The small corridor/portal is a throat. Throughout the book, each time Coraline goes through the portal, it gets windier (is that a word?). Basically, whatever this creature is, it's waking up. And it's starting to breathe more and more. Not to mention that the walls are damp and filled with large chunks of things once the illusion drops. Also: The Beldam is scared of whatever this thing is. So is the Cat. Whatever it is, it's POWERFUL. There's a theory somewhere that the Beldam is a parasite inside of the creature. So she's not the big bad. Which makes everything even scarier.

As far as the grandma goes. Your point about the grandma is actually a theory for many fans. They think that she noticed that the beldam was trying to entice wybie and so she allowed them to move in so that it would take coraline instead. Especially since she lost her sister to the beldam

It's funny that you say that the movie gave you "The Nightmare Before Christmas" vibes because it's the same director! He's done some amazing work

The irony that this movie used to scare me as a kid and now it’s my comfort movie

Not many people say this so ima point it out. Bobinsky is blue because of the radiation from Chernobyl. If you look at the badge on his chest, it’s identical to the liquidator badge people earned from clean ing the streets in Chernobyl from radiation.

believe it or not, the book is actually way scarier, they toned it down a lot for the movie. In the book, the door is full size, the hallway was completely dark, and when she was escaping, she got the impression it was breathing. When she felt the sides, she described it as "hot and wet, like a mouth" almost like it was a throat. There werent dolls either filled with sand, everything was flesh and blood. Even the Other Mother bled "black, tarry stuff" when the cat scratched out her eyes and clawed her up. When the Other Father was basically discarded, he didnt become a pumpkin. He turned into like this amorphous blob of flesh like a blobfish with loose eyes, and strands connecting his mouth, with stick arms and legs. Something thats also kinda neat, the Other mother's hair floated and drifted around her head. The hand, was also a flesh hand. There was even a scene where Coraline woke up after escaping, to see "a pale white thing scuttle down the gutter, and there were deep gouges in her window" the hand was trying to get to her. The first draft of the film's script was actually so faithful to the book, that the author Neil Gaiman suggested they make changes because it wouldve been way too much for a family film lol

There’s a theory that Vermin or The Cat was once another child that lived at the Pink Palace but either was too suspicious of the Beldam or moved away before she could get him or had a living family or all three but since he interacted with the witch, he was a “ loose thread”. He died having lived a full life but his soul returned as a cat. He failed to save Wybie’s grandma’s sister and that’s why he stays close to Wybie. Both because he feels bad for his previous failure but also because he wanted to be there for Wybie in case the worst happened.

The "She fell...and she fell hard bitch" edit killed me 🤣💀

there are so many theories for this movie, and one of my favourites is that the well was another gateway to the beldam’s world. • the well looks VERY similar to the door tunnel • fairy/witch ring around the well - fairy/witch rings are believed to indicate portals to other worlds • beldams are considered a type of witch - ergo, witch ring • the button over the moon / lid over the well parallel - symbolising coraline/the key being locked into the beldam’s world • whybie says that if you fell down the well, “you’d see a sky full of stars in the middle of the day” - the beldam’s world is only ever nighttime • the doll making scene shows the doll coming to the beldam from a starry sky (the well), she then sends it back into the sky (to the real world) • the ending with the cat disappearing seems to suggest the other world is still accessible • the ghost girl DID say “there’s only one, and the beldam WILL find it” after all… so in coraline trying to get rid of the key, she pretty much sent it back to the beldam, and we have no idea what would come of it because the story ends here 😭

i’m sorry but the dad’s song is easily the best use of foreshadowing, mood setting, and just kinda everything in relation to story that i’ve ever seen

i think you missed the part in the song that’s my favorite “she’s a peach, she’s a doll, she’s a pal of mine (…) we’re never gonna take our eyes off Coraline”

We love the Keith David cat Also fun fact: Merium and April (the two old ladies) are canonically a couple

I had somehow never noticed the cat stopping Coraline when she goes out to throw the key down the well [30:34]. Now I wonder what she should have done instead?

His grandma's twin sister went missing. The doll used to look like her. The other mother changed it and used her magic to send it back into the normal world. She makes a doll for every new victim.

My favorite little detail is the fact that the wallpaper in the intro is a sparrow and a cuckcoo, which is a bird that does brood parasitism, and the fact that the whole doll making intro is done pretty much with the same tools that are used when prepping a corpse for the grave,

Coraline is based on a book by Neil Gaiman, one of my favourite authors. Almost all of the adaptations based on his works are absolute bangers and i highly recomend you watch (and react pretty please) to the stardust film, the sandman show and especially good omens (my obsession). All are absolutely wonderful, spooky, fantastical, and are filled with queer themes and relationships. Great fits for your channel 😊❤️

another detail is when the other mother creates all those meals for coraline as family dinners, she never eats anything, her plate is always empty, the only time she does eat is the 'chocolate' insect in the drawing room

also i dont know if anyone's mentioned yet but the garden in the real world at the end looks like the beldam's face!!

I've watched this movie since I was a kid, and yet it wasn until a couple of years ago that I realized that Mel, Coraline's mother, is wearing a neck cast because of an accident involving hitting the moving truck. That, combined with their heavily implied lack of money, may explain why they're so abrasive and so focused on completing the garden catalogue.

There's a bug theory for Coraline here on KZfaq, it's amazing you've noticed. They said everything in the movie was intentional.

One thing I like about this movie so much is you can see it from both persepectives. As a kid, you see Coraline's parents as neglectful, mean, coldhearted, and rude towards their own child when all she wants is attention which is why seeing her being so carefree and happy in the other world makes you think along with Coraline " wow this world is like 10x better! ". But, as an adult you can kind of sympathize with Charlie and Mel ( Coraline's father and mother ). They have a full time job to try and make ends meet. Needing to buy food, pay bills for their new house, and with Charlie working on an old busted computer it makes it even more stressful cause anything can wipe all that progress and that anything just so happened to be Coraline pressing buttons without reading them. Granted they could have worded it better but sometimes parents just don't have time for their kids and when a kid like Coraline who is very hyper and needy for that attention doesn't get it, she throws a fit over it. She wanted the gloves but Mel didn't have the money for them hence why she told her to put them back and why she was shopping during a sale. She only was able to get them after they got paid for their garden catalogue. But as a parent you don't want to tell your kid that you don't have enough money for stuff. My mom never told us no to something because she didn't have the money for it, she was always say " maybe next time " or " maybe with her next paycheck ". As you grow older you can kind of see that her parents were never truly neglectful they just had very stressful moments when they were forced away from the only work that was making them money because Coraline was whining for them. But as we see things get better in the end, they start getting better income from their catalogue, thus they don't have to worry about money as much anymore and can start focusing on their child.

Mf the clip where hes like "GTFO" and then sees other mother's boots and immediately is like "hol up" got me lmao this my first vid from this dude but loved it

The one scene in this movie that really really haunted me as a child when I saw this in theaters is the other mother placing her hand on Wybie’s head and then saying she “fixed him” so he can’t talk. To me it implied a lobotomy and scared me so much as a kid.

My favorite interpretation is that the Other Mother is some kind of old-school faerie or fae creature. The fae are well-known for legends of stealing people (especially children), luring them with food or sweets, tricking them into agreeing to bargains, and sometimes stealing souls. And folklorically, stepping into a faerie ring of mushrooms (like the one around the well that Coraline steps into at the beginning of the movie) is one way you might accidentally be transported to their realm. This theory especially makes sense considering the original novel was written by an English man, Neil Gaiman, and implied to be set in the English countryside. In this interpretation, the Cat might be another fae creature in the shape of a cat, or it might just be that all cats are kind of magical. After all, they have a reputation for being able to get into places and seeing things that humans can't see; maybe any of them could talk if they went to the Other World.

Yeah, her parents aren't bad, just very stressed. A move, an accident/injury, a deadline, pressure the catalog won't work out, and allusions to the fact they don't really have money at the moment and this catalog is going to be their income. As someone who has a mother who worked two jobs and was highly stressed a lot, as a child it was frustrating when she acted like that, but as an adult, I recognized she did a lot of things to ensure I was fed, had everything I wanted, and made sure we had good memories and vacations despite putting a strain on our finances. My dad was similar to Coraline's too. A little more playful, nicer, but there were times when he's trying to work and I'd annoy him because I was bored.

Idk if other people already said this in the comments here, but Ms. Spink and Ms. Forcible are a couple! It was confirmed some time ago by the original writer of the book, Neil Gaiman

It was my favorite movie as a child. My name is actually Caroline and my mom call me Coraline to this day even tho im almost 22 now haha. it's the opposite situation then the one in the movie. Love the fact that you reacting to it now!!

another secret was the egg yolk right before Coroline challanges the Beldam to a game, if you look closely you'll notice its a jack skeleton head. thought it was worth mentioning

I cant remember where i saw it but, corralines mum broke her neck and im pretty sure she lost her job because of it, corralines dad is the sole provider im sure, the pink palace was cheap and because they lost income they had to move out, so the parents are so incredibly stressed and i don't blame them

Coraline is easing into the month? lol

One of the little details I love in this movie is on the cake they give Coraline to welcome her. In cursive, two loop symbolises smth not true, so the cake is essentially saying Coraline is welcome, but she is NOT home!

Ugggh i hope this one inspires more Laika! Kubo and the Two Strings is epic and the villains "The Sisters" are iconic

Neil Gaiman’s stuff is all so good! If you haven’t seen them, you should check out Stardust, Sandman and Good Omens! Those are some of his other works that have been adapted :)

I noticed this time around that coraline's nose was always crooked and then I noticed that the beldams nose was weirdly upturned, turns out that was all intentional!

Neil Gaiman also wrote a short story (I can't find the title right now, unfortunately), where a cat, that is an angel protects a family from the devil. That would definetly fit your interpretation =)

So even a month late, I have some notes. 1) I'm 31. Last year, I accidentally fell asleep to the audiobook and it gave me some of the worst nightmares I've ever had. I've loved the book since I accidentally discovered it in my elementary school library and I fell in love with the movie the first time I saw it. The book still scares the shit out of me 😅 it is so much scarier than the movie 2) there's a theory that the fog itself is a different entity. I thought it was interesting. This is a really big one for the book because the fog is specifically mentioned A LOT, even when it seems unnecessary 3) there's a theory that as soon as Coraline stepped over the well and into the fairy ring of mushrooms, she disappeared from her world and the entire thing is done by the fairies. This only applies to the movie though 4) if you notice, the Other Father is almost constantly eating. It's because he doesn't know the next time he's going to be able to eat because the Beldam steals children sporadically and lays everything dormant until a child has been found. He's also made of a squash. 5) there's a really fucked up theory that the first time she goes through the tunnel (like the fairy ring theory) Coraline never actually made it back. She's trapped in a separate universe. Because after all is said and done the ending is kind of wrapped with a bow: Coraline goes home, the ghost kids are freed, and the residents are planting flowers in the barren garden. It's a plot to keep her happy so the Beldam can feed off of her life.

If you like Laika stop motion films, you should also check out the film "Paranorman" from the same studio. It's also a breathtakingly beautiful film and Halloween themed

Fun fact, Keith David made the voice for the Cat, and he also stars in Hazbin Hotel as Husk and, most notoriously, Dr Facilier in The Princess and the Frog.

I saw this in theatres when i was like 10 years old and man did it give me nightmares BUT I WAS OBSESSSED WITH IT 😂😭. its really such a good movie, but so much darker than people expect

First video I've seen by you. And wow, I thought I was a fan of this film, and you're out here catching details I've never noticed before like the mark on Coraline's neck after the climax.

Did anything notice that she was not only a spider but like one of those spiders that mimic ants so that was why she was able to disguise Coraline's mother so easily.

9:35 Random but technically no lol milkshakes have an ice-cream and milk base, along with whatever else you want to toss in. Smoothies are usually made with fruit, juice, or milk.

There is a video speaking about the wallpaper you see in the very first scene with the doll making, where the wallpaper is a mother bird killing and eating it's chick, shown by the slit in the baby bird's throat and the blood imagery. It was meant to symbolise the Other Mother and how she eats the children as far as I could remember.

“So we’re in the states” fun fact, coraline is actually originally set in England! It’s said in the book that coralines dad has to go into London for work. Also the “taffy from Brighton” is actually from Bristol. As a Pom I was admittedly a little disappointed when they made her American but I love the movie non the less. I also love the addition of wybies character and the dolls which are a huge part of the movie but both don’t exist in the book. I think laika did a wonderful job at adapting it

One thing that Master Gaiman himself has verified is when he essentially alpha tested the story by giving it to a friend with a child because his manager told him it was too scary and it would never sell: The girl LIED about how creeped out she was, because her mother told her a friend wrote it "for her" as a bedtime story. The girl WAS too scared of the story, it WAS too scary for children, but it went to publication anyway because a little girl wanted to impress her mother... Basically, a real-life Coraline moment...

You’re so right at that the other mother is absolutely SERVING for the entire movie, even when she is a spider demon at the end, she looks cool as fuck

Funny story, one of my cats (a black cat) took about 3 years to realise she could hiss lol. The first time she did it, she was so surprised at the sound, looked completely shocked and confused lolll. She's been hissing ever since for absolutely no reason 😂

Coraline traumatized me when I was young and it still does now, I love it and I hate it.

i love love love that you payed attention to all the details! it's what makes this film so rich and beautiful, everything looks so crisp, and the character and world design is sooo gorgeous and unique

4:30 Fun fact: The movie is an adaptation of a book of the same name from the iconic British author Neil Gaiman, who originally set it in England (most likely nearby London). They changed the location to US Oregon for the film, which I honestly find quite fitting of the tone of the story and art direction. Still, I find that Neil Gaiman's particular British charm absolutely till comes through in the movie (and mind you, I'm Portuguese, so I'm not biased towards any of these countries).

Long ago I lived near Liaka Studios in Beaverton, Oregon. The studio was founded by the son of the founder of NIKE. The studio had a huge exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art. The monster in 'Kubo and the Two Strings was 37 feet tall. Coraline's garden set was huge, maybe 50-60 feet across. The dolls were 6 to 8 inches tall. Coraline's sweater was hand knitted out of sewing thread!!

There's a theory that the Beldam was some kind of witch, and that the cat was her familiar that she named Vermin because she hates cats. It's also the reason he's able to travel between the two dimensions.

Id LOVE to see u watch good omens!! I just watched s2 and balled my eyes out lmao Edit: also Crowley (from good omens) has such a gay walk lol (if u know u know)

There was a theory that Coraline had given the Beldan back the key by throwing it in the well (because the well had a lot of resemblance to the portal in the door) and another saying she had never really left, because she was never seen actually physically leaving the other world until the end (she would just go to sleep and wake up in her 'normal world') and with the cat basically teleporting because he was only seen doing that in the Beldan's world

Those aren’t sowing needles in the beginning of the doll making lol the tools are actually what morticians use to prepare ded bodies 😳

Would absolutely love your take on the other Laika films. Paranorman and Kubo and the Two Strings are both beautiful and have both made me cry. Makes me wish there were more stop motion studios.

This film was both made and is set in my home state of Oregon, and I really love how well they captured that in the film. Oregon's kinda famous for like...being wet, dark, and muddy, and the people here are REALLY weird, but mostly very friendly. Thankfully haven't met any beldams, though.

When I was younger I thought the food looked bussin

Fun fact easter egg: when the other mother was cooking omens near the end one of the egg yolks had the head of jack skeleton in it because the director of Coraline is the same director that made nightmare before night.

fun fact: in the book, which takes place in britain rather than the US, only one of the ghosts has wings in the dream sequence, and the other three eat bowls of ice cream while she has honeysuckle. implying that the beldam doesn't just take human children, but children of the fae as well. and if you know anything about the fae, the fact that the beldam takes _their_ children and they can do nothing to stop her is _far_ more terrifying than anything else about her.

Woooooooooooooo Coraline has been my favorite movie since I was 5

Wanna see something cool? 8:00 & 31:28 27:49 & 31:35 Yes this is theorized to be another portal, evidence would be in at the beginning wybue says "that if one was to fall in the well and look up, they would see a sky full of stars, even in the day-time." What time of day is the other world always set? Night.

Idk how many people know this but the cursive on the cake saying "welcome home" is Particularly intresting. The double loop on the O in home is because in old cursive when you have a double loop in a letter thats only ment to have one the word is proclaiming a lie. On the other hand the one loop is a truth. Thus forth Coraline is "welcome" but she is not "home"

I love how almost all the reactions I’ve seen to this movie people assume the grandma is the villain at first 😭 im just behind the screen like bro leave granny alone she’s been through enoughhh Lol but you should do more animated movie reactions!

A little fun fact about the welcome home cake is that the o in home is written in a way that implies she's lying but not the one in welcome meaning she is welcome but not home I think that it's such a cool detail.

There’s also a theory people think that coraline never escaped the other world

The cat has the same voice actor as the witch doctor from The Princess and the Frog. It's a Disney movie.

4:16 I love that you're making references to the book, even though not having mentioned reading it ❤

I loved this movie as a teenager and im not so nuts about it now but it is a nice to go back to childhood for a bit

The back of the other mothers dress remains me of the pattern on a black widow spider especially when you consider the webs she made

Omg you should Watch good omens!

It always makes me laugh when people hate Coraline’s mum (the real one), cuz my mum is EXACTLY like her, and I didn’t realise she was supposed to be unlikeable 😂 (My mum’s great and we’re really close now I’m an adult)

The theory I’ve always had about this movie is that the Beldam got the key back, if you listen to Wybie talk about the well he says “If you fall the bottom and look up, you see a sky full of stars in the middle of the day” and it’s night the whole time in the other world even when she goes there during the day.

Idk if anyone else already mentioned this, but when the lightning strikes around 10 minutes in its in the shape of the hand! Edit: I love the bit at the end where you go over the hidden details!

Well I guess this will be my motivation to finally watch Coraline

FUNFACT: if you read the book, many fans think that maybe the real monster are the fantasy corridor between the worlds. because in the book the tunnel was scary, almost like going through a mouth and a presence that you felt throughout the trip because it took longer to go between the passages. as if something somebody was watching you even though you could not see it

Neil Gaiman, the author of Coraline, writes some really interesting stuff. I've read several of his short stories or novels that are like this. You take a little mythology, a little folklore, a little good old fashioned fantasy and then you have this Cthulhu vibe running just underneath the surface. So it's just like those nightmares I'm sure we've all had where everything seems familiar but it's just something off that makes it ten times more scary than the goriest slasher film you ever saw. His novel The Ocean At The End Of The Lane does something similar to Coraline.

Theory time…. At the beginning they showed something making a doll… but it was already a doll… so that thing… made it look different by removing the hair…. What if that doll was created to look like the old owners child…. And that child is one of the souls…. they made a doll like Coraline to trap her…… thats why the owner of pink palace try’s to avoid family’s with children……… but thats just a theory …….

Watching this after you watched the your recent episode of Hazbin Hotel is funny because Keith David voices Husk and THIS CAT TOO 😂

When I first watched this, I came in late and missed the whole opening scene so every time i see the opening scene now it's like bonus features or something

The cake the other mother gave coraline had “welcome home” with a double loop on the o of home but a singular loop on the o of welcome double loop means it’s a lie. which means coraline IS welcome, but she is NOT home! also there’s a theory that the cat is actually evil and in the end was trying to stop coraline from destroying the key, but when he saw that she wanted to throw it in the well, aka the theorized other portal to the other world, he felt at ease knowing that coraline just returned the key to the other mother. which is why at the end of the movie, he goes to the other world. also another theory, when coraline escapes the mirror and goes home, some people say the other mother was too calm and that’s cause she didn’t actually return home and it was just an illusion played by the other mother, which insinuates her magic seeping into the real world and her having some control there. also, idk if you noticed, the entire song the other father sang was foreshadowing/warnings “she’s a DOLL, our eyes will be on coraline” he was telling her what awaits her and that they’re watching her just some cool stuff i wanted to point out! hope you read this comment

love the editing love the comments, what a journey def subscribed!😂

he really said "HANDS OF MY WOMAN"

You should watch ParaNorman made by the same studio. The stop animation and story are just as good!

Next Tim Burton film to watch is Corpse Bride!! Trust me you’ll LOVEE IT 🤞

I likr the VERY subtle checov's gun with the beldam's love of a challenge Hell she even makes it mkre challenging to spice it up for herself like when she tells coraline "too easyyyyy" This freakin movir is STILL relevant Also KIETH DAVID CAT KIEHT DAVID CAT

The only reason jts a kids movie is because in the children pre-screening the child audience lied and said it wasnt too scary to not hurt the teams feelings I think thats the funniest part of all this

I used to watch Coraline so much as a kid to the point that my parents named my sister after the movie- we showed the movie to my sister and she loved it too lol

i discovered this movie as a teenager (17yo, i think?) and LOVED it, but i am 100% sure the movie would have bloody frightened me as a kid. such a great thing, beautiful and camp, my first entry into Neil Gaiman's universe. i'm glad you enjoyed it, and you noticed so much things i didn't until today!

Apparently, the author of the book, Neil Gaiman, meant for her to be called Caroline, but there was a typo and he liked the look of it and kept it as Coraline

The Riting on the cake there was a dopple o in the Home that means that she is Not Reallohn home

My theory. Coraline never left. She fell asleep in the other world, allowing the other mother to create multiple loops of worlds.

We would adopt the cat 🐈‍⬛ but only if he wants to be adopted because he seems to like being a free spirit

Coraline is my favorite movie of all times and this video happened to be the first video that showed up after opening KZfaq....amazing! Gladly following you as of today

This is already probably been said by 1000 people, but the other father song was foreshadowing if you look at the lyrics

Coraline's real parents aren't neglective. They're stressed and poor and if you actually notice, they actually had a recent car accident which means hospital bills which means they most likely moved because they couldn't afford their previous home anymore. They can barely afford food. 😢

the editing is soooo funny omg i love your vids

Always, still makes me laugh. EVERY person i've watched it with, at the end " _Wybies black!_ " xD hahahaha