Why Is The Movie Coraline So Disturbing?

Just a quick note:

 SPOILER ALERT

I was watching E4 as they had their usual How I Met Your Mother and Big Bang Theory episodes on, then I saw that Coraline was on afterwards. So I thought to myself, "I'm a big movie fan, you could even consider me a movie buff and I haven't seen Coraline before. Let's see what it's like."

My GOD it's disturbing. I like the style of animation, very Nightmare Before Christmas-y and it's lovely and I could go on but you get the idea. The opening scene made me think it was a different movie, I was genuinely freaked out by it, when the doll is getting pulled apart, stuffed and so on. So the movie goes on and she finds the door. The door is basically what I'm calling Limbo, the other side is literally the opposite of everything. Where her mother has time for her and her dad doesn't look like he spilt a bottle of mascara on each eye.

Seems ordinary, apart from everyone's eyes are sown shut and are buttons...

This movie. Makes buttons. Look scary. I feel slightly afraid to put any of my shirts on now, only problem is that's all I have to wear, because I only wear the richest and finest clothes as I'm eating my Lobster on my patio, with a glass of the finest red wine.

But it turns out the mother wants to sow up Coraline's eyes. You get the subtle hints, when the show Coraline see's is over, the mother stands at the door, points to her friend (name escapes me) and points to her mouth, giving her the most grimacing smile, ever. Afterwards, things start getting weird immediately. She sits down at the table and she gets a gift! Hooray! What could it be? Perfume, clothes, buttons-it's buttons. Two black buttons and a needle.

It gets even MORE disturbing when the father is playing the piano, the gloves come out and keep forcing him to face the piano, playing and playing. This film is starting to creep me out, but it can't get any creepi-it turns out everyone has been stuffed by the mother and is being controlled by her. The cat shows this by biting one of the circus mice, which makes the grains fall out of it, turning it into a rat. But, if the rats were stuffed, were the people stuffed as well? Like, the father, was he stuffed? Some poor bloke got killed, emptied, turned inside out and buttoned up to live in this creepy fantasy.

The mother turns into a giant spider, thing and runs after Coraline. That's when I drew the line. Mostly because the face and the ghost children were creeping me the hell out. So I did a bit more searching and this damn movie. It's somehow a PG film. I'm serious, the ghosts in that thing are the creepiest things I've seen, One of them has their mouth permanently hung open and starts FLOATING towards the screen. I can only imagine what the 3D on this movie would have been like if they did put it in 3D.

The movie thinks it's a good idea to keep zooming in on the gho- more creepy stuff follows. Honestly worse than the ghosts. His mouth was stitched up, permanently. Just like The Joker. I don't want to spoil the rest of the movie, mostly because it's still on and I haven't seen the ending yet, but I honestly recommend this over a lot of horror movies today, because this is seriously creepy.

Just, keep away from the cupboards.