Coraline's Scariest Monster Is NOT the Other Mother

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Creator: Makes book for his daughter. Also creator: Adds so much lore that it’s still being talked about to this day

Coraline, in book and film form, set the bar HIGH for a children's gothic fantasy story and hope that it remains for the next generations to come.

Theorists: "did coraline ACTUALLY escape?" The writers: "well yes, but no"

For some reason I can't stop thinking that the tunnel have similar characteristics to caterpillars: they can glow, they have fur and they can squash and stretch. Also, Coraline has an ongoing bug theme trough the entire film

the other mother feeds on love and life energy, she doesn't actually eat the children.. but SOMETHING does.

Coraline: crawls through creepy tunnel Also Coraline: "Why do I hear boss music?"

Assuming the tunnel is a monster sleeping , and that every time she goes through it to escape it becomes more awake and more intent on trapping her in , I shudder to think what would've happened if she had gone through that tunnel one more time .

I honestly think that the Other Mother and the Beldam are two different personalities, her main goal wasn’t to just lure children and kill them, but to bring back the idea of having a child, when Coraline first arrives, the Other Mother is very kind and warm, but as Coraline visits more often, she starts to have a different personality, like a normal parent dealing with a child that is growing up.

Coraline gripped me so hard as a kid that it’s like 11 years later and I STILL can’t get over it.

There are forms of carnivorous plants that have symbiotic relationships with spiders, if memory serves. Those plants tend to have tiny hairs as triggers.

When I read the book, I always felt like the corridor changed with Coraline’s emotions. Notice how the corridor became long and cold when she was trying to escape the Other Mother.

The fur theory around 9:10 is actually solid if you consider that cilia (microscopic hairs) are present in throats and mouths for the purpose of transporting the mucus which traps airborne contaminants in the throat. This being followed by the literal description of a mouth-like feeling makes me inclined to believe she is no longer in the belly of the beast, but the maw of the beast

The "Very old, and very slow"line was used so often in the books, I feel like it must be an author's hint on this tunnel beast...

Did someone notice in the movie that the other mother say "i'll die without you!" Maybe what she meant is she will be eaten if she don't do the sacrifice?

Considering Neil Gaiman has written several stories with Lovecraftian themes, I'd put my money on cosmic horror. It's also left vague because Gaiman understands filling in the blanks yourself makes it way more terrifying. He's a true master, in my opinion.

I think that the corridor is fear personified. In the beginning its fun and playful, because it's fun to be scared every once in awhile but as the book continues, it's gets more and more insidious. Think about all the thing that we're described about it, every one of it's descriptors are things that children might be frightened of, cold winds, voices, spider webs. And can you think of anything that is more old and slow that fear itself?

Coraline came out in 2009 and 10 years later in 2019, people like abitfrank still talk about it which is insane to me. Thank you for not forgetting about an amazing book and movie.

Imagine being an ancient being, just to exist as a tunnel

What I love about this random detail about the monster that exists in the tunnel is that it handily does a few things: 1: it establishes a reason why the other mother herself never crosses the boundary. There’s something that even SHE is afraid of. 2: we never even see or hear a description of what this creature is or even looks like from ANYONE. So it’s left open to our imagination to to be whatever or as terrifying as WE the readers want it to be. 3: no matter how scary any personal horror entity is, there is always something else lurking (again, leading back to point 1)