2009 · animation · family · horror
Coraline
Directed by Henry Selick1h 40m2009
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.
Our read: Coraline (2009) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive animation · family · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, steady, measured animation / family, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- intense
- inventive
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How Coraline feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want gorgeous stop-motion fantasy that gets genuinely creepy before it warms.”
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