What is the creepiest part of Coraline?

During the "One, two, three!" scene, the Other Mother is not happy with Coraline's demands. We see her morph into half beldam, half other mother. This is easily the scariest scene of the film. The Beldam can be frightening to some.
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What is scary in Coraline?

The Monstrous Beldam Is A Horrifying Spider Made Of Needles

Perhaps the most horrific aspect of the movie is the Other Mother, a creature living in a world parallel to Coraline's. Known as the Beldam by her victims, the Other Mother is a button-eyed monstrosity that first appears to Coraline in the form of her mother.
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Can Coraline give you nightmares?

Some people didn't have nightmares after seeing Coraline for the first time, and frankly, we don't believe it. Twitter users are debating the horror level of the "family film," and while there are some incredible morals in the 2009 film, it's also scary as heck.
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Is Coraline scary for 11 year olds?

It's appropriate for ages 10+

It has some scary images, and some revealing clothing. And it gave my 4 year old sister a nightmare.
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Are there Jumpscares in Coraline?

Other Father pulls his mouth open grotesquely wide. There are a few jump scares during the scene when Coraline finds the ghost eyes.
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Is Coraline 2 coming out?

Due to Coraline's massive success in both the Academy and theatrical arena, it naturally made fans assume there would eventually be a sequel at some point. Unfortunately, it looks as though the likelihood of a sequel ever happening has been shut down by Gaiman.
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Why is Coraline's hair blue?

In the movie Coraline, when Coraline is getting ready to go to bed after not finding her parents there's an old photo that shows her with natural brown hair. This probably means she at one point dyed it to her iconic blue hair.
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Can a 3 year old watch Coraline?

This is NOT a movie appropriate for any 9 year old unless you want them growing up to be a murderer. The beginning of the movie is boring and slow. She meets a boy who finds a doll that looks exactly like Coraline and gives it to her.
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Is the Beldam a human?

In the novel, the Beldam was implied to be a former human, who somehow became a demonic fae-like creature later on, presumably after death. She hints this to Coraline when she recounts how she buried her own mother alive in a grave as a child.
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Is the beldam still alive?

So, Coraline didn't make it out of the Rat Beast limbo world. But she was able to get away from the Other Mother. Without Coraline, the beldam died.
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What does Coraline's dad call her?

Other Father: "Making up a song about Coraline. She's a peach, she's a doll, she's a pal of mine. She's as cute as a button in the eyes of everyone who ever laid their eyes on Cor-a-line.
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How old should you be to read Coraline?

Neil Gaiman's Coraline is a can't-miss classic that enthralls readers age 8 to 12 but also adults who enjoy a perfect smart spooky read.
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Is Coraline movie kid friendly?

Parents need to know that Coraline will scare young kids. Slightly less creepy than the book on which it was based, the movie is still quite dark, and the "other" world that Coraline discovers turns into a frightening, dangerous place where she could very well die (and other ghost children already have).
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Should Coraline be rated PG 13?

Rating & Content Info. Why is Coraline rated PG? Coraline is rated PG by the MPAA for thematic elements, scary images, some language and suggestive humor. The fantastical world of Coraline is filled with eccentric characters, frightening scenes and moments of peril for the young heroine.
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Is Coraline a fever dream?

Coraline is like a fairy tale fused with a fever dream, all about illusions and untruths and how terrible it would be to have button eyes sewed into your face. When Coraline steps through the locked door in her family's new flat, she finds a world which caters to her every whim.
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Are Coraline's parents abusive?

For example, it's clear her parents are extremely neglectful of her; her mother Mel (Teri Hatcher), in particular, doesn't seem to like her daughter very much at all — and makes no secret of it, either.
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Is Coraline scary Reddit?

This is one of the scariest movies I have seen to this day. The evil, the manipulation, the disfigurement caused by the other mom. I remember being taken as a kid to go see this maybe 9 with friends and we were all scared.
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Why does Coraline's mom have a neck brace?

Mr. Bobinsky, an eccentric Russian man with a circus of dancing mice, has blue skin, the result of contamination from the Chernobyl disaster. Coraline's mother wears a neck brace for the duration of the film, the victim of an unseen car accident.
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Can the cat in Coraline Teleport?

And the "cat" teleport through the sign at the end of the movie, which is something he only does in the Other World, showing that Coraline never left/escaped from the other world and she only think that she did because she's in a fake copy of her own world somewhere in the Other World.
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Who is the real villain in Coraline?

The Beldam (also known as The Other Mother when disguised as her victims' mothers) is the main antagonist of Neil Gaiman's 2002 dark fantasy young adult novel Coraline, which was adapted into Laika's 1st full-length animated feature film of the same name.
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Is Coraline 2 fan made?

Coraline 2: The Door Reopens is the fan-made sequel by Breslyn It comes out in 2010.
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