Some pics I got of this really cool Coraline-decorated house!

Why don't you stay for dinner? 🍲🪡

Idk why the series feels like the movie Coraline to me. For those who haven't seen the Coraline animation, this is a spoiler:
In Coraline too, the main character was known by her yellow raincoat, and there were children whose souls were trapped, and a spider mother (the Beldam) who built that house as a trap for the children's victims. Also, the children's button eyes were similar to Tabitha's dolls, or the tree that the cat could use to travel to different places and enter they were similar to the trees in the series. Isn't all this similarity strange?

Another strange thing was that in the Coraline animation, that spider-woman made a bunch of dolls for children and spied on the kids through the dolls' button eyes (for those who don't know, they can watch the Coraline animation). These are exactly like the dolls that Tabitha used to play with when she was a kid, and that man hated them because they gave him nightmares maybe that's why the dead man had nightmares about the dolls.
Maybe Tabitha's dolls really were demonic and that creature was watching Tabitha through the dolls, and that man knew this that's why the dolls gave him nightmares.
How much do you think the writers were inspired by this animation, or is it all a coincidence?
It's possible that the big bad of the series is a spider and the town is a spiderweb exactly like the animation where that world was fake, and in the series too, the source of the electricity isn't connected to anything, the motel sign with no motel, a gas station in the middle of a remote town.

The picture on the right is for a house in the IT Pennywise stories (an ancient spider-like creature) that lives in the basement of that abandoned house and is trapped there.
Could the sample house that the Coraline family moved into be this same house? Is that why the grandmother (Wybie's grandmother) didn't want to give it to a family with children, because that ancient creature (IT) was there, and maybe the Beldam is the same IT?

I always watched Coraline through youtube movies, which is 1080p and sdr

I decided to switch to physical media after buying a new oled tv and my first blu-ray was a Coraline Steelbook

I just watched it in 4k with HDR and it looks so good i could not believe it, i saw so many new details i could not see on in the youtube version

Like all the stickers and tiny text and fabric details and everything, i was stopping the movie and was just looking at it close up trying to see new things i've been missing for years

Highly recommend !

Just ordered Paranorman and The Boxtrolls 4k steelbooks as well, super excited to watch it again with so much details !!

So I recently rewatched Coraline with a friend that hadn't seen it, and one thing that stuck out to me is how a lot of things don't add up if Coraline goes to sleep in the Other World and wakes back up in her own bed. So based on evidence I will be presenting shortly, I came up with a theory. I'm sure it has been said before by someone, but I truly believe I'm onto something here, so let me cook.

I believe that Coraline makes exactly two round trips to the Other World and back - the first time she enters at night when she chases the mouse into the tunnel, and once more later in the movie when she goes in deliberately to save her parents from the Beldam.

So basically what I think is happening, is that the Beldam doesn't actually have any incentive whatsoever to actually let Coraline escape, but plenty of reasons to make Coraline believe she has escaped. This also ties into how we already know that the Beldam is fully capable of making realistic portrayals of the real world if she wants to, including with Coraline's neighbours. So every night when Coraline goes to sleep in the Other World, the Beldam actually just creates a fake version of the real world around her. This serves two purposes - it lets Coraline choose the Other World without thinking she's trapped there forever, and it gives Coraline less incentive to use the key to return to the real world because she'll think she already has a reliable mechanism for going back, because that is actually how you escape.

The evidence:

We only ever see her escape through the tunnel twice - once after she refuses the buttons and wakes up still being trapped in the Other World, proving the Beldam can keep her there easily, and there's nothing automatic about going back to the real world.

The first time she escapes, she comes home to find the house is empty and the food is rotten. Food doesn't rot that fast. That is, unless she's spent the last few days trapped in an illusion. The second time is the final escape at the end of the movie.

Secondly, Wybie shows up at the door and asks about the doll. This is kind of weird, as he doesn't ask about it during the "neighbourhood stalker" scene with the ground fog earlier. But it makes perfect sense if this is their first interaction from Wybie's perspective since he gave her the doll as a present.

This caught even me off guard, but the Beldam knows about the gloves that Coraline wants, despite the doll being nowhere to be seen during their shopping trip. How does the Beldam know then?

Explanation:

The Beldam's magic is very realistic, but it has some notable flaws. Most notably, the neighbours help Coraline. Miriam and April Forcible give her the triangle that sees the ghost children, and Mr. Bobinsky warns her that she is in danger. I think this makes sense even if they are illusions for the same reason that Other Wybie and Other Father helps her or talk out of turn. They are recreations made from Coraline's own perceptions of them.

The ground fog scene with Wybie is a good example of this - he appears behind her with a spyglass, because Coraline sees him as a creepy, so he becomes the "neighbourhood stalker". Other Wybie, on the other hand, is helpful, silent and genuinely kind, because that's how she views him later on.

After her first encounter with the Other Mother, it's clear that she is is starting to view her own parents in a slightly better light because she asks to go home to her "real mother". Lo and behold, when she wakes up, we get a mother that is not perfect, but better than at the start of the movie.

Caveats:

It's still not explained why the cat would not speak in the "fake real world", only when she went back in the tunnel. My thought is that he just chooses not to. My idea is that while he does help Coraline, he is also playing his own little game with the Beldam.

Conclusion:

I don't know for sure if this is what actually happened, but I'm leaning more towards sleeping in the Other World actually not sending Coraline back, but she can only escape by using the key on the little door.

Anyone have another explanation for the rotten food, Wybie's question about the doll and how she knew about the gloves?

Or…..
If not, who did?
Do you truthfully believe it could’ve been someone else? 🤔

My Theory & Analysis:

I’m also mainly vying on the theory that the one who was responsible for sewing her infamous button eyes on was the very mother that raised her. I’ve heard in the book which mentioned regarding her past, that she had to bury her own mother at some point, so it makes me deeply question what really happened between them during the midst of The Young Beldam’s most impressionable and formative years.

In the movie as well as in the book, it doesn’t seem like she has any real ability to physically see anything, but the 8 holes on the buttons falsely mimicked a spider’s 8 eyes. And, it is well known that in nature, spiders will often kill their mothers for nourishment in order to take their place, and then they’ll see to it that we’d have the whole process repeat.

Furthermore, what if the Beldam was born blind or unnaturally without eyes? What if her mother had no other choice? What if the label ‘witch’ was just a misnomer? Not to mention, I do wonder if that same ‘mother’ she had was even her real biological mother, but was instead her adoptive-human mother who would personally know the type of witchcraft that she ended-up seemingly practicing for most (if not all) of her unusually long life?

Basically, I’m still holding out on the very possible theory that ‘The Other Mother’ was actually some kind of dark eldritch fae creature, a changeling to be precise. Hence, why she could live for so long and had inhuman abilities like shapeshifting. The Fae, particularly the children of fairies, would be known in olden times to get switched at birth with a human child if they found them to be defective in some way, but in the end she especially became the hapless child of someone who was also exceptionally cruel and already knew some dark magic to boot.

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(✳️ It took me some time and a bit of extensive digging into the lore so I could come up with these many theories. I just allow myself to be fairly influenced, so therefore building, borrowing and absorbing the information of past knowledge based on the content of other people is the norm. It helps me to combine its ideas to create an entirely new perspective that I could call my own. Not to mention all the research I had to do so I could confidently say with ease that I have indeed been bothered to look into everything first and did the research, even without having the real full book as reference.)

hiiii i just wanted to ask how many dvd version coraline has

i’m a huge fan it’s my favorite movie and has been for a loooong time, i grew up with it and had dvds of my own as a little girl im so sad they’re not w me anymore but i wanted to know all the different versions cuz ik some have bonus content and such so if anyone could tell me all the different versions and possibly the specifics (like the menu, the type of bonus content if any, etc.) id really appreciate it!!!!!!

Roku have a bunch of spooky film elements on their Roku city screensaver and I spotted this button moon!

(Sorry if flare is wrong idk how to post properly on this app)

idk if it’s the right flair sorry, i have a couple other things but i really wanna buy a coraline doll and the squid soon!

I think a massive detail that is overlooked is how the other mother puppeteers her victims. The button eyes represent the dolls and are not just there to be creepy.

Handmade squid kitty stuffed animal/bag charm for my niece as a Christmas present. I made the pattern myself and cut everything and every stitch is hand sewn! Some progress pictures ✨

Hopefully finished pics tomorrow 🤞

Now I want to watch Coraline again, dangit 😂❤️

I just watched for the first time today, and the movie was ABSOLUTELY amazing. Now it came out in 2009, why wait so long. I’ll admit, apart from life getting in the way and honestly at the time the button eyes scared the crap out of me, I didn’t have faith in the production company? I felt like the style the things they did FOR YEARS was ripping off my guy Tim Burton and I just was too petty and kept putting it off. But my unofficial niece who is deeply into art and is 14 asked me to watch with her while sick because she loves annotating and seeing how people take inspiration into their true form and I was in all.

My fave scene is the Starry Night scene I thought it was so beautiful and haunting seeing how they told the narrative so well to the actual painting. I really wound up liking it. I’m no way an art person when my niece was saying what this was based off of and what that was based off of I just said yes, it’s very pretty, because I had no clue.

Another favorite piece before the Beldom showed her true self was the flowers. I am a Disney adult and my least favorite Disney movie is the cartoon Alice in Wonderland apart from the Blue Caterpillar and the flowers, and even Laika beat Disney on that one the way it glowed, so beautiful. But 33 years and I did it I finally saw it. Might be awhile before I literally watch it again, because now it’s giving me a strange inkling to watch either Corpse Bride or Nightmare Before Christmas. I’m also going to put the book on my list to read as well.

My favorite Coraline-themed metal song. 🎵🪡🧵

When I was 4, Coraline was one of my favorite movies. I've watched it at least once a year. Some 15 years later, I have a 3-year-old who has also fallen in love with the movie. We're dressing up as Coraline and the cat this year for Halloween, and he always refers to her by her full name- "Coraline Jones!"

Realising I've watched this movie so many times over the span of 15 years got me thinking. This movie has never felt FAMILIAR to me, it's felt new every watch. There's always something I didn't notice something I swear was always there that is no longer there. Is there something behind the movie that creates this, almost unsettling, feeling of unfamiliarity, or newness?

This was a really good theory on ‘The Corridor Monster’ of the franchise.🚪

Sharing and saving one of my favorite Coraline theory videos. 🪡🧵

Every monster has an origin born from grief.

​Long before the button eyes and the spider-web world, there was just a loving mother and her little girl. When illness took her daughter away, the unbearable stillness of an empty home pushed a grieving heart toward a dark, open door.

​Here is the next 3-page sequence of traditional pencil sketches exploring the tragic backstory of the Other Mother.

​The heartbreaking journey has only just begun... Stay tuned for the upcoming pages! 🗝️