What was behind the locked door when Coraline first opened it?

However, when Coraline's parents were sleeping, a beautiful passage colored in blues and purple lights appears when the small door was opened. Later, the tunnel transforms into an old, decrepit state, filled with cobwebs and old toys stuck in the walls, a sign of the Other World's true nature starting to unwind.
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What was the tunnel in Coraline?

In the book, Coraline says that the tunnel sounds like it's breathing and when she reaches out her hand, it feels like she's put it in someone's mouth. What exactly is the beast? It could be a large Mother Rat, using her rat children to help feed her.
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How did Coraline trick the Other Mother into unlocking the door?

The ghost children warn her that even if Coraline wins, the Other Mother will not let them go, so Coraline tricks the Other Mother by announcing that she knows where her parents are hidden: in the passageway between the worlds.
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How does Coraline find the door in the book?

Bobo, referred to as "the crazy old man upstairs." He's attempting to train mice for a circus, and he tells Coraline that his mice warn her to not go through the door. But she doesn't listen. Back in her flat, Coraline opens the mysterious door again. This time, it leads to a flat that's identical to her own.
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How did Coraline's mom know which key?

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Mel Jones is truly a woman of mystery and confusion. After Coraline tells her parents about the other mother and the other father, Mel locks the door and (very badly) hides the key. Coraline finds the key hanging above the doorway in the kitchen and uses her crazy balancing skills to reach it.
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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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What is the beldam true form?

After Coraline grabbed all of the three eyes of the Ghost Children, the Beldam is shown in her true form - a cross between a skeleton and an arachnid. Her face is cracked and her hands are made of sewing needles. She stays in this form for the remainder of the movie.
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Why does the beldam have button eyes?

The button eyes were the objects used by the beldam to tie one's soul to the other world.
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What is behind the door Coraline finds?

One day, Coraline is home alone and left to her own devices. When she unlocks the door, there is a hallway, and after following it, she finds an alternate universe consisting of a nearly duplicate apartment where her “other” parents speak to her.
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Why was Coraline's doll filled with sand?

Trivia. It was stuffed with sand instead of cotton when spying on Coraline. This reflects her other creations too, as other Wybie, the hummingbirds, and the circus mice are full of sand too.
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Why does the other mother tap her fingers?

After Coraline had told her real mother it was the perfect time to go gardening in the rain (which she only said to have something to say), the other mother made her first mistake by suggesting to play in the rain. Coraline noticed her tapping her fingers on the table, which she had found rather awfully suspicious.
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Why did the other father help Coraline?

The Other Father is more fun and attentive to Coraline's needs than her real father (according to Coraline). It is hinted throughout the film that he is terrified of his creator, the Beldam, who wants him to hurt Coraline, which he does not want to do. The latter proves to be true in his final moments before he dies.
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What does the rats symbolize in Coraline?

Shortly after moving into her new house, Coraline can hear them singing at night—their song is an ominous one, and its lyrics suggest that the rats are an eternal, immortal presence waiting for the “fall” of the real world, humanity, or both.
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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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Why did wybie's grandma have the doll?

Even when her twin sister went missing, Mrs. Lovat kept the doll that used to belong to her sister in a trunk, perhaps for sentimental purposes. The doll, which used to look like her sister, was altered by the Beldam to look like Coraline, as seen in the beginning of the film.
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Who is the real villain in Coraline?

The Beldam (also known as "The Other Mother") is the main antagonist of Laika's 1st full-length animated feature film Coraline, which was based on the novel of the same name by Neil Gaiman.
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What mental illness does Coraline have?

Coraline's behavior is consistent with a psychotic-dissociative cluster as evidenced by her experiencing an alternate universe as well as incorporating fixed beliefs. As these are critical parts of the plot, it is best to formulate Coraline's behavior along a psychotic-dissociative spectrum.
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Why does wybie tilt his head?

In response to sounds around him Wybie tilts his head to the side, giving the impression that he is constantly in a state of being startled, since most people do not react with so much motion to common sounds.
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What does the other mother want from Coraline?

The other mother doesn't want the mushy kind of a love, she wants the "it's mine to enjoy" kind of love. She looks at kids, and everyone around her, as objects to control, and this type of love ends up destroying people.
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How old is Coraline 2021?

Coraline is 19 years old today.
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What's Coraline full name?

Coraline Jones is a Feisty curious adventurer and is the main protagonist of all Coraline productions. She moved from Pontiac, Michigan with her parents to the Pink Palace Apartments in Ashland, Oregon.
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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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