It’s never too early (or late) to learn that as dire as a situation might seem, it can always be worse. The 2009 movie Coraline hammers that concept into kids and adults alike during one of the creepiest animated films of all time.
Dakota Fanning (Coraline Jones) and Teri Hatcher (Mel Jones) lead the charge as a fraught mother-daughter duo. On top of Hatcher’s role as Coraline’s actual mother, she also plays a twisted iteration called the Other Mother. In the Other Mother’s alternate universe, button eyes are all the rage. But not everything is what it seems when Coraline’s Other parents attempt to coax her into leaving the family she knows for a seemingly better life.
