In the book she calls the cops but they didn't believe her.

the book is slightly more disturbing the other dad dies in that book People are asking how he died his body was warped he was an eyeless deformed humanoid

Fun fact: coraline actually called the police in the book

Person: "Why are you afraid of buttons?" Coraline: "Childhood trauma..."

Every theory channel “Coraline did not escape” The writers “I just wanted to make a simple film...”

Coraline is one of those rare cases where both the book and the movie are amazing

On the cake, at the end, it says “welcome home” the “o” in the home is double crossed and when an o is double crossed, it means the person is lying. This means that that she is welcome but she is not home (this theory is from jessi vee,, i think)

Fun fact: At the beginning of the movie when the other mother was untying the doll, it was the doll that was used to spy on the grandma’s sister and when she was untying the doll the other mother is singing but her voice is deep and kinda raspy which means that, that was the voice of the “other grandma” but as she starts to sew Coraline’s doll her voice changes to a softer tone pitch to match Coraline’s mom voice.

So short version Coraline: im gonna leave Other Mother: *Takes out Uno card* No u

You missed a much bigger hint at the end. When the camera pans out from the garden party you will see the garden is in the shape of the other mothers face. This is not a theory. She is trapped.

Plot twist: *The cat didn’t disappear, he just jumped down and we couldn’t see him from our perspective*

I think she did escape but remember how Wybie had said that in the well, day was night and night was day? Well past the door day is night and night is day. Let’s just remember how Coraline had sent the other mother’s hand and key down into the well. I think you know where I’m going with this. *It’s not over.*

dont worry guys...that was just a theory.. *a FiLm ThEoRy*

Anyone else feel bad for the other wybie and father

Nah, the Other Wybie definitely had a mind of his own. Remember when he dropped his smiling act after he and Coraline returned from the theatre? Coraline never caught him frowning, but the Beldam did and told him to keep smiling. He was genuinely unhappy and didn't want to take part in the Beldam's plans.

"*our eyes will be on coraline*" explains that the other parents will always follow her around

In the movie. The other father plays the piano. Listen closley to what he "sings". He is trying to warn Coraline

in the book coraline calls the police but they don't believe her Edit:thank u for 2.8 k likes! this is the most I've ever gotten!

I noticed a detail, But I honestly don’t know what it means. In the beginning of the movie, coraline wants to find an old well. She stepped in a circle of mushrooms that circles around the well and a circle of mushrooms are called a fairy ring. There are many stories about fairy rings but I’m going for the most popular ones. According to many English and Celtic tales, any human who enters a fairy ring will be forced to dance with the creatures, unable to stop until they go mad or perish of exhaustion. Another folklore story is that you should never step into a fairy ring, as you may become invisible or become trapped there forever There’s more info about fairy circles and you can search it up but I don’t get why they put it there and why they made coraline step in it

The cat wants to go between worlds to show her shes still trapped, but the other mother found a way to mute the cat, however she cant take away all his abilities, by switching between realms the cat wants her to follow him back

Children: enjoys movie Parents: dId cOrAlInE rEaLlY eScApE?

Coralline:I did it I escaped Other mother:I’m about to end this girls entire career

Theory: She did escape

Yeah but I think I found a leak in the theory. Because in the beginning, where the other father plays his song for Coraline, which IS a warning, she felt safe in the lther mothers world and there was no reason for the other mother to guide her figures to help coraline. So I think that when even in the beginning Coraline was warned, that the other father really tries to help her...

10:01 “But hey who knows this is just a theory” *bruh*

"They don’t call the police, it’s so unrealistic." So the rest of the movie is realistic?

The creepiest thing about the book that I kinda wish was in the movie was The Rats actual song they sing to her 😳😳😳 And how the song changes depending on which world she’s in

I actually thought about the fact that at the very end, the cat walks and dissapeares like it was able to do, on the other side... which means she IS trapped

Other mother: sew buttons in ur eyes Coralline: *aight imma head out*

If you look carefully When Coralines other parents wanted to sew buttons to her eyes, and she pushed the buttons away, coralines other father looks excited, as if he knows it’s bad but is doing what he is told.

Maybe she didn’t call the cops because she knew that they wouldn’t believe that the parents were trapped in another world.

Ok but my question is, if that was a made up world when she thought she escaped how did the beldam watch her? I mean she didn’t have the doll, she burnt the dad puppet and wybie came he didn’t have button eyes? AND ms. Spink and forceable gave her the item that got her to leave. What I think is that once the beldam realised she escaped she said “I’ll die without you” I have a feeling coraline will become the next beldam. Even if she did drop the key into the portal the beldam did say she would die. So whoever actually makes that univers that world stay there (which I don’t think is the beldam) slowly killed the beldam as she went bonier and bonier as coraline refused. So if the beldam did die... coraline might have to be the next beldam.

The music... CORALINE WENT TO LAVENDER TOWN WHILE LISTENING TO K.K. DIRGE

I was 7 or 8 when the movie came out and.....it scared the shit out of me

He should make a theory answering the question: “is dad winning?”

In the movie it shows that the other mother (the beldam) tells the mute wybe to smile. It shows that the beldam is losing control over wybe, and she had to sew his mouth into a smile because he wanted to help coraline. Therefore, he was trying to help coraline but the bedlam probably figured out he helped her go to the real world, and make his hand into sawdust so he couldn't leave. In conclusion, I believe that the mute Wybe was controlling his own emotions and not the Beldam. He was actually on Coroline's side.

**lavender town music starts playing** **pokémon ad interrupts everything**

Hears the lavender town song.. Well I guess I’m not gonna sleep anytime soon

I just realized something: When Coraline goes back to the "real world" Wydie never takes off his gloves, not even at the garden party.

Coraline: "I'm goin home" Other mother: *uno reverses so she can't escape* Coraline: *"crap-"*

When he was talking about Coraline in full speed, I heard every single word

The book cover looks more scary than the movie itself I heard lavender town music in the background??

I just thought what if coraline is secretly the other mother but in a diffrent paralel universe called the other BAD ENDING where the story repeats and repeats until she went insane enough to eat children ' s souls.

Another clue she didn't escape is when she first enters the other world, she doesn't leave through the door she entered. The other parents put her to bed and Coraline wakes up in the normal world.

I personally believe after she left the first time, she never returned back to the real world after that.

There are probably many different theories... Coraline is such a mysterious movie, but it is likely Coraline did lose...😮

One major hint you forgot to mention that goes along with your theory! Near the end of the movie, the Beldam transforms herself to look exactly like Coraline's real mother without the button eyes. Then transforms back to her taller Beldam look when Coraline goes to hug her. Though, I always suspected Coraline was tricked into thinking she was back home when she first went to bed in the made-up bedroom instead of going back through the little door after her first dinner with the Beldam. The Beldam intercepts Coraline when she tells the Beldam she has to go back to mother number one. From there, the Beldam leads Coraline up to the made up bedroom upstairs in her realm. Coraline sleeps in that bed and appears to wake up back in her bedroom, which I think it's still actually the bedroom from the Beldam's realm. Also, the Beldam has sleeping agents inside the food Coraline is fed the first time Coraline meets her. No telling how long Coraline slept in the made-up bedroom, long enough for the Beldam to modify her realm to look more like the real world while Coraline sleeps!

The most persuasive evidence that Coraline had never truly left was her squid plushie. In the real world, the plushie's top sported a triangular shape, but in the other world, it featured a cat ear design. As the movie concluded, seemingly marking Coraline's escape, the plushie in her room no longer had a triangular top but instead had the cat ears, just like the other world.

I remember when this movie came out I was maybe 7ish?? I kept looking for a small door around my house 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

Do you forget that the spirits said that the other mother will always find Coraline if the key still exists??

I know this was made like 2 years ago, but incase you haven't noticed, you were saying the other father was attacking her as in he specifically when the gloves from the piano were being worn by him and controlling him on the mechanical mantis.

the only reason i thought she didnt rlly escape was cuz 1: the cat teleports in the real world which he can only do in the other world 2: the other mother's hand was able to go to the real world but the other wybie couldnt which was off

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"Why didnt she call the cops?" Well.... WELCOME TO MOVIE LOGIC Edit: how do people like this?

this is why they need to make a second movie i have been wanting them to make a second movie for a long time and after i heard they sold all the things to make the movie with i was heartbroken. i still wanted to send the makers of corline a big essay of why they should make another and i asked i said can i send this to the people who made coriline and they said even if 10,000 people wanted them to they still wouldent beacuse it costs a ton to make a movie and im so sad i really want them to make another one :( sadly i dont think they will im so heartbroken by this

Coraline will always be followed around by the Beldam in some way. ... They will stay with her and she will never be able to forget the Beldam. If her memories are there, part of her soul will be too. Conclusion: no, she never never truly will escape the palace.

That movie scared the shit out of me when I was younger lol

The mother isn't always in control because remember when Wyby wasn't smiling and she told him to smile but he wouldn't so she tied his mouth like that. She wasn't in control then she had to force him to smile..

For me, Coraline won and escaped from the Other Mother. 1. The Other mother created the doll to spy on Coraline's life in order to create a world that she will love. When you see the Beldam creating the doll, you just see her hands not her face. So we don't know her real face and we know that the spider form is her true form. We can suggest that she was saving energies during this time. 2. So in order to trap Coraline, the Beldam used all the power that she had from Miss Lovat's sister. But when Coraline refused the buttons, the Beldam started to be more and more weak. She was losing power on the Other father and Wybie. And when Coraline won all the ghosts's eyes, the Other world destroyed itself. For me, it is impossible for the Beldam to create an illusion of the real world for Coraline. She didn't have the energy. 3. As said, the Other mother knows what Coraline needs thanks to the doll. But, the doll only visited the Pink Palace, not the whole city. How could the Other mother create an entire city if she doesn't know how it looks like? Remember, at the end the whole family goes to the pizza restaurant. 4. The other mother thinks that the little door is the only way to trap children. The cat said that she can't find the other portals to stop him. This why at the end, the hand is focused on the door as the only portal. The cat knows more. He is, also, a black cat which was linked before to witches and witchcraft. So I think he is a protector of the real world and the other world. This why he can travel at the end of the movie. Also if the well was a portal, he would have stopped Coraline and Wybie to get rid of the key. And for the image of the garden, for me it is Coraline's face. Because of the ressemblance to Coraline. Because she won, making her the true captain of her life. And because we don't know the real face of the other mother.

I never thought Coraline escaped because when she goes to the other world for the first time, she falls asleep there and wakes up and everything is "normal". However, wouldn't you think that in order to actually leave the other world she would have to have gone back through the door in which she came? I mean she used the door to get to the other world in the first place. That was honestly my first clue after watching it a few times.

Why other wybie was made out of sand: "mR stArK i DoNt FeEl So GoOd"

Imagine how her parents feel, knowing the last few weeks with their daughter was full of arguments, and ignoring her before never seeing her again. They would probably be regretting for the rest of their lives for not acting differently and getting closer to her when they had the chance.

Personally, I think the Beldam always controlled and manipulated the entire Pink Palace and it's property line all the way out to the well! Coraline and her parents were doomed as soon as they moved there. So, I don't think Coraline ever escaped. I also don't think they really survived the car wreck and Coraline's mother was possessed by the Beldam from the start.

Fun fact: In the book, Coraline actually called the police after she found out that the Other Mother took them, but the police man didn't take her seriously.

This use to be considered a horror movie in my 4th grade class.... *That was 3 years ago*

I know many people have commented on this before, but I'll just put it here for consistency. First off, Coraline DOES call the police. But they tell her that she's being silly, and they leave. For the movie, there was supposed to be a scene where the police do in fact show up at the Pink Palace but they leave soon after telling Coraline to 'stop playing pranks'. They actually storyboarded this part, so it should be included in with the Special Features whenever you buy the CD. This was most likely left out of the movie due to time constraints, but it's still there and was meant to be added in. Second, Wybie is a movie-only character. He does not exist in either the book or the comic (which btw you also left out of your theory). My guess is that he was put in to fool Coraline into staying, without making her realize what exactly was really going on. And also possibly to fill up the spots where they left out the other stuff from the book. Ok, now onto my own thoughts: I do believe Coraline is indeed trapped in the Other World, but she wasn't at first. The Beldam actually allowed her to go back the first couple of nights, so she could want to stay in the Other World even more. Of course, when Coraline tried to go back on her own, this is when the Beldam forced her to stay by possibly blocking the exit and putting up a fake one that just looped back around. Then she constructed the 'game', allowing Coraline to feel like she was in control and that she actually won. Sure, she sacrificed the other ghost kids getting away...but then again, maybe she only feeds on their body's energy instead of soul energy and this is why she makes them put on the buttons (so she can start taking away their energy without outright killing them). Anyways, Coraline ends up 'winning' and supposedly escapes the Other World. But then we see the screen pan out, and the garden is in the shape of Coraline's face. Now, remember that the Beldam made the garden to please Coraline. And since you can only see the design from up above, this is one detail the Beldam wouldn't need to change. Plus, her parents are suddenly just SO happy and apparently have all the time in the world for Coraline...remember, the dad does in fact have a job (he's a writer). Plus, if you follow another theory, they moved because they tried to get money by faking a small car accident (which is why the mom has a neck brace - she got hurt in the accident) and they ended up losing the case. Not to mention that her parents were already on-edge before, so such a sudden switch (especially if they don't remember when they were captured and what happened while they were gone) is really jarring. So, yeah, Coraline is still trapped in the Other World and she's being slowly killed by the Beldam. Though I do agree that Coraline may find out at some point, it will be too late by then and she'll most likely be dead when that happens.

I love the theory but the other world never has daylight, also, at the end it was trying to show the cat going to the other world not disappearing.

I honestly think the other father does care abt coraline due to the fact she has survived longer then the others since the ghosts said how as soon as the other mother gave them the chance to saw buttons in their eyes they immediately said yes.

First time I saw Coraline, I was freaking freaked out!😦

Me: *Explains the whole video to my family* Isn’t that weird! My family: ItS JuST A CaRTo0n!

One word to debunk this theory, look at the eyes of spink and forcible, yep no buttons. Also the other father was not made by the other mother, he was a creature that originated from the other world but the Beldam invaded and enslaved him

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When I was little I wondered what if she didn’t escape and that the ‘present time’ at the end of the movie was just an illusion. It messed me up so bad for a few months.

Other Wybie's hand doesn't blow off because he's near the door. It's because the entire world is falling apart. The Cat doesn't have supernatural powers when he walks about that tree. He's just familiar with the holes in the Other Mother's reality.

Also the other mother can make real eyes, in this one scene it shows the other mother disguised as coraline's real mother.

The thing about coraline is that there are so mant missing points to the story. you can add any theorie to the story and it would make sence, like this video. that is why i love coraline so much. there are an infinite amount of storylines and theories you can make in this movie. I love it

Did you know Coraline’s name was originally going to be Caroline but it auto corrected and the book writer kept it.

Another theory: What if "while Coraline was finding the ghosts' eyes, Beldam went to the real world and fully controlled it?" Just look at it, When Coraline returned to the other world, her parents has been kind to her all of a sudden without any explanations, maybe because they were in a good mood after the promotion or something but they comepletely act like the other parents.

The ghost kids did tell Coraline “Even if you win, she’ll never let you go”.

i think the other mother actually is the puppet master for the whole movie itself. her fingers look like the same objects used to animate the stop motion.

The end picture of Coraline with bloody button eyes... Me: wow that was graphic

Near when she “escapes,” the ghost says she hasn’t one yet but they will protect her. So she didn’t escape

1:31 i seriously love wybies old design

In the book, Coraline states that the other mother cannot create, she can only distort things. So in the movie, Mr. B and the other father distorted back to their original shapes. (A pumpkin and rats) This means that the world that coraline is stuck in will soon crumble and all its people aswell.

Omg now I need a Coraline 2 so bad

Im... Im... Im honestly contemplating my whole life now. This is something I've never thought about, so now we need a caroline 2.

i always thought wybie showing his hand being blown away meant that he was dying, not that he couldn't go with her.

Okay so Coraline was always kinda terrifying for me- heh TwT But, I still like it. So why'd you have to do that? Why didn't you let the horror end?

With the things you have presented here allow me to say this: 1. Mice/rats are much smaller and less complex to keep together and are mindless animals for the beldam to control. 2. Other wybie and other father have more complex bodies and actual personalities. The bodies could be easily controlled but their minds couldn't. That's why the other father apologizes while attacking Coraline and its possible for the mind to be stronger than the body allowing other wybie, who was made as a friend for coraline to play with and trust, to have the most control over himself and help coraline escape. 3. The cat could just be a supernatural being all its own like the Cheshire cat allowing it to teleport with ease in the real world, or there could be much smaller other portals that it can go through but the beldam can not use. 4. Ms. Fink and Forcible are eccentric and interesting women as well as growing older their minds were more focused on their wanting to help Coraline. They probably think that the police wouldnt of helped which they don't especially not in the book. 5. The beldam couldnt of made a second world to trap Coraline in because she was losing her powers which stem from the victims she traps and sew the buttons into. She had already consumed all that she could from the ghost children we see and couldnt of possibly made the world we see Coraline escape into because she literally doesnt have the power to do so. And those are my bullets to sort of counter your theory

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and if you look at the door she used to get back to the 'normal world', it looks like it hasn't been used for years, probably because coraline is the first girl in a long time to go so far against the beldam that she had to use a different portal

Umm srsly the cat dissapearing is going to the other world u know as his line said "She tries to keep me out, But cant and zi can move easily as I please"

So Coraline went missing like Whiby's grandmother's twin sister. This made this a sad movie because I feel bad for her parents :( They think that her last memories with them was of them being moody and telling her to leave them alone. And how everyone reacted to her going "missing". EDIT: I think the cat was collabing with the mother, because of how he says nothing (to make it seem normal) to her. And what happened to her?? What would happen when she grew up (if she can) and becomes aware?

Beginning of the video: *insert backwards Lavender town* Me: Nice

Maybe this is obvious and my regard doesn't matter but from my experience of childhood abuse... The movie is a perfect example of how a child can easily be swayed by a kidnapper's/abuser's kindly lies. Coraline is unhappy with her family, and in her loneliness she willingly trusts the other mother because she conforms to everything she had wanted in her real mother. The cat seems to be the only source of sanity that ever validates her later suspicions. By the time she has to find the children's souls she understands the falsity and deceit that brought her to the other mother. More than any other movie, Coraline influenced me to be wary of strangers and their deceit as a child and for that it helped me overcome my inner thought of "are they doing something wrong or is it just me?". I hope that more movies like this come around for kids to see because it seems to touch the subject so delicately in a way that makes it clear to understand

Dude he’s a good artist juts look at the thumbnail!

We need more stop motion movies. Fantastic Mr Fox is another fav

“Sorry if my voice sounds off” *Voice sounds completely normal*

It makes me angry thinking about how the beldam basically dressed in black face to resemble grandmas mother to lure in her sister

heres my theory: so, black cats are meant to be witches pets and what is the bedlam? a witch, what if the cat escaped her? the cat looks so skinny so its probably immortal or something. the reason it could teleport at the end of the film is because the other world was destroyed, so everything that was being held inside (the cats ability to talk, use powers etc) was released. now about their parents completely ignoring the fact abt the snow on them, their minds must have been wiped. same with miss spink and forcable (idk if i spelt that right). Coraline most likely didnt lose her memory because she's a kid and that is what the other mother wants.