The painting could not have been from the Jones family since when Coraline is exploring the house, she writes on her notepad: one boring blue boy in a painfully boring painting or something like that. This phrase and her intonation and facial expression show that there is no previous connexion between the Jones and this painting

in the book, coraline is afraid of spiders so maybe it symbolises her fear of the other mother

Hear me out. Maybe she did have a child who died. She could have sunk into a deep depression and attempted to kill herself by throwing herself down the well, instead she found this world that she couldn't escape, so she sacrificed her soul to create the magic and allow her to move the world into anything she wanted, perhaps when her soul wasn't enough she was driven insane trying anything to keep her perfect world alive, including stealing the souls of children. I know it's far fetched but still..

Ok but can you talk about the fact that Coraline was suffering of boredom in the real world just like the beldam is in her world

Maybe she likes spiders so much because they're so widely feared especially by children, so when the children she lures in see her true form that resembles a spider they're to afraid to escape. And eventually after taking on her spider like form when she started to replace her body part, her obsession with them became so strong she started to act like one.

the bugs have an answer, in the dvd commentary they say coralline likes bugs, and each time coralline goes back in the other world things get more and more elaborate and over the top. the creators said the beldam went over board on the bugs, because coralline likes them.

who else is obsessed with these theorys 😝👏

GUYS the word "Beldem" is a synonym for "witch". In fokelore, the beldem relates to spiders. I forgot completely how, you'd have to look that up, but I just would like to make that known. (yes I do realize this is a year later) edit: Also that green stone Coraline got? That's whats known as a "witch stone". It's said to protect you from evil and help you find it. Just so you y'know for the future

I think the beldam is based around a wolf spider. wolf spiders sometimes eat their young and will sometimes wait in habitats for prey to pass before hunting them. they also have excellent eyesight and touch (eyes and hands very distinguishable on the beldam). They also carry some of their young high on their back (which could explain the shape used for the beldam's back) and when light is shone on their eyes it is reflected to create a strong glow (unlike other spiders). this could explain why her eyes light up when the mention of games comes up and why the moon (if it is her eye) glows

What if the Beldame fell through the well when she was a child? (explains what she was doing around a well in the first place, her creativity and obsession with playing games) maybe she lured other children into the world to play with her (as she was lonely)

Extremely late, but that painting isn't the Jones's. It can't be. Remember when the dad told Coraline to explore the house. If you're exploring an old house for blue things would you list something of yours? The point was to find blue things that was already in the house. Give her something to do.

maybe the little door actually did lead somewhere in the real world but the grandma bricked it off in an attempt to stop the Beldam?

Any one watching in 2017 please like cause I have a small theory: look at the the moon at either 6:34 or 6:43 pause it and if you notice the light surrounding it makes it look like the BELDAM 'S eye!!!!!

So I have 2 points I really want The Theorizer to ponder on that I have discovered about Coraline that he has *not yet* mentioned : 1) *How* does the beldam know about Coraline's friends in Michigan? When Coraline visits the other world for the first time and she goes into her bedroom for this first time (in the other world) there is a photograph with Coraline's old friends that can *TALK AND MOVE* in the picture. Considering the beldam must have created that, how did she know what they looked *and* sounded like ? Coraline says nothing about a change in their appearance or voice, so it is safe to assume that the picture is identical to the real people. They also call her "Loper" which is a legitimate nickname they gave her, but *how* did the beldam know about this ? 2) Wybie's grandmother: Wybie's grandmother is quite an important character as she A. Owns the pink palace B. Lost her sister to the beldam as children C. Is a relative to Wybie Now, my point is *ALWAYS* when Wybie talks to Coraline and he starts to talk about the pink palace / danger or the grandma's sister, we always hear her interrupt the conversation by calling for him and sometimes ring a bell. When she calls him, she sounds worried and desperate to get him back home. I also believe her timings for calling Wybie home *aren't just convenient*, as in she desperately wants to hide the secrets of the other world and her missing sister too . I have come to dead ends with my points though but I feel that they have a lot of potential and I would be super happy if you could ponder on my points or even expand and include them into a theory. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and have a great day 👍🏼

I really don't think the parents entered the portal, because when coraline goes back into the real world, the groceries that have been on the table, have gone bad and have flies swarming around them, this proves that the beldam controls time, and made it many days until coraline came out of the pocket universe.

Every theory channel has a main movie/game they're best known for The theoriser is best known for coraline The game theorists is best known for fnaf theories

i dont know if this even relates to coraline at all but i feel as if it sounds similar to the beldam. when you mentioned the theories of the boy in the painting being the beldam's son and then another on why she went into the well was to find her son. well it reminded me of the Hispanic legend "La Llorona" . la llorona is a story about a woman who's children had died in a river by her house (some say she drowned them due to frustration from being left by her husband) and anyway as stated in wikipedia ,After she is challenged at the gates of heaven over the whereabouts of her children, she is not permitted to enter the afterlife until she has found them. she is forced to wander the Earth for all eternity, searching in vain for her drowned offspring. She constantly weeps, hence her name "La Llorona."She is caught between the living world and the spirit world. sounds like beldam a lil bit.anyways La Llorona kidnaps wandering children who resemble her missing children. She asks them for forgiveness, then drowns the children to take the place of her own. People who claim to have seen her say she appears at night or in the late evening by rivers or lakes . i feel like this helps explain maybe her thirst for souls of children and explains the picture (that i dont really believe is the jones's)

about the sad boy painting. could he possibly be the beldam's first victim? from the video titled The Secret TRUTH About Coraline [Theory] The Theorizer mentioned the dates labeled above the taffy bowls. he also mentioned that one date was missing. in order for the beldam to survive she needed a child who was living around the year 1900, The Theorizer initially presumed the cat to be the beldam's first victim who escaped but that theory was later disproven. so instead of the cat perhaps the boy in the painting was the beldam's first victim who had escaped, thus causing her to take a skeletal spidery form.

Maybe when you pointed out in one of your videos that the rats/mice bring toys and such to her from the real world. Thats where she got the food from and maybe why the food in the fridge of the real world was empty. Maybe she purposely took the food from the fridge so the real mom would have to go shopping

Theorizer: I don't want to dig too many layers down. Also Theoizer: WELCOME TO CORALINE THEORIES, THESE ARE OVERLY-COMPLICATED AND DIG VERY DEEP!

Okay, so, this is what I think that happened: The Beldam moved to the pink palace. At some point, for some reason, she fell into the well and appeared in the void we call "The Other World". My guess is that she couldn't remember it (I will explain later), so, in order to survive, she used her own soul to create everything she needed. That's not news. Well, as we know, she found out that her soul wouldn't last forever, so she decided that she needed more. To get someone's soul, you need his or her consent, and since it would be too hard to convince an adult to say yes, she started dragging children into The Other World (also because their soul is the purest). I think she knew there was a little door in the living room and then created, by using all that remained from her soul, she made that tunnel. That is why it gets deteriorated when she starts losing her magic at the middle of the movie. Well, the portal in the well has magical power over its surroundings, and since the Beldam had basically become the owner of the Other World, the clouds were shaped like her hands, as if they were saying "there is something dangerous here". That's why those clouds fade away when the Beldam dies. Okay, this comment is getting quite long. I'm going to write my main ideas: -The Beldam is connected to Wybie's grandmother, since she got her twin sister's soul. I guess the cat could feel what was happening and, fearing that the Beldam could hurt Wybie by using his grandma, he started to watch the boy. Something that could proof their connection is that scene in which the doll watches Wybie telling Coraline about this grandmother's missing sister. Not much after that, the grandma calls. Why? Because the Beldam was afraid he would make Coraline afraid of going to the Other World, so, somehow, she made the poor old lady feel like something was "wrong" (as if there was danger outside) and called Wybie. -You can't remember what happens when you "move" from a world to another". That's why Coraline parents (who probably entered the little door Coraline left opened while looking for her) could't remember what they's gone through and why the Beldam didn't want the key to fall through the well. She didn't REMEMBER it could lead the key to her world. The only reason why Coraline remembered is because she ATE the food the Beldam gave her, and it was full of soul dust. The Ghost Children mentioned the had a lot of delicious things to eat apart from all the toys and entertainment. By eating, they carry some of the Other World with them and could remember it. That explains why the Beldam is always cooking. She needs Coraline to eat, to REMEMBER her and to feel like coming back. The cat could also remember because, as he claimed himself, the cats have "superior scents".

Ok omg I'm so excited about this. You said that the beldam can only alter, not create. What if there was someone before the beldam? The beldam has lots of traits and things resembling a spider. What if the "someone" before her just took a spider and altered it into the beldam? That's why her face and parts are replaced or deteriorating! What if there's a whole other force behind it, and the beldam needs the children for something bigger than her?

will you please make a playlist of all of these theories so it is easier to watch all of them in order

What if the Beldam's eyes were the stone thing that Coraline looked through to see the other eyes. It makes sense because the Beldam hid the eyes, so she knows where they are, so her eyes can see the kid's eyes

Also, a Coraline question: If the Beldam's hand pulls Coraline away from the well, why does it try to push in YB? Does she think she can take his soul and repower her world?

If her eye is the moon, why does it "break"?

i think that the beldam looks like coralines mom because the beldam wants to sorround her with familiar figures so she can gain her trust

I actually have two potential theory's about the Beldams bug obsession that I've never seen or heard anyone else bring up or talk about. 1) The first theory I came up with was that the beldam has an obvious obsession with bug because they fascinated her but she was especially drawn to spiders. This maybe caused her to read a lot, as she likely would have done at the time, and it eventually turned into her doing a lot of research on them when she was in the real world but now she uses them as a type of ground almost, like they remind her of a life she once had even if it is subconsciously. That was my theory for a long time but it never felt full enough. I didn't have a lot to base it on it was just something I thought of and it made a lot of sense so I ran with it... Until I figured out my second theory. 2) She has an obsession with bugs because of the relatively free lives they live while she trapped and just wants to be free again even though it may be in. She has a deeper connection, pull, or she is more draw to spiders because 1. They sit in there web usually out in the middle of nowhere which is a home they built like her sitting in the void in a home she built home. 2. Spiders wait for a bug to fly into there web like she does with the kids 3. Also some spiders can alter there appearance like her This is just a few thoughts that ran through my brain as I was coming up with this theory. They also carry more weight and have a lot of support for my theory in the movie.

Actually the first time I saw the movie since I was 5 or so I was learning about mythology, and ONE in particular reminded me of the belldam, it was about a woman who thought she was the greatest seemstress and better than Athena (god of wisdom) herself so Athena and the woman had a competition over who was the better seamstress and the woman lost so as a punishment Athena turned her into a spider ( the first of its kind) so I did more research into the story and one of the paragraphs said that spiders are seen as the makers/creates of new beginings. I don't know its something that has been on my mind for awhile and I wanted to get it off my chest and I hope it sparks something for the spider belldam question...

I think the lady represents Arachne, from a greek story about Arachne becoming the first spider from being defeated by Athena.

I’m just gonna pop in to mention that insect intelligence is surprisingly high, they’re not as simple minded as once thought

I think the blonde boy in the painting was in the previous owners since when Coraline's dad told her to list stuffs she found, she wrote the boy on the painting which means the Jones family didn't brought in the painting with them while moving in. If they did, Coraline will definitely know it's their painting so she already knows it, and wouldn't write it down with a serious-ish confusing face.

Did anybody ever notice at the very end of the credits it says "For those in the know: JERK WAD" LOL, I just noticed that.

Their is a book. Could you talk about the book? And how they are diffrent yet some what the same? LIke if you agree! I can't wait!!!!!

I got a idea! Coraline's real mother and father went into one of the other portals and the other mother probably made food and it had a kind of potion or something. And that something made the mother and father forget all of that day. Then they didn't notice that it was a day.

To add on to my theory I left in the comments of the last video, the mom keeps mentioning the car accident and seems to be subtly trying to get Coraline to remember it. If they did die, the parents may have accepted their deaths and tried to help Coraline move on. This may help support why the parents were more irriatated than Coraline remembered and caused Coraline to act out and adventure around the home they were supposed to go to. This may be why she can see the ghosts when wybie cants, any why wybie thinks she's crazy when she tries to explain everything she saw when his grandma saw the same thing and told him about it. She can find paranormal things easily, such as her ease to find the fairy ring and can use the candy sight thing. She's naturally now paranormal and all the events may be her denial of her own death, she's strong and so I her soul so her denial would be soul. By the time she can't find her parents and accept that they may not come back, which causes her to cry and change slightly, even when she still has a little fight left, because she may still be indenial. But she ultimately and slowly accepts that she's dead which is why in the end, those whom have died or live there, where her soul haunts, live peacefully amongst each other

In your last video you pointed out that the book said that Beldam put her mother in the grave herself and when she found her trying to crawl out she put her back. Beldam put her mother in the grave because her soul stealing started in the real world. part of the definition of Beldam is "a witch." her mother was a good witch and the original Beldam. she caught her daughter stealing souls of children to keep her youth. Beldam's mother disapproved which caused her to be killed by her own daughter. the black cat is not a reincarnation of a child who escaped but the family's "familiar". the cat knew Beldam has Always loved games and the cat tricked her into the bottom of the well as revenge and to bring justice for killing her mother and the towns children. at the end of cocaline we can see the Beldam is absolutely terrified of dying which is presumably why her soul stealing first began. while in the bottom of the well she used the only things in her possession to try and save her life. buttons, thread, and a single needle. Thus she created a portal to the other world which greatly slowed her deterioration and causing her need for children to drastically decline. Sorry for format and horrible writing Im on a phone.

I don't believe that the painting was part of the Jone family's property. In the movie when Coraline is counting the stuff in the house she counted the painting of the boy as part of the house so I believe that painting doesn't belong to the Jone family.

I think that the Beldam's connection with spiders is just symbolic of her character. She preys on things less powerful than her, entices them into staying with her, and destroys them. Her supposed hospitality is a web and lure, the children are the bugs, and their souls are the spider's sustinance. And of course, the Beldam represents the spider.

regarding moms “key selection” when looking in the drawer. it’s semi common for people to have a “key drawer” where various keys from around the house get left. considering coralines family has just moved in, it’s no surprise that there would be a key collection in a drawer from the last family that lived there. further more, mom knows the little door is made with an old school lock/door knob meaning it’ll take a “skeleton key” to unlock it. she looks in the drawer and sure enough the only “skeleton” style key is the odd button one. she try’s it to uncover bricks... because she’s an adult, and the beldam doesn’t want her attention. :P the real question by me is why did the old wallpaper around the little door need to be ripped open if coraline went through it just the night before? :)

What FNAF is to MatPat is Coraline to you.

what if the painting is of her child. do you remember when she failed to take the cats soul? well maybe she first used her sons soul because the void is evil twisting her mind and then she used her own soul to keep the magic when she couldn't get the cats soul. maybe she used webs is because everyone is scared of spider's , the void has made her evil so is now a twisted human controlled by the void the other world. so now she is described of what lots of people fear.

At the almost ending when she was trying to find her parents ( before the beldam makes the giant spider web 🕸) The part where the beldam coughs the key 🔑 out, while that was happening, coraline saw her parents in one of the snow ❄️ Globes. How did the beldam control the mom and dad popping up on the snow globe If she was literally standing behind coralline trying to get the key to prove that her parents aren’t in the small door 🚪

I don’t know if you have already found this. But the tree in the real world is in the shape Of the beldams hand.

how about at the end of the movie? when coraline went to the grandmother and she says that she's got so much to tell her? what did she exactly say? also how does the grandmother not lose her memory? and what did she actually say to her parents about her sister? did the grandmother go the otherworld? did she see everything? how did she manage to escape? why didnt the beldam kept going after her so hard? does the neighbors know about beldam? how does that guy the neighbor "i dont know his name" talk to mice? how does the mice tell him about beldam? at the end of the movie notice how the beldam could use her hand and follow coraline to the well, they broke her hand and covered it with the key and threw it in the well, isnt the well a portal to the other world? it will just go back to her, okay if the well IS NOT a portal, couldn't beldam just reconnects her hand and takes the key? i mean she used it to follow and attack coraline so i think she can reconnect it.

@The Theorizer This may be the darkest theory that I have just theorised.Back then in Ashland Oregon when it was first created Beldam was involved in one of the biggest events in the Film's history.And that was the Salem Witch Hunts in Ashland Oregon. www.ashlandhistsociety.com/Pages/SalemWitchTrials.aspx Basically the Villagers lured Beldam out into the open and killed her via Drowning and her remains was never extracted from the bottom of the Well.Meanwhile the Black Cat symbolises the Salem's Cat and as for the stitching equipment and usage of puppets symbolises to me of Voodoo and WitchCraft. Beldam in her past life was a Witch and in order to get revenge of all of those Villagers who killed her she went and killed off their lineage.In other words their future children. She would befriend the children and extract all of their life energy for her to absorb in order to maintain her body in the Other Realm and her Spider form is that of a Black Widow which are a native species to Ashland Oregon which explains her infatuation with Spiders.Also the Villagers killed Beldam in the day so her spirit will always see the night time starry sky and that portrait in the other house must be a reminder of the day that Beldam died.It's a memory that she would never forget. To finish off the term Beldam equates to "Witch" which reinforces this theory.

What if coralines mom and the beldam are the twins in the picture, and the beldam was the one taken. This isn’t a good theory, but it just came to my head as a thought. 🤷🏽‍♀️

When coraline was listing all of the things in the house, she listed the painting as if it was originally there

Why did Beldam change her appereance first when she knew Coraline would be afraid of it?

The jones family didn't bring the painting with them because when coralline counted the doors and windows that were in the house, she wrote down 'a boring blue boy' she wouldn't have written down that it was already there if they brought it with them

What if the keys are 2 sets for the real world and then the other set for the other world, look at them half of them are the same colors there's only 2 of the same color for each key

The bedlam is freaking CREEPY. when I first saw this I was like “NOPE”

Plot twist: The other world is the real world and coraline is just having nightmares.

I have a theory that at the end when the cat went back into the Other World it was to get a prize from the Beldam for winning the game that they were playing. The game was to see if he could save Coraline from her and once he won he'll help the Beldam capture Coraline.

I have a theory... Coraline has butterfly hairclip right? That's probably her spirit animal. So what if a spider is the other mother's spirit animal?

Woah! All of your story’s are awesome!

why didn't coraline lose her memory of the other world like her parents & why did the parents lose the memories unlike coraline?

So why does sleeping take Coraline from the other world to the real world?

So bad that i didn't saw your videos at the time, but better late than ever, you just got a new suscriber here man

Everyone's sharing there theories and I'm just here reading all of them while watching the video 😂😂

Spiders and bugs have many eyes.

i've watched coraline many times today. And i've found somethings, when coraline's other dad sings her a song on his piano, listen to the lyrics its says, "All our eyes will be on coraline". and also he says "shes a doll". The other mother always calls coraline "my doll". Other mother said to coraline "soon you'll see things our way", meaning like when coraline has buttons she will see like they do, or that if coraline doesnt agree to having the buttons sewed into her, other mother will force it. When coraline walks around the world and the cat talks to her, she finds out things, and the rat plays his trumpet, the cat said "This one was sounding an alarm". Meaning the rat was spying and that it was warning the other mother that she found out things, and that also means the other mother knows that she knows; so why does the other mother act like nothing happened or that she doesnt know that coraline knows.? When coraline returns to the other mother in the "Bug room" after finding all three souls she says " so your back" and she says the cats name like she knows him.

I just wanna say, watching this as a kid and having been watching it a lot again these past few months, thanks for making me appreciating one of my favortie movies a bit more.

I find it interesting that at one point in the movie, Coraline asks where somebody is and the 'other father' says "He/she had a long face, and mother didn't like it". Then, after that, the piano covers his mouth and shakes it's finger. Maybe the piano was trying to do something similar to protect the Bel-dam, 'fearing' that Caroline will choose to escape in result of that statement. So, the point of my ''mini-theory', maybe the piano was a living thing before becoming a piano, and doesn't want to get 'punished' for letting the father reveal such a creepy statement.

I noticed after rewatching Coraline that the scene where Coraline goes up to the well for the first time, you notice a circle of mushrooms which is also known as a 'fairy ring' or a 'Pixie ring'. They can be considered to be good luck but are more popularly known for being a bad Omen. They are also considered to be portals to other worlds, which is interesting to the theory that the well is a portal to the 'other' world. Also in the movie, you notice that Coraline steps into the 'Fairy Ring', which is very very bad luck. It's said if you walk into the middle of a 'Fairy Ring' you are said to "die young". Which is very very interesting!!!

How does the bedlam see coralline after she locks the door? When she has no buttons to see with? It's just her hand running after coralline. She has no way of seeing her 😨😱😰

The little statue that looks like a flamingo in front of the house switches from left to right in the 2nd and 3rd visit, the camera is in the same angle so why did it change?

Two things: 1. For the blue boy there probably isn't any important relationship with it, apart from making the other world more at Coraline's standards in the movie. Like you said in one of the previous theories, the Beldam adjusts the world to the kids' standards, so in Coraline the picture in the other world was adjusted to make it more her standards (which relates to how the boy still has his ice cream in the other world and doesn't in the normal world). 2. For the spider obsession from the Beldam, as you said in this theory, she can only altar objects from the normal world as a base for her creations, so when she fabricated her life to stay alive she needed to use an object to stay in her physical form. So, maybe she used something like a spider to maintain her corporeal (I think that's the word) form in the other world and that might be when the obsession came to play. Maybe when a new life is created from an object the life has some traits from the original object, which relates to the Beldam's behavior in the web scene. Well, that's my take on some of the lingering ideas and I hope you take them into consideration :P

What if Beldam got lured into the well the same way all of the kids got in. The other world had her favorite thing, spiders and she got lured down the well. She then signed a deal, get yourself and the world souls and become a spiderhuman thing with immence power. She agreed and became the creature. With these new powers, she could do all the things she does. The questions I found that is still unanswered and important is who or what made the deal with and how does it help them.

There is one thing I don't understand, what was the room that the lost souls were in?

I am obsessed with these!! Been binge watching these all night. ♥️

I have a theory. I think that Beldam and Other Wybie have a bad connection. I mean, when Beldam lets Coraline in the house after the show, he frowns when Coraline goes inside. Beldam then turns and tells him to SMILE. And later in the movie, when Wybie grabs Coraline from the mirror, he's mouth is forced into a smile. I think this means that Wybie has a control over his soul still, and is not doing what she wants him to do. Have you noticed all the button eyed characters are SMILING? I think that this means that the soul has been dealt with. And when Wybie's forced smile is taken out by Coraline, he hushes her and rushes her to the door. I think when the button eyed people are not smiling, they get a little, grumpy. And to add to that, when Beldam tells Coraline to say sorry and she refuses. Then she starts growing and stops smiling. And she was when Coraline said no, she was trying not to frown. I think she transforms as a form of disipline, as someone did not do as she said. Example, Wybie had frowned and later on, gets forced a smile. Just a SMILE theory, I call it. :)

Me and my friend are having a sleepover and we just decided to try and think of some points why this theory is holey (please don't hate it's just for a bit of fun). 1. Why did the parents see the door when Coraline left it open and not when she tried to show it to them before? Some of you may argue that it was because the Beldam didn't want to kidnap the parents at that precise moment. However, people say she lives off people's souls. Why not the parents and Coraline? Why didn't she let them go through before? 2. (This view is my crazy friends and just meant to amuse you) The picture was hung up in the LIVING room, maybe to suggest that it is something like Alma - a short story on KZfaq - so he is kinda living in the picture. 3. Why can't the Beldam create? You said she might have created the opposite world, but apparently she is inable to form humans from nothingness. This question is weak but we still thought we'd include it. 4. This isn't really a hole in the theory but oh well. Where did the buttons come in? Is there perhaps a past on it, something to do with the boy in the painting or something. Please don't hate we are just nerds who want to type something 😂😂

Perhaps the button key was calling to Mel to be used on the small door? Similarly to how you once mentioned that the well might have been calling to the Beldame.

I like how you're interactive and respect and credit your viewers' insights

I have an idea. If the Belle-dame is looking for a child to replace her kid.. what about that indicates he died? What if he ran away? What if he was kidnapped? Maybe he fled... ending up in Pontiac or somewhere near. So on so on, he has a son or daughter who have a daughter. BAM! Idea to explain how Coraline COULD be related to the Belle-dame!! Hallelujah!

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Coraline is the dragonfly (her spirit animal, her hairclip) and the other mother is the spider. Spiders and dragonflies are both predators. It's a war of life or death between the two

Thanks so much for making this video. Love iiiiiiiitttt!

I don’t think that the ice cream boy painting was coraline’s family painting because when coralline sees it, it’s like she’s seen it for the first time because she taking notes on it and stuff

I guess she likes bugs because they reproduce alot and don't require much to grow giving her lots of soul dust.

who else watched Coraline right after this? just me? ok ;--;

what I dont understand is when he says there are many many many doors that there are keys to why do they have all the keys.

I know this video is old, but a theory idea popped in my head about why the Beldam is obsessed with spiders (be prepared, it might break another level of depth). It all stems from The Beldam's beginning, when the town of Ashton was being built/colonized. The lands were still occupied by the Natives, though not as much as they had been when the first settlers arrived. That being said, their lore and religion would have still been known about. This is big because many tribes had a Spider Goddess. Spider Grandmother (or Tse-che-nako) was believed to be the creator of the world, the starry sky, string games and fire. (Im kind of freaking out on the connections here...). Could it be that, while alive in her time, The Beldam not only idolized but worshipped this goddess? Could be how she received her powers, too? Another fun note: Those that believed/worshipped Spider Grandmother NEVER spoke her real name (Tse-che-nako) out of fear, unless it was on a day of celebration for her. I thought this was interesting, considering we never hear the Beldam's true name. Anyway, food for thought. About to watch the 7th installmemt, so might see your take on it there, ya? Truly enjoy your theories on this :)

So. I hope you read this, because I feel very passionately about this. Now, I don't really like looping theories developed in the movie back to the book, because they are different, but I would like to just a little bit. But first, with eye flashes, I think since she doesn't have eyes to portray excitement or interest, it's how the movie makers went showing that. Nothing more. Now in the book, all he uses to describe her is spiders, spiders, spiders which is frequently alluded to in the movie. Now there may be a deeper meaning, but I think it's really how she decided to mold herself, if she's going to be catching kids, she could be the best intellectual predator. And spiders are that. I think it was probably a conscious decision of hers to act and be a spider to fulfill her plans, and the descriptions of her reflect that choice. Finally, when you referenced with the void calling, there is something like that in the book. When Coraline is travelling between worlds and leaving, the author describes something evil, and much, much older than the other mother. I know that isn't a lot to work with, but could this be the void calling to the beldam? Hope this helps for your quest for the secrets of Coraline.

Looking at how many keys there are I the draw and around the house, it doesn't add up. As a suggestion, the other keys could be other door ways to the Belldams world, or even different worlds. What if the whole house was like a corridor. Each one used with the correct *magic* key leads to another world. Also, what would happen if they cut down the wall where the door is? My theory is that it's not the door using magic, it's the key(s). If you cut down the wall then rebuilt it with the SAME door but a different lock, it wouldn't work yet if you recreate it ANYWHERE in time and space and put the correct key hole in, it works.

I meant to comment this on a previous video but couldn’t remember which one. If you go back to the beginning of the movie when the mom goes to cut the wall paper to open the door, if you pause it fast enough, you can see the tunnel but almost as it appeared when it was web-like and not colorful. It isn’t that much noticeable because when the door opened all you see is brick. I feel like at this moment, you can somewhat tell the Beldam is lacking in a lot of power from years of not having another soul and has to use brick to cover it up from her mom seeing it. In my opinion, when coraline began showing interest in what’s behind the door, that’s what began to fuel the other world and give it the necessary amount of energy required to mimic her own.

I never thought that a 90 minute movie could spawn over 7 videos, countless theories, and even more!

A few questions about the void wanting to fill its self, would it want more than just the Beldam? what if hypothetically coralline didn't left the door open and void opened it for the parents to find.Could coraline's mother have been influenced by the void to find the right key for the right door? If what you is true about the void being the true enemy, exactly how much control does the beldam actually have in it?

i have three questions: 1. who would have sewed the buttons onto the beldam? 2. if the well is the portal, where does it lead to in the other world? when coraline was walking around, she looked for the well, but couldn't find it. when coraline threw the pebble, the beldam's hand and blanket and key in, where in the other world did it end up? 3. if the theory that you has does exist with the beldam being the original settler of ashland, why does the extent of the other world go throughout the town? why does it just stop and turn into a world filled with nothing? coraline states that it's a "small world" but can't the beldam make it bigger?

I think that the Beldam may be obsessed with spiders is hidden in one of the last scenes. When the Beldam tries to trap Coraline in the room that turns into a spider web, the cat claws her button eyes out so she cant see (or maybe she couldnt see to begin with since the buttons are sewn into the eyes which would make the person blind) so since she cant see she waits for Coraline to move, causing a chain reaction in the spider web that tells the Beldam exactly where Coraline is without having to see her. It was as if Coraline was a fly and the Beldam was a SPIDER. Like prey and predator. I think that the Beldam was blind even with the button eyes because in a previous video you talked about the children going blind when she sewd the buttons into their eyes so they couldn't see what was happening in the (other) world around them. Maybe all she could do was use her other senses other than sight since she had the buttons for eyes. In this video you talked about the moon being her "eye" that she lost from sewing the buttons in. If thats correct then i think she can see only when the moon is uncovered by the button. She can also use sound to hear where Coraline is which is why she was still able to "stare" at her. (Im going a bit in detail and this was pretty long so ill end it here)

The triangle stone that you can see through is a witches stone A.K.A hag stone or adder stone. The author is from northern Germany. In norther Germany there are actually lots of round glassy stone with naturally occurring holes in the middle. It is commonly believed they protect people from witches, hence the name. It is believed that through the stone you can see faeries, (invisible things, fallen fairies/spirits (Faerie also mean invisible world)). However in the movie they created them wierdly, and that's not in the original "kid's" story. I believe if you look at where the author is from you can find different, and creepy stories, that played into his. There is a whole lot of background you can find. That could definitely make this more creepier. This was originally made for his own children :P.

how can Coraline get teleported back to the real world when she goes to sleep in the other world??

I and my sister know who the boy is in the painting and its a funny nod to one of Tim Burton's books lol The kid in the painting is called Oyster Boy and he is from a book of Tim Burton's story's previous to this movies existence :) Its a great book that came out a couple of years before Coraline and it even had other characters stories such as the Staring Girl and Matchstick Girl :D Oyster Boy's story ends a bit sad in the book though.

The painting was always there ever since the beldam's ownership of the Pink Palac. There is a frame in the movie in the other world of the painting of the blue boy happy with ice cream I agree with BATTMan with the" it being her former son" part. Anyway, she changes the painting in her world from sad to happy in an attempt to soothe her pain of being away from her son. When it turns out that isn't enough to satisfy her pain she replaces the thought of him with an actual child but ends up running into a problem with needing more magic. In an attempt to keep the magic supply going she tries to sew buttons onto the eyes of the pioneer girl thinking she would stay she same energetic, kind child. The Pioneer girl ends up dying and the Beldam moved on to the next victim knowing it will have to be a similar cycle.

This might sound dumb, but here's what I think: I think the beldam had a child who was board with her taste of fun and killed himself, which left the other mother in a depressing anger. So she committed suicide to be with her son, but ended up in a house instead. She thought the wide warp would become a area. And he parents sold the house, and decided to invite a family of 3 to live there without knowing about the door. When coraline gets inside overnight, but does not in the book. I think it's because she's cracking codes with the wrong answer's. She's learning the wrong lessons. I personally think the other world is a metaphor of boring fun family's, and putting boring family's lives in a void of fun. It craves coraline so she can rip the sheet of paper to reveal the secret. It proves what bugs did to control the mice to lure the cat. Then: There's coraline. Coraline is trying to leave the world so she can come back and become one with the buttons. So does that mean coralines the villain? No. No it does not. But! It confirms the other mother is a beggar, and wants coraline to stay a few minutes longer so the layer builds up. She makes arachnidphobia, and entomophobia to bring in musophobia. She collects phobias of the animals she mainly uses to scare coraline at the end of the timeline so she can leave and be board again. The other mother is tired of coraline. She is mad at her for not having fun. Shes furious about it being all a dream that coraline had. So she enslaves mice with the sawdust, leave the body of the bland object behind, grabs the buttons, and then shares the fun of it with coraline. Jesus hogs redemption. And the other mother is an unholy figure to lure children. And people are saying: " XxgachaoreosXx animations and other things. You are a blind inbacile! " Well people people say the slapstick fun of the serious troubleshooter is a safe drug that children accidentally use to get lured into traps. Wanna know why? The buttons in the people's eyes. Not to mention that she is grabbing the belongings of the children. Not the eyes, not the fun, not the magic. Coralines docile protection. She despises coraline for not wanting to stay forever. And leaves the other mother in a way she can ignore the pain. But before she can numb it, she has to confess she wanted to stay before she wanted to leave. But rather, a hide she can't tan to intimidate the fun, and controll it like a puppet. She has autophobia. She wants coraline to shred the betrayal. She is done with it. She is craving every second of it. Boom! Wrapped like a Christmas gift!

Notification squad where u at?!

It's up I was waiting for this 😭

What about if all the kids are related somehow. Giving the fact that Wybies grandmother gave her the will to move in when Wybie early states that the grandmother doesn't let kids move in. This can maybe just be random, but it seems so on time and matches up with your theory's. With the web and how Coraline falls down it, gets stuck, and makes vibrations causing the beldam to hear her, what if that's her connection to the real world? When Coraline is exploring in the living room, the doll knows where to got at the right time, maybe because it sees through the eyes, but she can see outside of the places she made, and the hand later on doesn't have buttons, so the hand can tell where it is going due to the vibrations everything around it is making. The "web" can also explain why she has so much control over the real world. She possibly marked it somehow, leaving a trace of her everywhere.

Have u looked on shmoop for ideas for coraline theories? And please keep doing these theories I love them!