Coraline's Scariest Monster Is NOT the Other Mother
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2019
- What's the scariest thing in Coraline? You may be surprised to find that it is NOT the sinister Other Mother... Join me as we uncover just what the most ancient (and most threatening) being in "Coraline" is. We dig deep into the lore of the Neil Gaiman's book and Laika's animated film to discover just how truly menacing it is. I think it has the Other Mother and her minions quite terrified, and something that makes our beloved twisted beldam sweat? (Er, I mean, if she sweats, that is?) You know it's gotta be MONSTROUS. So, let's dive right in, shall we?
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You forgot to mention the part at the beginning of the movie where the other mother seems to somehow release the doll to space and ends up in the trunk of Wyborne's grandmother. Like, how did it even travel there and how did the other mother know of Coraline?
Thank you
I don’t think she’s in the stomach I think she’s in it’s throat
OK, now I am curious so I think I'll pick up the book. It looks like a good read.
the other mother feeds on love and life energy, she doesn't actually eat the children.. but SOMETHING does.
How terrifying
Ok now im scared
Holy shit if this was real bish I be going to mars
Joe Wright no? the ghost children literally said she ate up our lives
@@sm1purplmurderedme583 yes, because she feeds on love and LIFE ENERGY. she ate up their LIVES.
Imagine being an ancient being, just to exist as a tunnel
That's....kind of really awesome, actually!!
The thing is, it would be really boring
I don't think that being has a sense of boringness
or more likely we only saw the inside and not the thing itself.
tfw its Cthulhu's butthole
Theorists: "did coraline ACTUALLY escape?"
The writers: "well yes, but no"
Wow wtf we need a sequel
For some reason I can't stop thinking that the tunnel have similar characteristics to caterpillars: they can glow, they have fur and they can squash and stretch. Also, Coraline has an ongoing bug theme trough the entire film
I like this theory
I was thinking the same thing too.
yes!! there are so many bug theories about coraline, especially the other mother's metaphorical relation to spiders and coraline's to dragonflies. i think there is also something about beetles, and that idea with the caterpillar makes a lot of sense. maybe the tunnel being related to a caterpillar represents how the tunnel itself, along with the other world, seems harmless at first, but becomes more apparently dangerous and deadly.
Makes me think of the children's book "the hungry caterpillar"
*Oh God it's just a caterpillar for now*
coralline movie: * exist * theorist for the next 20 years: “ its free Real estate “
Kachikwulu AKABOGU boy i said that two months ago tbh that’s not a lot of likes, and what do ppl need to say “ lol so truuuueee “
Lol
957 years*
C J “ lol so truuuueee “
not anymore
Coraline: _crawls through creepy tunnel_
Also Coraline: "Why do I hear boss music?"
Is this a dark souls joke 😂
@@ashtondillard6214 Terraria joke but darksouls works too
don joe the joke wasnt originally from terarria
not funny
SPIDER DANCE!!
Assuming the tunnel is a monster sleeping , and that every time she goes through it to escape it becomes more awake and more intent on trapping her in , I shudder to think what would've happened if she had gone through that tunnel one more time .
Would not survive
Saw other coraline video, when the other mother closes the tunnel door for Coraline's anticipation and curiosity- but what if the other mother closes it in order to not awake whatever creature that is the tunnel itself?
I honestly think that the Other Mother and the Beldam are two different personalities, her main goal wasn’t to just lure children and kill them, but to bring back the idea of having a child, when Coraline first arrives, the Other Mother is very kind and warm, but as Coraline visits more often, she starts to have a different personality, like a normal parent dealing with a child that is growing up.
As the other mother she wanted coraline to think that she was nice. But combined with the sentence of the beldam: DONT LEAF ME!! I DIE WITHOUT YOU! makes this theory a lot sense
@@mauricesakelsek8236 LEAF?
Or leave.?
@@mauricesakelsek8236 well she would Literally Die she eats the souls of children to Survive
It was a lure to get the kids to stay to satisfy her hunger.
I think her line “DON’T LEAVE ME! I WILL DIE WITHOUT YOU!” is related to this, because even though I don’t think this was what the beldam was saying it for, it’s so similar to what a parent would say to a child growing old too fast. I like this theory.
My favorite fact about the Coraline book is that people thought it was too scary for kids, so Neil gave it to a (i think his publisher's?) kid to read and said if the kid was scared they wouldn't publish it. The kid said they weren't scared, so it was published, but later the kid revealed that they were terrified but wanted to know what happened next. Fantastic lol.
if that kid had told the truth we wouldn’t have many people’s childhoods
@Beet Leg you sound like that kid at the playground who wears shorts and says that they don’t care about the cold.
@Beet Leg bro what is this comment. How can you watch something without seeing it? Can you teach me this power?
@@mikehaggerty9644 lmfao
@@mikehaggerty9644 he means he watched the movie "It" (2017)
Creator: Makes book for his daughter.
Also creator: Adds so much lore that it’s still being talked about to this day
Me: *🗿*
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Considering Neil Gaiman has written several stories with Lovecraftian themes, I'd put my money on cosmic horror. It's also left vague because Gaiman understands filling in the blanks yourself makes it way more terrifying. He's a true master, in my opinion.
The fur theory around 9:10 is actually solid if you consider that cilia (microscopic hairs) are present in throats and mouths for the purpose of transporting the mucus which traps airborne contaminants in the throat. This being followed by the literal description of a mouth-like feeling makes me inclined to believe she is no longer in the belly of the beast, but the maw of the beast
this is all making me want to play that one game where your the girl in raincoat and everyone is fat and eating on a boat.
This idea made her screaming "I'll die without you" at the end of the movie a lot freakier...
Like the corridor is going to eat her as other mother didn’t get a new child to feast on
True that part always gave me chills
But in the movie the corridor disappears.
Andrew Thornton Keep in mind a lot in the original story was changed, removed, or altered in the movie in order to make it more appealing to the eyes of the audience. Always refer to the original books story for your answers! ☺️
Eefah The Fennec Fox
I know the movie was changed but they were specifically referencing the movie that's why I mentioned it lol.
Did someone notice in the movie that the other mother say "i'll die without you!" Maybe what she meant is she will be eaten if she don't do the sacrifice?
Oh good observation
Like that will change coralines mind
That could be a possibility, although the movie itself doesn’t really give the tunnel much emphasis aside from it being the connection between the real world and the fake one. I always saw the Other Mother’s cry of “I’ll die without you!” as a last ditch effort to manipulate Coraline and get her to give up on running away. It’s pretty in character of her. But hey, who knows, the writers left a lot up to interpretation, and that’s what makes this story so great. Sometimes what you don’t see is scarier than the things you DO see.
Could be. It also could mean she needs Coraline because she literally eats children. Could be both. The Other Mother and the tunnel being could have some kind of symbiotic relationship.
That line freaked me as a kid
When I read the book, I always felt like the corridor changed with Coraline’s emotions. Notice how the corridor became long and cold when she was trying to escape the Other Mother.
thats because the tunnel kind of acts like an accordion, it can turn small and be pulled large.
@bananainvasion2655 Agreed! How smart!!
I think that the corridor is fear personified. In the beginning its fun and playful, because it's fun to be scared every once in awhile but as the book continues, it's gets more and more insidious. Think about all the thing that we're described about it, every one of it's descriptors are things that children might be frightened of, cold winds, voices, spider webs. And can you think of anything that is more old and slow that fear itself?
The "Very old, and very slow"line was used so often in the books, I feel like it must be an author's hint on this tunnel beast...
We call It Arc words
Ditto
Perhaps a huge mimic
i thought it was a giant snail or something
@@19NooNaDa lol
when you were a kid watching the movie, did you ever wonder what would’ve happened if coraline ripped the thin material that she crawled through?
I always thought it was more fleshy, but if she did rip it, she’d probably get eaten or something.
Yeah! It looked like crepe paper to me, I always felt like she could fall and rip it accidentally and get stuck between the other mother and her own world
Samara Gama omg i was never that creative i just thought it would be brick walls with a stone floor
Death
Yes..yes I did
What I love about this random detail about the monster that exists in the tunnel is that it handily does a few things:
1: it establishes a reason why the other mother herself never crosses the boundary. There’s something that even SHE is afraid of.
2: we never even see or hear a description of what this creature is or even looks like from ANYONE. So it’s left open to our imagination to to be whatever or as terrifying as WE the readers want it to be.
3: no matter how scary any personal horror entity is, there is always something else lurking (again, leading back to point 1)
i think the corridor shows confliction. in reality, she has her parents who dont pay any attention to her, never have any time for each other and are always consumed in work - this being one side of the door. she goes through the hall and has this family thats really loving and caring, always giving her what needs stuff like that. so as she passes in and out of the tunnel, she gets more and more confused on where she wants to be. being on the side with the other mother had the exception of sewing buttons in her eyes; but on the other side she has to face the reality that her parents dont have any time for her. the tunnel shows how Coraline's conflicted on which side of the corridor she wants to be on, and having to face the consequences of what comes with being on one side.
Coraline came out in 2009 and 10 years later in 2019, people like abitfrank still talk about it which is insane to me.
Thank you for not forgetting about an amazing book and movie.
Its a good book
351butters and movie
@@mushroomfae4576 and anime
@@deletedchannel8796 and **insert something funny in creative here**
ZooM and porn
Coraline gripped me so hard as a kid that it’s like 11 years later and I STILL can’t get over it.
Right
Frfr🙋🏾♀️
It's only 11 years. 💀💀
@@solangelostan6016 15-11=4, 4 yearolds are kids
@@memali2939
That's not what I was talking about when I said that. They said "15 years later" but the movie only came out 11 years ago.
Okay so after watching this video i obviously had to run and watch Coraline and i noticed something else. As Coraline walks through the house there's pictures on the walls. If you look closely each picture is the house in different eras of time, including one that looks super sinister in the scene where they try to get her to sew buttons into her eyes. This makes me think the house is far older than it seems to be and whatever this parallel world is isn't just being created by the Beldam, but the house itself which is why they were able to "walk around the world"
I love your comparison of the Other Mother to a parasite, lodging herself in an empty space and casting a web to try and find prey. She didn't invent her realm, rather, she found it and occupies it.
Coraline, in book and film form, set the bar HIGH for a children's gothic fantasy story and hope that it remains for the next generations to come.
I liked the corpses bride and the gone with the wind reference.
for any gothic story fr
theory: the other mother and the Creature has a symbiotic relationship! the other mother traps kids and give the flesh to the creature, and in return, the creature give O.M. the souls she craves and need!
@@speretal_keleken-furywing3391 the emotion in that theory is disturbing too
"Frankly dear, I don't give a damn."
*SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCHHHHHHH*
It’s a giant rat. The mother of all the rats. “We are small but we are many, we are many but we are small. We were here before you rose , we will be here when you fall.” The rats seem to have existed way longer than the other mother. And the lines they saw are about the other mother.
Leighana Saunders OML this makes so much sense
😳😳😳whoa
I really love this theroy !!! It makes sense
also parts of the rat's mouth is covered by fur which explains why Coraline felt fur when she was in the tunnel/passageway
"I'm the giant rat that's makes all of da rules,"
"LET'S SEE WHAT KIND OF TROUBLE WE CAN GET OURSELVES INTO."
Considering how the Cat travels between the two worlds at will, it's quite likely that it could be a part of whatever entity the corridor is. It would explain why the Other Mother hates the Cat, because wouldn't you also resent the being that traps you in it's cage? It also explains why at the end of the movie, after the Beldam is sealed away, the Cat is still able to disappear behind the fencepost. It's not the Beldam's other world that gives the Cat that power, it's the corridor. The house itself.
The repetition of the words "very old and very slow" mentioned everytime the tunnel is brought up does such an amazing job at making you more and more unsettled- as this key detail is there everytime yet never explained.
I think part of the anatomy problem is that you are assuming it has a digestive system similar to mammals. Not all animals have a stomach.... Maybe it's more like a centipede or worm.
Holy shit😦😶😶😶........
Coraline was the original Human Centipede I could NOT believe it XD
Idk why but the word worm made me laugh
W o r m
Maybe a worm hole
I would LOVE a prequel called “The Beldam” wich would tell us who WAS truly the other mother and who is really the cat.
yeah, maybe just a short to give a little more explanation or just keep it like that and the thrill of mistery wont end, but of course id love an expantion on the mythos
Nah, leave it as a mystery. Not everything needs an explanation
Oh I wrote that fanfic years ago and titled it as such after the movie was released. Don't think I was too close to canon though, admittedly. =P Was fun to puzzle on though!
Do you mean Bedlam?
@@mental_decay_ nah i disgree
Imagine the caridoor was a burrow. Think about it. Burrows are homes for spiders. It can get wet from rain and warm or cold depending on the weather. The fur might be dust or dead animals.
But why is Beldam afraid of it then?
@@ametrineambrosia4929Maybe the burrow is alive or there is something living in it.
Perhaps the voices Coraline heard were actually the voice of the creature talking in its sleep?
The corridor is actually the Alaskan bull worm from Spongebob
Oh my god LMAO
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@@liguow 4 weeks ago
Hahahaha, hahahaha hahahaha 🤣🤣🤣😂!
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There are forms of carnivorous plants that have symbiotic relationships with spiders, if memory serves. Those plants tend to have tiny hairs as triggers.
Good catch.
I will never look at my house plant(that happens to be a fly trap) the same way again.
Makes extra sense story-wise as her parents were super focused on plants.
Hmmm
Oooooo
I can proudly say that my mum used this as a bedtime story when I was six
Hold up what-
HUH..
To be honest I think about the corridor being like how spiders tend to make their webs around made items, like a hole in your house, or between two chairs. It's not the other mother's creation as she just came here to make her web
I bet the author doesn’t even have an answer. He was just trying to be scary and never intended to give the corridor that much attention.
This is what I was thinking 😂
Or he does have the answer,but its his job to make the viewers curious. To add more fun to it. For example,a Japanese horor comic made a horror chapter but never have an actual ending. Just cliffhangers. With an intention to make the readers run wild with a creepy/scary imagination on their head.
Maybe, but it is hard to do something like that by accident. The chances of this being intentional was higher than lower.
oh, you mean neil gaiman, champion of "oh why ask why theyve got lizards on their head, why not ask why the lizards have people attached to them", "the devil is david bowie and if you cant draw david bowie i will personally hire david bowie to sit here so you can draw him" and "what if the entire concept of dreams was also a singular consciousness in itself and one of 7 different concepts/siblings"?
if he doesn't have an answer id be genuinely surprised
Ohoho it’s Neil Gaiman he has the answers
Theorists: Okay so this part of Coraline is even more dangerous than the beldam
Other father: so anyway, i started *warning*
LMAO LOLLLLLLLLL
@Demi Janelle Avergonzado I mean kinda but like if someone is singing a warning you wouldn't notice right away. But yeah she's kinda dumb
Lmao fr
We'll always keep our *eyes* on coraliiiiiine
@@angeldust6735 she was like 11 or something
With all of these amazing theories that are popping up about the Other Mother and the tunnel/Other World in entirely, I am ITCHING for a Coraline spin off, sequel, prequel or something to expand upon this masterpiece of a story 😍
I'm honestly shocked there hasn't been one yet. Never too late though!
There is a line in the book where the Other-Mother soaks to Coraline, but she hears the voice from all around her and in her head. So it's more than likely that the Other-Mother is a projection that the "Cosmic Being" uses to interact with people that are on another plain of existence. It's kind of like Stephen King's IT.
Coraline was my first ever favorite horror movie and after seeing this, I just want to see it again.
Pandaua !
It’s the creepiest thing I will ever watch, so same here.
Same! Although I generally didn’t find it as creepy as other people did. It’s kind of cute! However, Netflix has already deleted it :(
Edit: guys stop replying to my comment and saying you have it on your Netflix. Netflixes in different countries have different movies. It was removed from Canadian Netflix in July.
I love it too!
@@souvlaki._ are you sure? I have on my TV right now!
Pandaua ! IKR 😂 it’s nit really the scariest thing it’s just a kids horror movie But ur so right 😂
I would listen to Coraline as an audiobook if you were the one reading it 😂
The best version I've ever heard was the recording of Neil Gaiman reading it
@@nathanialfaer9409 Same lol
@@nathanialfaer9409 same, but honestly, he didnt really put a lot of emotion into what was happening. It almost felt rushed and as if Coraline were acting completely insensible without second thought or honestly any thought.. I feel like this video's OP would really just make it breathe
I would love that
i agree to this
The corridor also reminds me of a pitcher plant. It's not the best comparison, but it works for me as a large carnivorous thing that a parasite/spider creature like the other mother can use to snatch food from the other creature.
When I was a kid and saw Coraline for the first time, I actually thought the tunnel was the digestive tract of a giant monster, and the other world was literally the monster's insides. The other mother was like a parasite in the giant thing's gut, basically trying to steal its meal.
I was 7.
EDIT: I POSTED THIS COMMENT AT ABOUT 1:20 INTO THE VIDEO. I'M SO GLAD I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT THIS!!
Wow turns out u were right
i have a door similar to the one coraline went through in my bathroom. i saw something black sticking out from it and i got scared to go in my bathroom >~
LOL
Lmao
i- LMFOADJKSD
They are merely there to hide another door, one that leads to a corridor
Imagine u saw and identified it was a piece of black hair after watching the Grudge. And youre stuck on the toilet bc u had a 5 and need to wipe more than 5 times. Anxiety inducing.
i like her voice just changes so fast so much from creepy, spooky, to sweet, and funny.
Still talks a bit fast though.
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I am not even a native English speaker and I don't think she speaks all that fast.
Try keeping up with a swearing Scotsman. In comparison this is nothing.
Goji being friends with one...... i list this theory true
Ikr! I like her voice too.
Yea her voice makes it more interesting!
I think that the other mother and the cosmic entity have a symbiotic relationship because 1. Spiders only drink the "juices" of their prey so the bodies are still intact and I believe she is feeding the bodies to the entity. 2. Coraline hears voices in the corridor which can be many more children than just the ones the other mother ate so that means that this entity most likely does eat people so it has something to gain from the other mother's feedings. 3. In the movie it's almost like it trying to help the other mother throughout the movie. In the beginning it's all bright and colorful to lure her in and in the end it lets the other mother bang on the door and get closer and closer to coraline almost smashing her between the two doors.
Something to point out. Coraline put the key with the other mothers hand down the hole, that “went so far down you’d see the stars mid day.” When Coraline went into the other place mid day, it was starry. I think she just returned the key and hand to the other mother, who can now escape
You kinda glossed over the part in the book where the Other Mother says she buried her mother in the tunnel and puts her back occasionally when she wakes up.
SHE WHAT
CITATION NEEDED??????
Can YOU explain that part, I wanna hear your theory. Somebody in the comments said they think the tunnel is the Beldam’s mother and that it is why it’s stronger. What do you think?
Wait, I remembered that she claims to have buried (and reburied) her mother, but I don't remember her saying where.
@@SanjayMerchant Well. This is what it says in the book.
“A deal,” said the other Mother. “Now eat up your breakfast, my sweet. Don’t worry, it won’t hurt you.”
Coraline stared at the breakfast, hating herself for giving in so easily; but she was starving.
“How do I know you’ll keep your word?” asked Coraline.
“I swear it,” said the other mother. “I swear it on my own mother’s grave.”
“Does she have a grave?” asked Coraline.
“Oh yes,” said the other mother.”I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.”
I guess this doesn’t count out the fact that she could be hidden in the tunnel, and if she is/was a grown woman, it makes sense why she would have to crawl. But it also kinda points out the fact that she has only tried to escape once. (You can’t tell this by the way it is written.)
My theory: (I know it’s far fetched... but just a cool idea) buckle up, it’s a long one :)
Coraline meets the cat early on in the movie. The cat immediately warns her, but unaware, coraline wanders into the beldams trap. The reason the cat can talk, and knows so much about the other mother is because he once was a kid who wandered in like coraline, but he died, and his spirit escaped. He took the form of a cat, so he knows that the other mother is evil, which explains why he warns coraline about her “game”. The doll is obviously a spy made by the other mother... but what is the other mother? She is an illusionist and a mother who lost her daughter. After her only child passed away, she went crazy and became a hermit. She finds the door one day and meets the entity controlling the other place. She agrees to sell her soul and become a puppet in return of the love and compassion of a child. The other entity uses the child’s greatest wishes to lure them in, but if they catch onto the other mother, they use their fears to catch and feast on them. For example: coraline does not like bugs, the other mother took the form of a bug and had bug themed furniture. The other mother just feasts on the love and energy of the child to fill the emptiness of her lost firstborn, but the other entity feasts on the child themselves. The buttons? The buttons on the eyes are a way of selling yourself to the other entity. It symbolizes being a puppet to use to lure in more kids. They want the children to become puppets like other mother, but once the children are of no use, they become a feast for the other mother and the entity. If the child agrees to sew buttons in their eyes, they are under command of the other entity. The spirit children were once the puppets used by the entity, but they became of no use so they were feasted on. Hence why they are now only spirits that linger around the other world. That also explains the cat! He refused to sew buttons in his eyes, so they feasted upon him. His spirit (since he had no buttons, the entity had no control over his spirit.) escaped and he took form of the cat, to warn children to stay away from beldam. I know it may seem far fetched, but at many points in the movie and book, it suggests this theory!
omg i love this so much- thank you for sharing!
This is a good theory
This deserves more likes this is such s great theory!
This is better than the cat being the real monster and eating Coraline in the end cause it's really sad and creepy
i love this theory just wooowww
If you actually think about it, she never goes through the tunnel, like in the end she doesn’t go through the door, she moves the door closer to Coraline
Honestly, I love seeing everyone sharing their theories and opinions with each other. It makes me feel safe, if that makes sense...?
It's humanity at its finest, don't you think?
Agreed!
Nah you're just being weird
No one:
The Coraline book: *_OLD, DEEP AND SLOW._*
ZZ Da Weirdo don’t forget musty
@@mauriix_x3705 Like an old woman's coochie.
Mauri._. Because of that, I somehow thought of Gaea/Gaia, Mother Earth, who, other than Chaos, is the oldest being. I always thought she was slow, and she went to a deep slumber after her youngest son killed her husband. I would also expect her to smell like damp earth, and some think she was evil. I know this is wrong, but that was the first think to come to mind.
Stop
Shameful Ping I’ve never agreed to anyone
"Coraline's Scariest Monster Is NOT the Other Mother"
*Me, terrified of her: Are you sure about that?*
So true
Imagine something scarier then her
@@mckazuha4683 koh the face stealer from avatar the last airbender.
Or the owl
@@imsotrustfrated8376 AGREED
I just realized that the other father says there is only one door.
*"Why don't you have your own key on this side?" asked Coraline. "There is only one key. Only one door," said the other father.*
A corridor has to have two doors. Maybe it's somehow an infinite space in the single doorway. That could be why Coraline perceives it differently each time.
The tunnel was always scarier than the other mom or dad. Because it was just weird as if it had its own consciousness!
'covered in a fine fur'
The 'fur' she's feeling could be Cilia. Cilia are small hairs in the lungs and throat.
Maddy Smith no those are cilia, alveoli are small air bags that create a bigger surface area for gas exchange
Have you taken basic biology?
@@darling9045 I'm in year 9, give me a break. I was close enough
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lol
@@darling9045 clearly she has cuz she isn't wrong. The lungs also have cilia *as well as* alveoli
Wait didnt the kids in the movie say she ate our eyes and IT gobbled us up so did the other mother feed that monster so it wouldn't eat her but took their eyes so she could be filled but she was lonely so she kept one eye and used it as a magic things cuz in the movie the ghost kids was in a ball a ring and in a handle so when Coraline took them and the other mother screamed DONT LEAVE ME was she screaming that cuz shes alone or cuz the monster was gonna eat her🤔🤔🤔🤔
Monika14 Monika18 I. Love. This.
P ya
Nice theory but please punctuation next time. This was a lil confusing to read
Maybe the other mother is a parasite and "IT" is the host, so the beast eats the children but the eyes are like bones that the beast cannot eat so the other mother eats the eyes so the beast can eat in peace
minor correction, the ghost kids say "she ate up our lives", not "our eyes" (or at least not literally.) I think it's more likely she feeds off love and souls and probably doesn't have one herself, so technically the monster couldn't make a meal of her. Terrifying thought though.
Well, after getting into The Magnus Archives, this thing feels almost exactly like the Distortion. Ancient entity (which also exists as a pocket dimension, and a creature manifest by hallways and doors) that feeds on and made manifest by confusion and obsession. I imagine the writers took direct inspiration from Caroline when figuring out what the Distortion was supposed to be.
Btw, the way you say “corridor” is just absolutely adorable. I’ve watched a lot of your videos since I like the content, and your voice and the way you tell the story is just fantastic, I think this might be my favorite of your videos and def my favorite Coraline video on YT. Thanks for all you do!
Let’s be honest....
We’re all waiting for a Coraline 2
Goldenghost1 1 it doesn’t need a sequel. It’s fine by it’s self
Goldenghost1 1 It 100% wouldn’t live up to the original but I’d love it just because it’s coraline.
Nah it’s good the way it is no way to continue it in a interesting why
a Coraline 2 won’t happen. Coraline was a stop motion and it took extremely long to make. Also it was based off a book, and unless the author makes a sequel to the book, there won’t be another movie :(
also, they sold all the dolls needed to make the stop motion
This made me want to read the book version of Coraline
I've read the book, it drags, and aside from some small sections is quite boringly written. The film was better in my opinion.
But as with any story, everyone has a different opinion.
Saaame
Ooh you should! I love the book!
same
I’m reading it now, it’s scarier but I love it
i’m watching this at 1am and your theories and art have genuinely scared me. good job.
Sooo I've always had a little theory about the well, I think that it may also be a portal to the other world (its mentioned that there are several ways into it besides the corridor but the only other one we see is when the cat disappears behind the pole that the Pink Palace sign is hanging from). Speaking of that I believe that him doing so shows that the other world still exists and that the Beldam isn't quite finished with her little games. Doesn't help that if the well is a portal then Coraline accidentally gave her the key back.
What if the other world is something like tartarus? Both a place and a being
Tartarus is a being????????????????
Omg that’s what I was thinking 🤔
@@princessthyemis Yes the god Tartarus god of the abyss😁
BABY BABY BABY BABY BABY
@@luisz0339 AAAAAAAAAAAAA
People: did coraline really escaped?!?
The writers:"I justed wanted to make a simple film ".
Yeah in the end the cat teleported from somewhere which makes you think...
@@Journey-di8bq Cats are multidimensional beings- The authors just touched up on that, that’s all.
No, Neil Gaiman had no intention of making a simple story.
Also, yes, the cat was established to be able to enter/exit the Other world from more entry points than Coraline could.
Please People don’t do that!
Just let me believe, as a fact, that Coraline escaped and everything is fine.
I don’t want to start thinking about it again! It’s been 8 years. I am finally almost over the nightmares this movie gave me!😭😭
Theres gonna be a coraline two so anything can happen👀
Many writers have basically used the same ancient entity as the enemy of everything. The most direct and easily described version of this is in the game The Secret World (or now known as Secret World Legends) and they call it "The Filth" or the devourer of worlds, eater of stars etc. and it's basically Anti-Life. It's basically a corruptor, a devourer of existence and almost always trapped or constrained by some other entity or phenomenon. It's Entropy personified.
Thank you so much for making these videos!
That explains why you waste away on the other side of the mirror. It’s digesting you
It's a reflection of ones self
Waiiiit i see ur bioshock pfp ive beat that whole series and its the best
Or Thanos-
@@kai-yc2io JDHKSHSHOSHOS
"Mr Gaiman, I don't feel so good..."
Okay, I have a theory. It’s kinda long though:
So, I think that the corridor IS alive. And I also think that the corridor is the victim here. Yes. It is, and it’s kind of like the old lady who swallowed the fly; it’s got things inside of it, and that has things inside of that, etc. So, the Pink Palace is some kind of monster (Monster House type thing) but it can’t do anything. It has a parasite that makes it impossible for it to move, eat, act or do anything other than really live and stay there, where it is, forever. That parasite? The corridor. But, the Pink Palace got the upper hand. It managed to kind of hinder it, but not fully. Like getting a pill to stop the pain, but not get rid of the illness completely. It managed to lock up the mouth of the parasite to hopefully starve it to death, but, unfortunately for Coraline, the Pink Palace threw the key in the well (well, maybe got someone who lived there to do it, it’s magical after all) but it basically gave the corridor the key to it’s own survival, literally. And, then, the corridor got a parasite. The other mother. The other mother lives in the throat, and the other mother wants the key for herself because she wants to get OUT of the corridor because it is going to digest her. For now, she’s living off children’s souls, but the corridor feeds on the bodies. Her plan is to get the key and leave so that she can lock up the corridor forever, and after Coraline’s soul she would be strong enough to do that. *That’s why she screams, “COME BACK! I’LL DIE WITHOUT YOU!”* When Coraline tries to run away.
But hey, that’s just a theory...
*A CORALINE THEORY!!!*
And also thanks for reading all my boring stuff!
Edit: Oh my god I hate to be annoying but tysm for the likes!
FionaCat1251 A FILM THEORY
Oh so like the movie in Pixar, where the soul of this guy's dead wife becomes one with their house, and when the protagonists (a bunch of children) went inside to retrieve their basketball, they all saw the organs of the house, after they escape the house literally becomes a sentient creature and grows legs and chases the damn children, after the house, the guy sees the soul of his wife one last time before dissapearing forever
Theu should do a whole movie on the original writing and then have coraline meet wyborn from the movie after escaping the other mother so they can work together to kill the parasite of the coridor when it starts to make the pink palace sick .....
@@cedrick25 Monster House isn't a pixar movie
@@aidam7822 oh, i just remember seeing it in disney, sorry lol
I've not read the book (I really hope to read it soon) but every line or clip I've seen makes it sound incredibly fascinating! I personally adore stories that play with "the unknown" and leave them at just that; unkown. You can't find many good stories like that these days, everyone is too afraid to think. Can't wait to finally read the book!
OH MY G O D.
Once I had a really scarring Coraline dream BEFORE I READ THE BOOK and the tunnel to get ‘back’ WAS A MOUTH
I misread the title as 'Coraline's scariest mother' and thought this was going to be a video explaining why Coraline's real mum was the scary one, not the other mother lol
That would be an interesting video.
I literally did the same thing
me too T^T
Same :
She is not the best of mothers tbh :/
Ok adding onto the well theory, Wybie said “It’s so deep if you fall to the bottom and look up, you see a sky full of stars in the middle of the day” in the other world it’s always night time even when Coraline went in it in the day so that’s my theory
so could the well be another way into the pink palace...probably not because otherwise the beldam would be back in the house planning her revenge, and that would not be very good.
@@esmetew8186 well I think it was another entrance at some point but the reason why the beldam wouldn’t be able to find the key and why it was such a good hiding spot was because if you remember in the other world the well wasn’t there because she couldn’t replicate everything...
Wait, so if they're connected... then when she threw the key in...
@@alienindisguise5546 she gave it back 😳 it’d be a good opportunity to make a sequel haha
@@iloveratstheyaresocool other mother: MY HAND!!! BITCH!!!
thank you so much for the correct captions. i have a hard time watching stuff without captions, and on youtube it's a hugeee gamble 😭
A book that kind of take this idea to the next level is a book called a House of Leaves. The book its self is a maze to read as the story goes deeper and deeper down the tunnel the more and more you are reading in very odd pattern even sometime having to twist the book around 360 degrees as the words spiral down deeper and deeper.
My teacher in elementary school assigned this book. it gave me nightmares for weeks and my mom freaked lol
Aidan Boll?
Aidan B elementary ?!?!?
@@morganp8591 i know😓
Why do teachers assign shit like this. My friend mentioned having to read Watership down in middle school or perhaps earlier and while it is a different kind of scary really should be marketed towards something that isnt young children
@@snowpixie6 thats true but as an art it deserves much love. As scary as it is this seems like for children. Only a child can actually understand the book like this. I mean when you are a child your mind works differently. Like Coraline. It also shows her love towards her parents.
this video made me think of the part in the movie where Coraline said something along the lines of "Why doesn't she just make another key?" -- maybe it's because she didn't even make the first one
yup I feel like the other mother found that world.. she can't create she can only twist illusions. its kinda freaky bc the other mother was probably much younger and weaker than whatever evil creates the other world.
@@milam3382 vv
"Only *one* key-"
theory: the other mother and the Creature has a symbiotic relationship! the other mother traps kids and give the flesh to the creature, and in return, the creature give O.M. the souls she craves and need!
Yes, it was said in the movie that the other mother cannot create, but only copy, twist, and change things from the real world when constructing her version of it. Which is why in the first part she was sewing/recycling a doll that looks like Caroline out of an old one which resembled Wybie’s aunt grandma (the other mother’s previous victim).
This video blew my mind. Thank you for making it
This looks amazing! Your animation skills set a perfect mood for this video! 😊
The other mother might be using the creature, while the creature is dormant, old creatures in mythos tend to sleep for SO long that it would be more like it was dead. The other mother pretty much just moved in and setup shop inside, and with some magic and illusion crafted her means of using the creature's resting body to her own means. With the events with Coraline, well it triggered the creature awakening. And finding some creature living inside your gut, a bit annoying.
And its been said in a lot of eldritch stories, that the old ones, really do not care about humans, so perhaps its actions as it was waking up, was more towards trying to deal with the other mother. Not that it assumed the other mother was a threat more like a mild annoyence, and Coraline got stuck in the cross fire. More then likely the other mother, minus a hand, is pretty much gone dealt with by the creature. She might have been able to escape death via her hand, and is simply waiting for the creature to stop its stirring and go back to sleep.
A bit annoying? More like horrifying. Though it is kind of funny to imagine this cosmic incomprehensible beast realizing the other mother is living inside of it and having the same reaction we all would to a stomach parasite. "OH GOD OH GOD EW EW EW EW EW GETITOUTGETITOUT" Then just puking her up and locking the door behind her. There we go, that's the sequel. :p
Though it is interesting to think of the corridor getting hotter as Coraline left as being a fever response.
Hey there golden boye.
@@internetlurker1850 Hello bro
wow thats deep
Have you seen the yellow sign?
"Something very old and very slow" Death. It's death. Or time / degeneration. It is ancient, slow to move, but can change forms and come closer and farther depending on the situation.
But really, this is a wonderful video. And Cosmic Maw is an extremely large likelihood. Especially since Gaiman is a fan.
Holy frick, imagine just halfway into the movie the grim reaper just comes out.
giant world turtle who is also death
I usually don’t like hearing people talk about/make summaries about books or movies but this gorgeous human being...I could listen to you make summaries and talk about anything all day and not get bored
1:10
The gateway to the other world was actually supposed to be a shortcut to another part of the house.
In most houses, there's a small door that for example, has a small room with hung clothes. And another door to another part of the house
She's in Kirby, he inhales with high winds, transforms, has a world size stomach, and in the TV show they said his species lives a very long time
I want a book of that
Kirby and the other mother
Kirby: The Movie
Best theory ever.
I have a theory, if the cat that talks is the demon being, than at the end of the movie because the beldam lost Caroline the cat (Demon being of the other world) was going to feed on the beldam (parasite). That’s why at the end he goes back using the pink palace sign, than we hear a thump signaling that the cat has just killed her. She failed...
OOOOOOOOOHHH i love that
But why would she try to kill him? Unless it was a test
But why would the cat help caroline
@@daijun563 so he could eat her himself 👀👀👀
@@daijun563 On someone else's theory they said that the beldem needed Coralina in order to escape from the other side, so maybe the cat wanted Coralina to escape so that the other mother wouldn't be able to get stronger, so that it would be easier to kill her
Misread this as “Coraline's Scariest Mother Is NOT The Other Mother”
If you read Neil’s other works he has done stories for Games Workshop specifically Warhammer 40k. In the Warhammer universe there is a space called the warp that is influenced by human emotion. Coralline’s emotions could literally be warping the space around her, even if the warp and all the entire within are their own thing.
Note Coraline may be scary, but it’s ultimately told as a kids book. In his work for Games Workshop, no punches are pulled. Consider this a warning.
There once was a woman who swallowed a fly, she swallowed a spider to catch the fly...
ok I love that idea 🙌
What?
@@najwadwifadhillah320 it means that maybe there is something way bigger and the other mother was maybe the spider
Noooo!😫😁
OMG YES
I recently read the novella, I noticed how more creepy it is. The details of the rats brushing against her ankle in the dark, the eerie silence you feel overall in the book, the theatre, where she found the other father etc.
Its wayyyyy more creepy
Ooooh I’m gonna ask for that book for my next birthday
I read this long before it became a movie as a child. I always thought this was not a children’s story but rather dramatic horror about a child
I always thought the corridor being like an esophagus and the other reality being essentially the belly was representative of the beldams intent to "devour" Coraline and since Wybies grandmother had prevented her from being able to access any children up until Coraline slipped through the cracks is why the tunnel seems to be slowly waking up as the book goes on
I think the waken up enitity the devourer the filth war the other mother instead i die without you dont leave me
Eldrith would be fitting
Fantastic animations and presentation! I'm def gonna binge all your Coraline videos.
The author : The corridor, yeah. It's a corridor
The watchers : It's just a corridor
Theorier : *BUT WHAT IF-*
Wtf is a "theorier"???
Do you know what a theorist is? They're supposed to say "what if..."
theorier lol
*t h e o r i e r*
theorist
Idk if you guys notice but when coraline escapes the other world, locks the other mother in the disappearing world, do you hear the other mothers dialogue "DON'T LEAVE ME" it sounds as if theres something different.
Yeah as if something is gonna eat her. I wonder...
@@aqua1675 Wybie's grandma didn't let people with kids to rent in the pink castle and the only reason the Jone's family got rented is because they forgot to include Coraline in the contract basically Wybie's grandma knew about the existence of the Beldam but Wybie's grandma starved the Beldam for years since the last time the beldam fed off a soul was Wybies's aunt. What am I trying to say is Coraline was basically The beldams lifeline and the moment Coraline escaped her fate was sealed as she would starve to death.
@@itszellyk4039 woaah that's creepy
You are a super smart person
@@itszellyk4039 wow omg
She sounded a bit panicked like she was being hurt
I think it was downy feathers at first to seem soft and safe to get Coraline and other victims to feel safe and rested and to stay, but when Coraline doesn’t fall for it, the tunnel shifts into the throat to just swallow her as fast as it can
This was such a cute video!! Absolutely loved it!!! You're so awesome !!
One theory about the “fur” is it can be a creatures tongue. Some creatures have hair on its tongue and can feel like fur if dry, maybe the change from fur to the other option is that the monster started to salivate like most creatures do when they wake up???
omg thats geniuss
What if the fur is from the Beldam? Maybe even the cat?
@is it better to speak or to die?
Probably, yes. See my reply to charlee fitch...
What if the tunnel is not a beast, but merely a physical place, albeit one that is alive. Lovecraft loved to play around with the idea of the space between space, which explores the dark, cosmic places between worlds (or dimensions), and was a place where many of his eldritch abominations lived. What if this tunnel is one of these spaces that linked our world with others, but also happened to be alive and thriving.
Kinda like how the Earth itself is alive, plants and microorganisms ect., but this place works different. Alive but different?
@@kourtnicollins48
Actually, yes.
Lovecraft states in some of his stories that these spaces are actually capable of thriving as an ecosystem. I think that the tunnel can be the same. With different textures, smells, shapes, temperatures, etc being creatures living within this ecosystem. Which is extra creepy considering that the tunnel may also be alive.
Of note: Neil Gaiman, author of this book and many others, has and does use Lovecraftian themes in his work. He's a known fan of Lovecraft's work as well. It's not unlikely he was getting at exactly that feeling with this liminal space, or wanted to evoke that sense for a young adult audience.
Lol this makes me think of Ego the planet
@Sir Coughagus
Thank you very much!
Ive already gone through all of your videos!! Thank you for all of this wonderful content! I hope to see you post more!! 🖤