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Have you listed to the director's track and extras on the blue ray disc because the director talks alot about the changes he made and reasons why. But anyway I have not read the book but from your description of it I would say the movie as a adult is much more creepy than the book. The book is a world where the world is quite scary and strange and creepy with rats everywhere and she wants to get out almost immediately get out. In the movie the world is perfect it's got everything she wants it's fun she really wants to go back it's very convincing that 3 children have already been tricked into giving up their eyes. The second half the the book is much more scary sounding but the first half sounds very horror story into even scarier horror story while the movie is lonely girl finds a paradise made just for her and finds out it's a trap. To me that's what's really creepy that other mother can create a whole perfect world and mask her true forum perfectly.
abitfrank. Subscribed! I love your channel so far, I really enjoyed the movie and look forward to reading the book. Something I've been wondering is what's the significance of Coraline's hat? I was thinking it might be like a totem from inception but I'm not sure, maybe it's just something she wears to boost her confidence. Any thoughts?
I like the dolls spying on the children more than the rats, because as kids we trust our toys and they give us comfort. That's why them being someone's spies creeped me out.
Honestly, the cat gave me comfort when watching it. Even when Coraline was in the real world, it didn’t give me much ease due to how creepy the other characters are.
Ok but I felt so bad for the other father when watching the movie. He was just a slave to the other mother and wasn’t able to control his actions. His death made me cry
I like the choices they made for the movie. The tiny door through which even children must crouch is claustrophobic. With the vague fear of danger on the other end, the tight space you'd have to traverse to escape is stressful. The bright and attractive atmosphere (like the colorful playhouse-like tunnel) and the other-peoples' all but perfect resemblance to their real-world counterparts, identical but with buttons for eyes, make everything incredibly uneasy; you know something is horribly wrong. The Other Mother really really wants to win over her prey. Not to mention the opening sequence with the Other Mother's needle-hands sewing up a doll; there's no gore or anything, but something about her hands is disturbing and can even be hard to watch.
Yes, the book may be creepier off the bat but the movie is too. It's just a lot more subtle about it. Which makes me like it a little more. The goal is to trick Coraline, after all. They can't have her suspicious right off the bat.
I grew up with a small door like that in my room (leading into a small storage area/crawl space where we stored pool noodles and tubes). It made things feel way more creepy and personal to have a small, crawlspace door
Coraline is creepy, but a masterpiece. Also one thing that I find really satisfying is the beginning, when the other mother is making the Coraline doll.
In the movie it lures the viewers into this world where everything is bright and happy and lively, and it makes the viewer feel that something is slightly off about the other world. It's just too perfect. That's basically what makes the movie very creepy. The book is more graphic and scary, but I agree that if they added things like the rat's songs and the cellar part, it would have been much creepier
Fun fact: the film was originally going to stick closer to the book, but author Neil Gaiman encouraged the filmmakers to put their own fresh spin on his story. Edit: he has specified the only change he didn't appreciate was that Coraline has to be saved by Wybie in the climax rather than vanquishing the Beldam's hand herself.
yeah, books are not movies (obvious, but many failed adaptations don't follow that simple fact). There are way too many things for screening, and movies just don't have the leeways as books. Neil knew that, and letting the director to have their spin is the right call.
I dunno I kind of liked that because Coraline didn’t need to learn that she was strong and capable. She always knew that. What she DID need to learn was how to trust people and how to know who to trust. To me at least, it didn’t feel like Wybie saved her or vice versa. It felt like they worked together along with the cat to survive
@@rachelsilverland6179 bro i'd never heard of it and got excited. didnt know if it was on sale somewhere so i could support it without pirating. relax.
Remember the Other Father's song? "She as cute as a button in the eyes of everyone." and "Our eyes will be on Coraline." I saw that as foreshadowing the second time I watched the movie.
He’s actually the only other character (that I’m aware of) that actually cared for coraline genuinely The other mother, created him to love her, and care. She f*ck£d up tho lol
and they started to sing "rats we're rats we're the rats we stalk at night we prey at night we're the rats" "im the giant rat who makes all the rules" "rats we're rats we're the rats"
I love how the author makes the Beldam use Coraline’s fears against her. Her fear of spiders, for example. The form she uses with Coraline is a spider-like final form. I feel like her “final form” can change depending on the child’s fears, to make them be more afraid and less likely to fight back if they refuse the button eyes, like Coraline did. I also love how the author made it so that it wasn’t JUST spiders, but it’s insects in general, which Coraline may very well be afraid of, considering she is younger in the book than in the movie. I love the Coraline book and movie and I seriously recommend both if you haven’t seen one or the other. I am currently getting back into Coraline and these theories are feeding my obsession even more.
Why Coraline the movie was terrifying: You’re going through the movie in another world, feeling uneasy even if the scene is happy because you know something bad is going to happen. They don’t need to be as creepy as the book, the feeling of uneasiness during a happy scene is all you need.
To me a horror movie lover coralline was not that scary, it was more like a thriller than a horror story. The book had way more gore and was way more scary then the movie but it does depend on what you are afraid of to decide whether or not you will like it.
@@urmom7646 I agree, i absolutely loved coraline but not as a horror genre animation. It was thrilling, exciting, unsettling to say but scary, no way. Hey that rhymed.😃
Personally, i cant fully give my opinion. When I was about nine, I read the book. I absolutely loved it. When i was ten, i found the movie on netflix, as i had heard it was super scary. I turned it off just minutes after watching though, because there was no horror. At least not compared to the book. I may be wrong, but i really just didnt find it to be as full of suspense. My opinion may be swayed though simply because i am more of a book person. Overall, i just recommend seeing both forms of this incredible story. Also, i will try to rewatch the movie. Thank you for reading❤❤
He was created specifically for the film so that Coraline would not always have to be thinking out loud to herself. It gave her someone to voice her thoughts to.
@@Alistuart yeah, reading the original Neil Gaiman story was kind of sad. She talked to the cat a tiny bit, but it just made me feel bad as soon as her parents disappeared. Little nine to eleven year old girl alone.
i also think that stuffing is ACTUALLY creepier than blood, as blood is mortal and comes from living things, whereas stuffing and dolls, when they move by themselves, are wayyyyyyyy more TERRIFYING.
It's like sand...dry and not soft like conventional doll stuffing...that makes them seem heavier, like more weighed down than plushies, yet they prance around lightly and are full of life... hence why I think of them as creepier too.
The book is objectively “creepier” but I really like the tone of the movie. The book makes it obvious from the first moments that everything is dark and demented in the other world, but the movie focuses more on childly betrayal. The beldam ensnares a web of trust, telling her everything she’s always wanted to hear, giving her everything she always wanted. She gets the food she loves, the bedroom of her dreams, the world is literally woven to convince her that everything from the mother to the bugs and flowers are on her side. Coralline is convinced that the colorful world is for her, and is willing to accept it and it’s occasional off putting feature over the gloomy fog-filled world of reality, with her emotionally absent parents and strange neighbor. This movie came out when I was around 9 or 10, and it really served as an introduction to the dark world of manipulation. It tells kids that maybe they don’t always get things because they are loved or cared for, but rather they are given something with the expectation that they will give back something much more drastic and harmful. Coralline is expected to feel like she owes the other mother, the beldam sacrificed so much time and effort for her that coralline is supposed to feel she doesn’t have a choice in the matter and must forfeit her eyes and her soul. The book’s version of the other mother is like a deranged killer with a gun, having obvious motives and the desire to brute force her goals. While the movies version is like the stranger with candy in the van, trying to use the lures of happiness and joy to make the victim willingly walk into a trap, with bright lights and a friendly smile.
The thing that made Coraline (movie) scary is the fact that it WAS brighter, and that made it much more creepy, simply because it feels much more uncanny. The Uncanny Valley is often considered the peak of terror, as uncanniness is when something is almost right, but something is very very wrong. I think that the movie is scary because if you enter without knowing that it's horror, it is very uncanny. Gore is horrific, but misshapen body's and needles through the eye are terrible... and terrific.
bob johnson Indeed. Subtlety is key in horror. That feeling that something's off, but you're not quite sure. The way the world drops your guard, the way it starts off so warm and welcoming, but becomes twisted and cold over time is a lot more scary. It's sort of like the difference between Silent Hill and Resident Evil.
@@SakuraAvalon Some find Resident Evil scarier, but I'll always opt for Silent Hill (I mean, do you remember P.T.). Horror, like all things relies on tension and release, it must rise, peak, then lower. The movie decides to start off whole-hearted and slowly descend to madness. (note, I first watched it as a kid, because my family didn't see that it was horror)
Well, I can see why Resident Evil(at least the early ones) can come off as more scary, just because of how it forces you to travel this nightmarish world, and drops you in with very little resources, making a small decision much larger than it normally would be.
Yeah, I’ll have to agree. If things are creepy from the beginning, it kinda prepares the audience for things to come. In the movie, the world looked inviting, but from what I’m hearing about the book, it was wrong from the very beginning, which imo defeats the purpose... However, on the other hand if things are off putting from the very beginning without being too obvious, that can be pretty scary. Idk I’m kinda mixed on how I feel. Hehe xD. I’ll have to read the book to see for sure.
@@teabsv.21 I think Wybie or however you spell it wasn't entirely her making and she only "fixed" him. I have an idea that most of the world is just a replication such as the existing neighbors.
@@LamisonJamison i agree with your point cause when i watched the movie the other mother did say she "fixed him" but he did not have a voice. i also agree about the replication of the existing world and the other mother world so she can keep Coraline from escaping.
Honestly a thing I prefer about the film is that beldam is actually able to trap children there, in the book she isn’t very good at covering, especially her body features, but in the movie her acting and disguise abilities makes her the perfect character to capture children
Remember when Wybie said " this well is so deep you can see a *sky full of stars in the middle of the day* It's always night in the other mother's world Coraline just sent the key back to the other mother Edit: The reason there is no well in the other world is because then it could be used to get back to the real world.
I'm not gonna lie. I was watching the movie just now, read this and the idea scares the crap outta me. Enough that I have been rewatching it and paying attention to every line
The novel does a fantastic job at pure terror. The movie though, while we know *something* in the other world is off, we don’t care. We want to explore this world of fantasy. And replacing blood for dust? It makes the other world feel more alien, more alone. I actually think taking out certain horror elements strengthens the story. Coraline and the audience want to stay in this fantastical fantasy, no matter how fake it may be. But at the end of the day, anything too good to be true is, and the real world is ours, even for all of its flaws.
Don’t you just love human instinct? You can tell if something is off without investigating Unfortunately, movie characters never seem to possess those instincts xD
what i find so scary about the movie is that everything seems nice luring coraline in. with the book its obvious from the start that that shit is messed up
I feel like movie coraline has more brains the book coraline. Like, bruh, in the book she sees a bunch of weird shit from the beginning and STILL keeps exploring. In the movie coraline just gets lured in by all the these things that are too good to be true. Idk, I just personally see it that way
I agree the “visuals” so to speak were creepier in the book, but I personally found the idea of the beautiful facade with the slow rot and haunting behind it in the movie creepier - it was more sinister cause it lured you in and then turned. You’re lured in by the fun and beauty, and only realize it’s a trap too late. In the book, as a kid who read fairy tales, I would’ve had NO desire to keep exploring the book other mother’s world. There was too much “warning! Danger!” And not enough fun/pretty to offset it. The movie creeped me out MORE watching everything/everyone go from delightful to horrifying. Lol I’m honestly not saying your interpretation is wrong or bad - it’s just different :). And pretty awesome tbh. But I personally find the descent into horror idea creepiest 😬. Lol idk what that says about me...
Yes! This is exactly how I feel! Coraline always felt like a story about a child predator, with it feeling just a little off at the start with it slowly falling apart after the beldam reveals her ulterior motives! I also like the button eyes being a metaphor for becoming blind to the gut feeling where something is off, and that the beldam slowly separates Coraline from all help, catching her in her web.
Anyone else thought that Dakota fanning did an amazing job as coraline? Like my first time watching I didn’t recognize the voice but watching it again I just had to give props to not just the voice actors but the crazy hard work of laika on the movie
Personally I think it's good that the movie depicts the other world as a nice place, it gives a good message to younger viewers that no matter how good situations or people may seem, to be cautious, and not just jump on in like Coraline practically did.
Gosh the way you read the excerpts makes me wish you'd make a whole audiobook Also hUGE props to the art and animation, seriously impressive, creppy and wonderfully detailed! This mustve taken FOREVER to make!!
I think the film was perfect. It was fairly innocent but creep the first time you watched. But when you dig deeper into the story and rewatch it, u kinda start to understand the genius of the author. The story is truly disturbing
This wouldn’t make it creepier, it would make it *scarier*. The movie has a subtle, slow-building, creepy vibe, whereas the book is in-your-face gory and scary. The movie is by far creepier, while the book is scarier.
Yeah. And it makes a lot of sense too, the world looks perfect, too perfect. It's made to lure you in, make you want to stay there. In the book, it just screams 'get out of here as fast as you can'. Almost feels like the charade in the book is pointless.
Elliefailsatart200 I thought it had to do with the fact that Beldam sounds like “Belle dame”, which is beautiful woman in French. I supposed she was called the Beldam because her beauty and humanity was just a big facade.
I think the film is much more effective horror wise. I did enjoy the book, but it was too horrific too quickly. It doesn't seem very believable that Coraline would enter the other world and continue to go there if it was creepy from the beginning. It makes sense that the world is bright in cheerful in the beginning because the Beldam's goal is to lure Coraline, not scare her away.
I honestly thought the small tunnel was scarier than the big door, it was so claustrophobic and hard to crawl fast through, something could grab my ankle and drag me back before I made it to the other side, and worst of all it was filled with nasty spider webs 😭
Its what Neil Gaiman and Henry Selick wanted. A horror movie for kids. It was originally going to be a word for word live action adaptation but the idea was scrapped
@Sanna Tenhunen can you not complain? The animated movie is good to, I mean what’s wrong with that one? I’d love for a live action but that’s probably maybe not gonna happen anytime soon.
I remember that me and my sister and our parents watched the movie, we weren't too scared, but then my sister's old Lalaloopsy doll turned up on my bed and I refused to sleep in that room for a MONTH.
Your Coraline videos convinced me to read the book and I'm so glad I did! This is the type of book I could read over and over again. Would definetly recommend for any one who likes reading and slightly disturbing stories.
The talisman that Coraline got is actually a hag stone. They are said to be a sacred object. Different names can be witch stones, adder stones, and fairy stones. It is said you can see spirits through the stone like fairies hence the other name fairy stone. This is why she was able to see the souls.
@@MrsStormtrooper A lot of cultures have talismans to see other worlds or spirits so that's always a cool find when you can get a new place of origin for one :) Also can you tell me more or share a web page about those carved frogs It sounds interesting 👀
Both are great, having achieved their respective goals as media, but I actually enjoy the movie more. It is an insidious trap that anyone could fall prey to. The book, on the other hand, has no trick. It was chilling from the start, making the tone extremely static. I enjoy the juxtaposition that the movie offered. If anything, I wish that the movie had embraced that same level of horror once the cat was out of the bag. The switch from kid-utopia to Lovecraftian horror could have been truly terrifying (as opposed to the movie's mere "creepy"). By combining the strengths of both, Coraline has the potential to create an even more profound story.
Literally we have a closet under the stairs and in the back of the closet is a TINY DOOR that leads to under the stairs. I was convinced that if I went there at night there would be a bright purple tunnel waiting for me.
In our former Apartment there was this medium-small sized door and me being me I refused to go in there but my Pawpaw wanted to know what was in there and opened it and it was just an attic
My cousins have tiny doors that lead to the attic in some of their bedrooms... pretty sure there's three of the doors... Which is the same amount of children that got tricked in the movie...
One difference I really like about the movie instead of the book is how her parents DON’T actually disappear until later. It only happens after Coraline has visited more than once despite being warned by the circus mice to “not go through the little door” and after being told she’s in danger by the performance ladies. So in a way, she brought on her parents’ kidnapping through her own decisions and felt the consequences of falling to temptation. A very adult theme in a “kid’s” movie.
She didn't trust her when she saw the button eyes and the weird behavior of the other parents. She went back only after she felt like the other world would be an improvement
What is creepy is i’ve had dreams of three rooms in my house that don’t exist, two in the basement leading to a bedroom that is not there and a bit of a sterile lab or kitchen, both with filled in window wells. The final room was always a small door in the back of a closet which would lead to a mirror form of the closet, the door locked shut. In said closet was always whatever I wanted or needed. I had those dreams for decades (almost two to be precise), long before I ever heard of Coraline.
I mean, if you want Coraline nightmare fuel, just play the Video game on the Nintendo Wii. As someone who adored the film as a small child,the game was slightly more... traumatic.
there's a graphic novel version of the book that contains all those creepy, slimy, terrifying details but all visually portrayed. its so cool and looks just like the author's description, I really recomend it!
Great video! The visual style of Henry Selick films has always been my favorite. Did you see that he is working on a TV show for Little Nightmares? Seems like a promising match. I'm glad he's finally working on things again after his studio was shut down by Disney.
I think her point was more that the aesthetic choices of the movie set a much less creepy tone than the aesthetics of the book. The book is actually illustrated by Dave McKean, and his illustrations are very dark and angular, serving up a much more unsettling feeling. While I can always appreciate a good stop motion animation, and especially a Tim Burton one, McKean's illustrations go a long way in setting a darker mood for the book than the brightly colored movie. TL;DR She meant that the movie was more colorful and therefore less creepy
i think the movie's little details and changes were extremely creative and still made the story creepy, just in different ways. both are marvelous and it's so amazing to have read the book and then gotten to see the world come to life with so much creativity.
Movie Coraline is like a kid who was tricked by a adult figure that they trusted. Book Coraline is the same kid, but because of being tricked, doesnt feel safe anywhere, and cant trust anyone.
I wasn't really scared of the movie my parents were, right after Coraline came out Mattel came out with the Lalaloopsy dolls and my parents REFUSED to buy me one after watching Coraline.
Rats We're rats We're the rats We prey at night, we stalk at night, We're the rats "Im the giant rat, that makes all of the rules!" Let's see what kinda trouble we can get ourselves into!
Even thought the book is way more graphic and gorey,what made the movie so good was that it gave us a false of security with the warm food,a pretty garden,a piano that plays itself and even a friend.The dolls spying were much creepier than rats because as a kid we feel safe,warm and happy with our toys.Our friends spying on us,betraying us is waaay creepier than a bunch of rats..
The book does sound ALOT scarier but in the movie it feels just as scary but just more subtle, it gives it a dream-like feeling and this is all the other mothers work to lure Coraline to stay with her by making a world of wonders.
I don’t think coralline was made to be an horror, I think it was suppose to be creepy not scary and I think they did a pretty good job at it And I’m talking about the movie
@@CheesyCrepe I personally find creepy stuff unsettling enough to make me stay up at night for days. Like the short film Belly is creepy, not scary, but it still made me stay awake for a few days and be more hesitant and freaked about going in the ocean. Creepy classifies as horror.
I watched it at 11 and got a strange sense of deja vu even though I'm pretty sure I never read the book before seeing it and if that's not creepy, idk what is. I still love it though XD
I read the graphic novel, and enjoyed the creepiness of it. Then again, I read it when I was older, about 11 years old. And the decaying parts are what got me, and kinda made me sick.
@@hunterpaynekeyes162 yeah, we hav3 an online library at our school, and its the first graphic novel to show up. It was pretty good, if you like coraline, but definately creepy.
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Have you listed to the director's track and extras on the blue ray disc because the director talks alot about the changes he made and reasons why.
But anyway I have not read the book but from your description of it I would say the movie as a adult is much more creepy than the book.
The book is a world where the world is quite scary and strange and creepy with rats everywhere and she wants to get out almost immediately get out.
In the movie the world is perfect it's got everything she wants it's fun she really wants to go back it's very convincing that 3 children have already been tricked into giving up their eyes.
The second half the the book is much more scary sounding but the first half sounds very horror story into even scarier horror story while the movie is lonely girl finds a paradise made just for her and finds out it's a trap.
To me that's what's really creepy that other mother can create a whole perfect world and mask her true forum perfectly.
abitfrank. Subscribed! I love your channel so far, I really enjoyed the movie and look forward to reading the book. Something I've been wondering is what's the significance of Coraline's hat? I was thinking it might be like a totem from inception but I'm not sure, maybe it's just something she wears to boost her confidence. Any thoughts?
abitfrank your channel randomly appeared in my feed with a Coraline video. I saw Coraline in the title so I had to click it.
I love your vids
I love this movie as a kid it was this the thing that got me in to the whole creepy stuff
I like the dolls spying on the children more than the rats, because as kids we trust our toys and they give us comfort. That's why them being someone's spies creeped me out.
Truee
I dont. I locked them things up my dude. Especially giant monster high dalls.
Them things TOO articulated
that makes me think of the teddy bears with the tiny cameras in them
kylie rose *Dolls*
I always found dolls creepy in my childhood
Honestly, the cat gave me comfort when watching it. Even when Coraline was in the real world, it didn’t give me much ease due to how creepy the other characters are.
Yeah, watch it, it gets creepy, and might make your opinion go on a spin
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Ok but I felt so bad for the other father when watching the movie. He was just a slave to the other mother and wasn’t able to control his actions. His death made me cry
I felt bad for him in the book too even though he STRAIGHT UP TRIED TO MURDER CORALINE
Shit i forgot he died
RIP other father
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I felt so bad for him!
Not me
I like the choices they made for the movie. The tiny door through which even children must crouch is claustrophobic. With the vague fear of danger on the other end, the tight space you'd have to traverse to escape is stressful. The bright and attractive atmosphere (like the colorful playhouse-like tunnel) and the other-peoples' all but perfect resemblance to their real-world counterparts, identical but with buttons for eyes, make everything incredibly uneasy; you know something is horribly wrong. The Other Mother really really wants to win over her prey. Not to mention the opening sequence with the Other Mother's needle-hands sewing up a doll; there's no gore or anything, but something about her hands is disturbing and can even be hard to watch.
I agree, the movie is trauma dressed as a children's show.
Yes, the book may be creepier off the bat but the movie is too. It's just a lot more subtle about it. Which makes me like it a little more. The goal is to trick Coraline, after all. They can't have her suspicious right off the bat.
I agree,the cheery atmosphere is what made the movie so creepy.
Also the fact that it was a small door and small tunnel (?) made it sort or target kids specifically (like coraline) so that was foreshadowing
I grew up with a small door like that in my room (leading into a small storage area/crawl space where we stored pool noodles and tubes). It made things feel way more creepy and personal to have a small, crawlspace door
Coraline is creepy, but a masterpiece. Also one thing that I find really satisfying is the beginning, when the other mother is making the Coraline doll.
Oh really?? I always thought it was the boy who made it😬
The food scene in the movie was simply MOUTHWATERING
Same it makes the story more creepy!!!!🤩😱❤️
@@sweetdaemon I mean does the boy have the other mothers hands? Could be a very interesting theory though
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In the movie it lures the viewers into this world where everything is bright and happy and lively, and it makes the viewer feel that something is slightly off about the other world. It's just too perfect. That's basically what makes the movie very creepy. The book is more graphic and scary, but I agree that if they added things like the rat's songs and the cellar part, it would have been much creepier
Zara Khan you’re right
True, the cellar scene creeped me out the most out of the whole book.
In the behind the scenes, I believe that it's mentioned that they tried to add the rat song, hence the mice animation.
It was too perfect, that’s exactly what scared me!! 😌😌😌
Zara Khan the god. Damn. cellar. Part. Holy shit. I’m so glad that wasn’t added in. Kid me would’ve cried.
Fun fact: the film was originally going to stick closer to the book, but author Neil Gaiman encouraged the filmmakers to put their own fresh spin on his story.
Edit: he has specified the only change he didn't appreciate was that Coraline has to be saved by Wybie in the climax rather than vanquishing the Beldam's hand herself.
yeah, books are not movies (obvious, but many failed adaptations don't follow that simple fact). There are way too many things for screening, and movies just don't have the leeways as books.
Neil knew that, and letting the director to have their spin is the right call.
I dunno I kind of liked that because Coraline didn’t need to learn that she was strong and capable. She always knew that. What she DID need to learn was how to trust people and how to know who to trust. To me at least, it didn’t feel like Wybie saved her or vice versa. It felt like they worked together along with the cat to survive
@@christalcavanaugh I agree. Learning to collaborate and work together with people is a super important lesson for children.
Coraline movie: "I'm very scary!"
*Coraline book: "Hold my book."*
Hold my buttons
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@@marciabob1082 ikr lol
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Hold my *rats*
"Is that instant coffee? Terrifying!"
*stares down at my own cup of instant coffee with shame*
Come on buddy It's ok, we all had an "instant something" at home! It can be as much noodles as coffee! c;
God same...
I have loads of instant ramen!
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you have no idea about the massive amounts of instant things I have
Fun fact: The book was also adapted into a graphic novel. The graphic novel follows the book almost exactly.
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@@rachelsilverland6179 bro i'd never heard of it and got excited. didnt know if it was on sale somewhere so i could support it without pirating. relax.
oh my god imagine if it said "based on a true story"
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Remember the Other Father's song?
"She as cute as a button in the eyes of everyone."
and
"Our eyes will be on Coraline."
I saw that as foreshadowing the second time I watched the movie.
I like how the Other Father was triying to help her in the movie
Literally every lyric in the song except “making up a song about coralline” is a warning
Samee. All I could hear was “ button in the eyes” “button in the eyes of the everyone” I feel like he tried to warn her 😭
He’s actually the only other character (that I’m aware of) that actually cared for coraline genuinely
The other mother, created him to love her, and care. She f*ck£d up tho lol
@WHITE IS NOT SUS he also says “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Mother made me this way” when he’s ‘fighting’ coraline for the eye thing
Wybie: *exists*
Coraline: hElLo WhYwErEyOuBoRn
I laughed so hard
NoOoOoO wybie is best boi.
@@ahfreshair9242 lmao
How to not be a youtuber 101 YES
@@mrghdude ?
and they started to sing
"rats
we're rats
we're the rats
we stalk at night we prey at night we're the rats"
"im the giant rat who makes all the rules"
"rats
we're rats
we're the rats"
I love that video!!
You’re my hero
"AY, YO, BIGGIE CHEESE! COME AND GET YOU'RE HOMEBOYS!"
Lets see what kind of trouble we can get ourselves into
why do i vaguely remember this from my childhood, but not quite?
I love how the author makes the Beldam use Coraline’s fears against her. Her fear of spiders, for example. The form she uses with Coraline is a spider-like final form. I feel like her “final form” can change depending on the child’s fears, to make them be more afraid and less likely to fight back if they refuse the button eyes, like Coraline did. I also love how the author made it so that it wasn’t JUST spiders, but it’s insects in general, which Coraline may very well be afraid of, considering she is younger in the book than in the movie.
I love the Coraline book and movie and I seriously recommend both if you haven’t seen one or the other. I am currently getting back into Coraline and these theories are feeding my obsession even more.
Remember the cat sized dead spider Coraline finds in a bathtub while looking for the third soul?
@@digstrememcdingus1463 I would be less scared of the spider and more of what killed it in the first place. Fear the killer, not the corpse.
@@undeadprincess5726 I mean whose to say she was the only one? Imagine if she made a spider other monster of the cat
@Digstreme McDingus more other worlds hidden in houses waiting for someone to come upon them? That's pretty scary to think about
Coraline movie : Sweet and innocent but also creepy
Coraline book : Dark and scary
And the book sounds like a great idea for a rpg maker horror game
You got me hooked up on the rpg game - how come no one thought of this?
Play Fran Bow.
"sweet and innocent"
Just because the movie is less creepy than the book, that does not make the movie "sweet" or "innocent"
Mikukawaii Neko The coraline movie is scary too.
Coraline was an underrated masterpiece
It's still so perfect! Masterpiece for real!
You gotta be around the right people for it to suddenly become overrated.
Abitfrank is underrated!
@@abitfrank I love your channel already
Yes 👏 yes 👏 yes
So what ur saying is Coraline would have made a great rpg horror game.
I mean... it still can be :D
@@primrosepiers1052 same
Meagan Crowley If I remember correctly, I believe there IS a Coraline video game. Could be wrong though
It actually does Lmao
I need to see that made on xbox 1 because I would soooooo buy it
her, talking about rats: they may work for another other mother
me: *looks at my pet rats snuggling each other*
Plot twist! You're the mother!
@@thaiswei4069 ahhh this is a good plot twist
@@thaiswei4069 genius
Honestly same. I love rats and spiders and wolves and all the other animals people are scared of.
@@DreyriAldranaris36 same!
fun fact that nobody asked for: they used over 15,000 individual faces in the stop motion film. extraordinarily impressive.
That IS impressive
Woooaaah
wow
I've knew that before
The whole time watching I’m like, how did the do that!?
Why Coraline the movie was terrifying:
You’re going through the movie in another world, feeling uneasy even if the scene is happy because you know something bad is going to happen. They don’t need to be as creepy as the book, the feeling of uneasiness during a happy scene is all you need.
Exactly. The moment you see the other mother and her eyes you feel the creepiness.
To me a horror movie lover coralline was not that scary, it was more like a thriller than a horror story. The book had way more gore and was way more scary then the movie but it does depend on what you are afraid of to decide whether or not you will like it.
Yeah! There was a sense of unease about the Other Parents. What made Coraline scary was the uncanny valley.
@@urmom7646 I agree, i absolutely loved coraline but not as a horror genre animation. It was thrilling, exciting, unsettling to say but scary, no way.
Hey that rhymed.😃
Personally, i cant fully give my opinion. When I was about nine, I read the book. I absolutely loved it. When i was ten, i found the movie on netflix, as i had heard it was super scary. I turned it off just minutes after watching though, because there was no horror. At least not compared to the book. I may be wrong, but i really just didnt find it to be as full of suspense. My opinion may be swayed though simply because i am more of a book person. Overall, i just recommend seeing both forms of this incredible story. Also, i will try to rewatch the movie. Thank you for reading❤❤
When I read the book after watching the movie I immediately noticed:
'Wait where's Wybie'
He was created specifically for the film so that Coraline would not always have to be thinking out loud to herself. It gave her someone to voice her thoughts to.
@@Alistuart yeah, reading the original Neil Gaiman story was kind of sad. She talked to the cat a tiny bit, but it just made me feel bad as soon as her parents disappeared. Little nine to eleven year old girl alone.
@@Minto8384 where did her parents even go?-
fourfinity have you not seen the movie or watched this video 🤦🏼♀️
@@justparanova2160 in the movie, the other mother takes them and traps them in a snowglobe, in the book, she just kinda... takes them...
The "narnia-gone-wrong Door" gave me the most chills
Coraline's blue hair and yellow clothes are there to do a contrast between the gray real-life world and Coraline.
Sailor Cat yup coraline’s hair use to be brown
If they kept her hair brown in the movie, it be the closest thing to a little nightmares movie
:0 i pointed it out to my mom but she was like what
Wow deep
Nuclear Drift m
Your animation style matches the tone and style of Coraline
Nobody:
Other mother: YoU WaNT BUTton EyES (: :) w (: :)
Edit: like plz
Yes, very nice compatible style.
Tye McGowan Like begger lol
*"Your an Expert Aiden"*
{{you are a wizard Harry}}
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i also think that stuffing is ACTUALLY creepier than blood, as blood is mortal and comes from living things, whereas stuffing and dolls, when they move by themselves, are wayyyyyyyy more TERRIFYING.
Fluffacep AJ I agree so much to this! 😱
Yeah, the stuffing kind of suggests that the entire world is just a playhouse for the Other Mother, which is so much creepier than blood.
Drab Bard “Gore in Stop Motion looks off”
_Moonshine Animations would like a word with you_
Yes.
It's like sand...dry and not soft like conventional doll stuffing...that makes them seem heavier, like more weighed down than plushies, yet they prance around lightly and are full of life... hence why I think of them as creepier too.
The book is objectively “creepier” but I really like the tone of the movie. The book makes it obvious from the first moments that everything is dark and demented in the other world, but the movie focuses more on childly betrayal. The beldam ensnares a web of trust, telling her everything she’s always wanted to hear, giving her everything she always wanted. She gets the food she loves, the bedroom of her dreams, the world is literally woven to convince her that everything from the mother to the bugs and flowers are on her side. Coralline is convinced that the colorful world is for her, and is willing to accept it and it’s occasional off putting feature over the gloomy fog-filled world of reality, with her emotionally absent parents and strange neighbor. This movie came out when I was around 9 or 10, and it really served as an introduction to the dark world of manipulation. It tells kids that maybe they don’t always get things because they are loved or cared for, but rather they are given something with the expectation that they will give back something much more drastic and harmful. Coralline is expected to feel like she owes the other mother, the beldam sacrificed so much time and effort for her that coralline is supposed to feel she doesn’t have a choice in the matter and must forfeit her eyes and her soul. The book’s version of the other mother is like a deranged killer with a gun, having obvious motives and the desire to brute force her goals. While the movies version is like the stranger with candy in the van, trying to use the lures of happiness and joy to make the victim willingly walk into a trap, with bright lights and a friendly smile.
The thing that made Coraline (movie) scary is the fact that it WAS brighter, and that made it much more creepy, simply because it feels much more uncanny. The Uncanny Valley is often considered the peak of terror, as uncanniness is when something is almost right, but something is very very wrong. I think that the movie is scary because if you enter without knowing that it's horror, it is very uncanny. Gore is horrific, but misshapen body's and needles through the eye are terrible... and terrific.
bob johnson Indeed. Subtlety is key in horror. That feeling that something's off, but you're not quite sure. The way the world drops your guard, the way it starts off so warm and welcoming, but becomes twisted and cold over time is a lot more scary.
It's sort of like the difference between Silent Hill and Resident Evil.
@@SakuraAvalon Some find Resident Evil scarier, but I'll always opt for Silent Hill (I mean, do you remember P.T.). Horror, like all things relies on tension and release, it must rise, peak, then lower. The movie decides to start off whole-hearted and slowly descend to madness. (note, I first watched it as a kid, because my family didn't see that it was horror)
Well, I can see why Resident Evil(at least the early ones) can come off as more scary, just because of how it forces you to travel this nightmarish world, and drops you in with very little resources, making a small decision much larger than it normally would be.
Blood is always too in-your-face to really scare me. Things that make me feel like somethings creeping up on me are so much scarier.
Yes. When everything seems too perfect but with a subtle creepy tone is scarier then dealing with scary stuff from the beginning.
I liked movie Coraline because it gave the watcher a false sense of security with small things off about the world
I agree, the subtlety adds so much to the creep factor.
Yeah, I’ll have to agree. If things are creepy from the beginning, it kinda prepares the audience for things to come. In the movie, the world looked inviting, but from what I’m hearing about the book, it was wrong from the very beginning, which imo defeats the purpose...
However, on the other hand if things are off putting from the very beginning without being too obvious, that can be pretty scary. Idk I’m kinda mixed on how I feel. Hehe xD. I’ll have to read the book to see for sure.
i really loved the button-eyed monsters that the other mother made to look like Coraline's neighbor and friend in the real world.
@@teabsv.21 I think Wybie or however you spell it wasn't entirely her making and she only "fixed" him. I have an idea that most of the world is just a replication such as the existing neighbors.
@@LamisonJamison i agree with your point cause when i watched the movie the other mother did say she "fixed him" but he did not have a voice. i also agree about the replication of the existing world and the other mother world so she can keep Coraline from escaping.
Wanna know the most creepiest scene in the movie??
“DONT LEAVE ME! DONT LEAVE ME DONT LEAVE ME ILL DIE WITHOUT YOU
i love your username lmao
Diesel patches GirIfriend
Honestly that's like the only part i felt genuinely scared and freaked out by
Watch my coraline video :)
@@kyleerae6941 lie you dont have any vids
Honestly a thing I prefer about the film is that beldam is actually able to trap children there, in the book she isn’t very good at covering, especially her body features, but in the movie her acting and disguise abilities makes her the perfect character to capture children
Agreed
Remember when Wybie said " this well is so deep you can see a *sky full of stars in the middle of the day*
It's always night in the other mother's world
Coraline just sent the key back to the other mother
Edit: The reason there is no well in the other world is because then it could be used to get back to the real world.
I believe that it is another portal to the other mother's world.
@Instrumentality1000
If coraline didn't ruin her plans altogether she definitely fucked her up *BAD*
I'm not gonna lie. I was watching the movie just now, read this and the idea scares the crap outta me. Enough that I have been rewatching it and paying attention to every line
bruh.
Instrumentality1000 in the movie it was a metal hand so it could be remains by her MANY servants in the other world so yeah the cycle continues
Neil Gaiman said himself that it is an adventure to kiddies but a terror to adults.
The novel does a fantastic job at pure terror. The movie though, while we know *something* in the other world is off, we don’t care. We want to explore this world of fantasy. And replacing blood for dust? It makes the other world feel more alien, more alone. I actually think taking out certain horror elements strengthens the story. Coraline and the audience want to stay in this fantastical fantasy, no matter how fake it may be. But at the end of the day, anything too good to be true is, and the real world is ours, even for all of its flaws.
I agree.
Yeah I love the movie so much bcs it's a colorful fantastical world but there's something unsettling about it the whole time
Don’t you just love human instinct? You can tell if something is off without investigating
Unfortunately, movie characters never seem to possess those instincts xD
TheCheck yeah lol
KittenCookieCronch XD
The other father maggot creature was the scariest part to me. Also, Neil Gaiman gives a haunting narration of the audiobook that makes it even scaries
what i find so scary about the movie is that everything seems nice luring coraline in. with the book its obvious from the start that that shit is messed up
Mhn
Exactly
I feel like movie coraline has more brains the book coraline. Like, bruh, in the book she sees a bunch of weird shit from the beginning and STILL keeps exploring. In the movie coraline just gets lured in by all the these things that are too good to be true. Idk, I just personally see it that way
Movie - Slow burn creep
Book - Straight up horror movie
Wait...
Which is why the movie is more iconic than the more terrifying book
@@yiwoon_cr8s also stop motion
i read the book in 6th grade it wasn't scary at all lol and i get scared easily
@@joleysarro9831 you do you
Coraline was the movie that started my love for horror.
Same!!
Me too!
Same!! Ikr
Same
Same!
I agree the “visuals” so to speak were creepier in the book, but I personally found the idea of the beautiful facade with the slow rot and haunting behind it in the movie creepier - it was more sinister cause it lured you in and then turned. You’re lured in by the fun and beauty, and only realize it’s a trap too late. In the book, as a kid who read fairy tales, I would’ve had NO desire to keep exploring the book other mother’s world. There was too much “warning! Danger!” And not enough fun/pretty to offset it. The movie creeped me out MORE watching everything/everyone go from delightful to horrifying.
Lol I’m honestly not saying your interpretation is wrong or bad - it’s just different :). And pretty awesome tbh. But I personally find the descent into horror idea creepiest 😬. Lol idk what that says about me...
Yes! This is exactly how I feel! Coraline always felt like a story about a child predator, with it feeling just a little off at the start with it slowly falling apart after the beldam reveals her ulterior motives! I also like the button eyes being a metaphor for becoming blind to the gut feeling where something is off, and that the beldam slowly separates Coraline from all help, catching her in her web.
Haven't read the book but I'd probably feel similar
People: THAT MOVIE IS TERRIFYING!!!
Me: That movie is visually beautiful.
Its both mate
9/10 would watch again....only the fear......THE ONE THING THAT IM MISSING! I NEED SOME F. E. A. R. !
@@tomaskanka6223 And those weird... LADIES DOING SHENANIGANS OH GOD MAKE ME FORGET ABOUT THAT!
Not like other girls
IT IS
i wanna see a legit horror movie based precisely on the book now! that scenario is just TOO GOOD to pass up
Thanks for the idea, I can use this to get into film school
Me too
Hannah Smith A cartoon would be better, you get more eerie imagery in cartoons
how about claymation? that would be creepy all while tying into the general aesthetic if the book!
Billy nah, 2D
I would pay money to listen to an audio book of you reading Coraline
yesssss her voice is perfect. She didn't even give me a chance to zone out
Dittoo
Ikr
What else would you pay with? Cookies?
I’d take cookies
Sameee
Anyone else thought that Dakota fanning did an amazing job as coraline? Like my first time watching I didn’t recognize the voice but watching it again I just had to give props to not just the voice actors but the crazy hard work of laika on the movie
The fact that she didn't destroy the hand in the book and just let it fall down the well with the key is more terrifying than the whole movie
Ew no
Well then that's terrifying
It finna crawl back and unlock the door then the SCP foundation has to get involved
What if the well and the tunnel (Blocked by the dying other world) were the nostrils of something else?
I don’t think she did that I think the hand just didn’t know that there was a hole and jumped to get the key
Personally I think it's good that the movie depicts the other world as a nice place, it gives a good message to younger viewers that no matter how good situations or people may seem, to be cautious, and not just jump on in like Coraline practically did.
Exactly!
True
Doesn't know that......thanks!
@@ApplePi3.1415
The Beldam would even scare Freddy Krueger Micheal Myers and Chucky scentless.
@S K
Yeah and I think Coraline is already creepier enough.
If the other mother keeps on moving her fingers like that that, she’s on her way to the red brick road of arthritis.
lol
lol
LMFAOOO not the red brick road
i hope ur joking about "red brick road"
Lmao
What's the red brick road tho-
Seriously, mum thought that's a kids cartoon movie, so she played the movie on the TV and left to get groceries when I was 10, and I loved it
What a mistake
"look at her in her yellow raincoat. How is that scary."
Little girl from Little Nightmares: laughs in nightmares
Laughs is cannibalism, dark magic and murder. Also her name is six.
I was just about to say that that
Ah.... Gotta love Six, haha.
I just realized all three of my favorite fictional characters have yellow raincoats:
Six
Coraline
And Georgie.
The mego depresso three.
Laughs in Gluttonous soul eating silence
There’s no way she’s coming out of this mentally stable
Lmaooo. Pls watch my coraline video
@@kyleerae6941 I'd prefer books like this never published.
Kylee Rae
Hun you don't have a coraline video
@@virikan3518 i did but i deleted it bc i got sm hate! Do u want me to post it again?
Kylee Rae
Oh rlly? My bad! Sorry you got hate.
I feel as though the movie is more creepy, and unsettling, but the book is definitely more scary and gory.
I find unsetteling stuff more scary tbh.
I can't take you seriously when you have an adorable honey slime as your pfp ;-;
I agree!
Gosh the way you read the excerpts makes me wish you'd make a whole audiobook
Also hUGE props to the art and animation, seriously impressive, creppy and wonderfully detailed! This mustve taken FOREVER to make!!
Oh god if they animated the movie like that cover I’d be horrified
That cover haunts me for some reason
Then you are no Yami my friend. Shame.
@@TerryTheChunin Maybe sending them to the Shadow Realm will help them?
You are at 420 likes and I am sorry but I can’t ruin that
@@moondustspark5250 N O
666 likes :)
What's truly creepy, the other mother made her a hot cocoa to taunt her
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee3EE3EEEE33333EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
How?
@@Lydia-Chlamydia I'm pretty sure that it was a joke
Terrifying
@@aarasko true
“Is that instant coffee?! Terrifying!”
Ouran Host Club: Hmph!
Ayyy
xD
Batman Senpai *AAAA ALOIS TRANCY*
I instantly (haha) thought of that. Riise my fellow weebs
hey kids
I think the film was perfect. It was fairly innocent but creep the first time you watched. But when you dig deeper into the story and rewatch it, u kinda start to understand the genius of the author. The story is truly disturbing
This wouldn’t make it creepier, it would make it *scarier*. The movie has a subtle, slow-building, creepy vibe, whereas the book is in-your-face gory and scary. The movie is by far creepier, while the book is scarier.
*book is scarier
Yes the movie was scarier than the movie.
@@nachotaco8036 no, the book was creepier than the book
@@lks5878 ^^ lmao
Yeah. And it makes a lot of sense too, the world looks perfect, too perfect. It's made to lure you in, make you want to stay there. In the book, it just screams 'get out of here as fast as you can'.
Almost feels like the charade in the book is pointless.
I’m very late and you probably won’t see this but... a Beldam is a another word for Witch.
Yeah in tha movie Coraline calls The beldam a witch
Omg we have the same pp 😂
just a random person I don’t know but I just laughed wayyy to hard😂😂😂😂
Elliefailsatart200 I thought it had to do with the fact that Beldam sounds like “Belle dame”, which is beautiful woman in French. I supposed she was called the Beldam because her beauty and humanity was just a big facade.
Lmao your pfp
I think the film is much more effective horror wise. I did enjoy the book, but it was too horrific too quickly. It doesn't seem very believable that Coraline would enter the other world and continue to go there if it was creepy from the beginning. It makes sense that the world is bright in cheerful in the beginning because the Beldam's goal is to lure Coraline, not scare her away.
also they made more colorful so thaat younger people could watch the movie, which means a higher auidience, which means $$$$$$$$$$$$ 😍
Her curiosity must be very high for her to continue lol.
who’s beldam
@@phrogg5219 did you even watch the movie???????
@@dejuancollinssr.7698 the last time i watched the movie was like 5 years ago
I honestly thought the small tunnel was scarier than the big door, it was so claustrophobic and hard to crawl fast through, something could grab my ankle and drag me back before I made it to the other side, and worst of all it was filled with nasty spider webs 😭
So basically...they made Coroline a kids movie when they could have made it a horror movie😂
Its what Neil Gaiman and Henry Selick wanted. A horror movie for kids. It was originally going to be a word for word live action adaptation but the idea was scrapped
@@Firegirl483 NO!" They should have made the live action!
@Sanna Tenhunen can you not complain? The animated movie is good to, I mean what’s wrong with that one? I’d love for a live action but that’s probably maybe not gonna happen anytime soon.
Live action is overrated and overused these days.
make a 10th anniversary remake
I remember that me and my sister and our parents watched the movie, we weren't too scared, but then my sister's old Lalaloopsy doll turned up on my bed and I refused to sleep in that room for a MONTH.
CreepY
A yes, lalaloopsie *flashbacks to preK* yeah, not gonna forget that traumatizing experience
sssuuuuuuuuuuuurrreee
Yikes
I remember lalaloopsies, I discovered them after watching the movie , one of the dolls looked just like me and me being seven I was terrified of it
Ok I Gotta say it other mother is a skinny legend
@@matrixgtav1876 SKINNYLEGEND27
True 👏🏼
😂😂😂👍🏻 Oml
A Dumbo Octopus
Oh no...
The old memes...
Theyre coming back...
tHe lEgEnD 27
Lol lol
Your Coraline videos convinced me to read the book and I'm so glad I did! This is the type of book I could read over and over again. Would definetly recommend for any one who likes reading and slightly disturbing stories.
Did y’all know that coraline was a typo. The author meant to write Caroline but he just went with it
thats cool
Yea and dude even created a new name
@@mysticalspace2596 I love this name; If i ever get a daughter, she will be named Coraline
I think that it was a good thing there was a typo because an O is better at representing a button then an A
I thought the movie was creepy before I even watched it because Coraline sounded creepy and wrong
The talisman that Coraline got is actually a hag stone. They are said to be a sacred object. Different names can be witch stones, adder stones, and fairy stones. It is said you can see spirits through the stone like fairies hence the other name fairy stone. This is why she was able to see the souls.
This is a very interesting bit of info. Here in South America the native peoples have amulets like those too, they're little stone-carved green frogs
@@MrsStormtrooper A lot of cultures have talismans to see other worlds or spirits so that's always a cool find when you can get a new place of origin for one :)
Also can you tell me more or share a web page about those carved frogs It sounds interesting 👀
They can also see through witch disguises
Is everyone going to ignore how AWESOME these vids are? The artwork and editing is as fun to watch as the movie. Perfection abitfrank 👌👌👌
This ladys voice also is very.... Likeable
SSSSSSSIMP!
Both are great, having achieved their respective goals as media, but I actually enjoy the movie more. It is an insidious trap that anyone could fall prey to. The book, on the other hand, has no trick. It was chilling from the start, making the tone extremely static. I enjoy the juxtaposition that the movie offered. If anything, I wish that the movie had embraced that same level of horror once the cat was out of the bag. The switch from kid-utopia to Lovecraftian horror could have been truly terrifying (as opposed to the movie's mere "creepy"). By combining the strengths of both, Coraline has the potential to create an even more profound story.
Literally we have a closet under the stairs and in the back of the closet is a TINY DOOR that leads to under the stairs. I was convinced that if I went there at night there would be a bright purple tunnel waiting for me.
Judge_Mental D3v1Ls Same, I have a tiny little door like in the movie, and I can always hear rats, running through the door at night..
In our former Apartment there was this medium-small sized door and me being me I refused to go in there but my Pawpaw wanted to know what was in there and opened it and it was just an attic
...D O N T
We also have a door under the staircase but it's not tiny. It's just a closet that we store out tools so if need something like that.
My cousins have tiny doors that lead to the attic in some of their bedrooms... pretty sure there's three of the doors...
Which is the same amount of children that got tricked in the movie...
One difference I really like about the movie instead of the book is how her parents DON’T actually disappear until later.
It only happens after Coraline has visited more than once despite being warned by the circus mice to “not go through the little door” and after being told she’s in danger by the performance ladies. So in a way, she brought on her parents’ kidnapping through her own decisions and felt the consequences of falling to temptation.
A very adult theme in a “kid’s” movie.
Also how did Coraline trust the other mother when she was all skinny from the beginning.
She didn't trust her when she saw the button eyes and the weird behavior of the other parents. She went back only after she felt like the other world would be an improvement
Dude, Coraline's like 21 years old now. Not the movie, but Coraline.
Creepy dude: so you're saying she's legal?
Normal person: dude seriously?
@@whyamiatree4177 Sounds like what the other mother would say lol.
wait really? was there a time skip or something?
You did the “math” XD
Coraline was made in 2009-
The fact that your avatar even resembles Coraline was that icing on the cake that got me invested in this video. Can't wait to see more of your stuff.
Movie Coraline: I’m too old for dolls 🙄
Also movie Coraline: [carries the doll everywhere she went around the house]
That's so in character for a kid as young as Coraline XD
Literally thought the same thing 😂😂😂
I mean she's only 11 idk why she'd think she's too old
@Lady Seashell Bikini I guess she also may feel alone and thats why she took the doll everywhere
stop stealing other peoples comments for a few likes lowlife
What is creepy is i’ve had dreams of three rooms in my house that don’t exist, two in the basement leading to a bedroom that is not there and a bit of a sterile lab or kitchen, both with filled in window wells. The final room was always a small door in the back of a closet which would lead to a mirror form of the closet, the door locked shut. In said closet was always whatever I wanted or needed. I had those dreams for decades (almost two to be precise), long before I ever heard of Coraline.
wow
holy jesus that sounds TERRIFYING
u should write a horror book about that...
Oh hell no man
dont be shy, tell us some more...
That's pretty spooky 😨
I mean, if you want Coraline nightmare fuel, just play the Video game on the Nintendo Wii. As someone who adored the film as a small child,the game was slightly more... traumatic.
What about it is scary? Does it have a story?
@@myachi_art Eek, I have faint memories of seeing that and I do think it's just generally more unsettling.
Tbh the game was stressful at time which made it more traumatic as a kid
A game about Coraline?
Woah how did I not know there was a game lol
there's a graphic novel version of the book that contains all those creepy, slimy, terrifying details but all visually portrayed. its so cool and looks just like the author's description, I really recomend it!
Great video! The visual style of Henry Selick films has always been my favorite. Did you see that he is working on a TV show for Little Nightmares? Seems like a promising match. I'm glad he's finally working on things again after his studio was shut down by Disney.
Thank you! And um. Holy heck. Little Nightmares... how did I not know about this? He will absolutely make it terrifically terrifying!
Dude he's working on an adaptation of Little nightmares? That is right up his alley!
Nevercake I’m gonna watch Little Nightmares videos and then the movie
I did not know about this lmao
She’s not scary, yellow jacket, blue hair! She’s so cute!
Well it’s not the protagonist that scared me, it was the ANTAGONIST.
Phantomartist !!! What’s an antagonist??
@@val-cx6wr An antagonist is the bad guy and a protagonist is the good guy.
I think her point was more that the aesthetic choices of the movie set a much less creepy tone than the aesthetics of the book. The book is actually illustrated by Dave McKean, and his illustrations are very dark and angular, serving up a much more unsettling feeling. While I can always appreciate a good stop motion animation, and especially a Tim Burton one, McKean's illustrations go a long way in setting a darker mood for the book than the brightly colored movie.
TL;DR She meant that the movie was more colorful and therefore less creepy
@@eveninglyric687 Just a small correction, this is a Henry Selick movie, not Tim Burton although Coraline's been commonly attributed to him before
I swear the god i love the antagonist(beldam) and the protagonist(coraline).
They should make a Coraline game inspired by the book, something like Little Nightmares or Alice Madness Returns
They did for the wii
@@obsidian_k.i.d8725 and the PS2
There is, it was called identity v
Or maybe just like Fran Bow or Sally face
Armyyyy!
i think the movie's little details and changes were extremely creative and still made the story creepy, just in different ways. both are marvelous and it's so amazing to have read the book and then gotten to see the world come to life with so much creativity.
Movie Coraline is like a kid who was tricked by a adult figure that they trusted.
Book Coraline is the same kid, but because of being tricked, doesnt feel safe anywhere, and cant trust anyone.
i mean, horror books are always like that, right?
I wasn't really scared of the movie my parents were, right after Coraline came out Mattel came out with the Lalaloopsy dolls and my parents REFUSED to buy me one after watching Coraline.
Saaaaaaaaame
Omg for me I was playing with a Lalaloospy doll when my dad and brother were watching it and my brother was so scared of the doll after that
All my friends were terrified of Lalaloopsies because of Coraline, but I think the movie was part of the reason why I collected them. :)
ETPS omg me too
I was disappointed when I couldn't get lalaloopsy dolls anymore, I loved them, especially because of coraline
I'm convinced I wouldn't able to read the book because my boy wybie ain't there.
I'll still read it, but imma miss that curly haired weirdo
I spot a Hyunjin stan
u dang right
I read the book, it gave me nightmares for a week
HYUNJIN
As a rat owner, I absolutely love the rats in the book & their creepy little song
Rats
We're rats
We're the rats
We prey at night, we stalk at night,
We're the rats
"Im the giant rat, that makes all of the rules!"
Let's see what kinda trouble we can get ourselves into!
My anthem
Is that from the book?
@@-csotanypure-5106
No lmao. It's a video
@@mothmaiden4413 okay okay...i was just asking T-T
My sad lil soul cries in pain
@@-csotanypure-5106 Search "rats we're the rats"
This movie horrified me growing up
Her: it could have been scarier
Same, I never even finished it
“What was creepier, the Coraline book or movie?”
(Me) *Yes*
B O O K
IVE NEVER GOT THIS MANY LIKES OMG 😂
I didn't even know there was a book
Verynn chill it’s my opinion not fact u might think differently and that’s absolutely fine
Verynn I know what creepy means do u know what opinion means?
Even thought the book is way more graphic and gorey,what made the movie so good was that it gave us a false of security with the warm food,a pretty garden,a piano that plays itself and even a friend.The dolls spying were much creepier than rats because as a kid we feel safe,warm and happy with our toys.Our friends spying on us,betraying us is waaay creepier than a bunch of rats..
Your animation in this video really looks it comes out from the game Don't Starve™
*I love it.*
I love that game. I used to play it every day with my friends.
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your grandma is calling you,
w h y w e r e y o u b o r n
wow this got a lot of likes
I love how salty she is 😂
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The book does sound ALOT scarier but in the movie it feels just as scary but just more subtle, it gives it a dream-like feeling and this is all the other mothers work to lure Coraline to stay with her by making a world of wonders.
I don’t think coralline was made to be an horror, I think it was suppose to be creepy not scary and I think they did a pretty good job at it
And I’m talking about the movie
Creepy is horror dude.
saliorseal there’s an difference between
Having nightmares for days ( horror )
And ooh that was creepy ( creepy )
@@CheesyCrepe I personally find creepy stuff unsettling enough to make me stay up at night for days. Like the short film Belly is creepy, not scary, but it still made me stay awake for a few days and be more hesitant and freaked about going in the ocean. Creepy classifies as horror.
saliorseal fine then
Horror and thriller
Coralline is an thriller not an horror
@@CheesyCrepe oh my bad i forgot what a thriller was. thx for reminding me, you are correct. :)
Honestly I watched this when I was around 9 and I wasn’t scared at all. It was kinda creepy, but I honestly loved it
JOKES ON YOU I WAS 5 AND NO FEAR KICKED IN ALSO LOST MY FEAR WHEN I WAS 10
I watched it at 11 and got a strange sense of deja vu even though I'm pretty sure I never read the book before seeing it and if that's not creepy, idk what is. I still love it though XD
I watched it when I was 7 and Coraline was my fave movie :>
I watched it when I was 9 and it inspired my love of horrer
Same, and I never left me that this movie was sooooo goood
Neil gaiman: says that coraline throws a cat
PETA: *SAY SIKE RN*
funny because PETA would enjoy that
P.I.A.A.O.P.S.S.I
(Peta Is An Abusive Organization Please Stop Supporting It)
That’s part of the joke guys. Since they’re HUGE hypocrites and complain about every little god damn thing.
Neil gaiman: says that coraline throws a cat
PETA: no we could have needlessly euthanized that!
PETA: IF YOU DON'T SAY SIKE RIGHT NOW DUDE
Those rats little voices scared me the most while watching this video
“We are small and we are many, we are many and we are small.”
Me and my friends tho
Frooyay more like me and all my friends are like 6’0
Frooyay your rats ???? jk 😂
I'm the tall friend (5'3) all my friends are short
@@epiccpotato5902 can't relate lol
Frooyay I’m the only small one in my friend group.
Man. Your animation style would make a awesome adaptation of the book!
They should have her do some voice acting.
I read the graphic novel, and enjoyed the creepiness of it. Then again, I read it when I was older, about 11 years old. And the decaying parts are what got me, and kinda made me sick.
There's a graphic novel?
@@hunterpaynekeyes162 yeah.. I saw it in Barnes and noble. Its in the kids section! I don't know why, like as a kid I would of been terrified...
@@hunterpaynekeyes162 yeah, we hav3 an online library at our school, and its the first graphic novel to show up. It was pretty good, if you like coraline, but definately creepy.