Anicia Dixon
Variety Editor
Movie-goers flocked to theaters for the nostalgia of watching “Coraline” again for the film’s 15th anniversary. Starting in August, “Coraline” was screened in select theaters, with a newly remastered 3D version.
The film begins with 11-year-old Coraline adapting to a new environment. However, she has a hard time adjusting to what her parents are trying to share with her. While adjusting to a new lifestyle, she finds herself in a dangerous predicament.
Coraline discovers a mysterious door to an alternate world with a different set of parents. She quickly realizes the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.
“Coraline” is a family-based horror stop-motion film. It was originally PG-13 but has recently been changed to Rated R due to the scary theme. Nonetheless, reviews from fans (via Google) range between 4 and 5 stars.
According to Animation Magazine on oreganlive.com, $11.6 million was made from the 2024 re-release, remaining a classic.
Gregory Underwood, a junior elementary education major from Jackson, Miss., expressed his thoughts on the film.
“The film will always scare me lol, but the film remains a childhood classic,” said Underwood.
Kyle, a Google reviewer, called it a “dark delight.”
The re-debut of “Coraline” brought in over $20 million dollars at the worldwide box office. Old fans gained the nostalgic feeling the movie once brought. New fans got their first time experiencing the film.
The animation has been compared to the book by Coraline supporters. In 2009, the creators of “Coraline” based the movie on the 2002 published “Coraline” book by Neil Gaiman.
The creators of “Coraline” made a behind-the-scenes special for the film’s anniversary. During this, the creators explained the direction they took for the film and explained each section’s process.
The stop-motion film was created with clay and took four years to make. According to Weebly.com, there were 24 frames per second of the movie, so considering the film is 100 minutes long, that’s 144,000 frames to be shot to create this movie.
The behind-the-scenes at the end of the film also showcased the creators making different individual faces for Coraline and other characters. A whopping 15,000 replacement faces were made for each character because of its fragility.
Over 500 people were involved in the creation of the film. Director Henry Selick and the screenwriter went through a lot of drawings, sculptures, and versions of her hair.
Selick stated, “The main thing was to let her be a beacon of color.”
LAIKA Studios shared that 28 identical puppets of the lead character Coraline were created. Each took 10 people four months to build.
Coraline’s colorful character has had several faces for one piece of dialogue. The tedious process of Coraline gives a new appreciation for the film.
A Google review from Ray suggests that Coraline, “is a world of imagination that has been sewed up with every possible desire that we all had ever imagined… This movie made me so full of tears and gratitude with its thoughtfulness; I didn’t see that coming.”
Nonetheless, the dedication to the 2009 film did not go unnoticed as a misunderstood blue-haired little girl filled movie screens.
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