As Coraline collects ghost eyes, rumbling is heard on the moon. After collecting all three ghost eyes, the moon eclipses into a full button, and we hear a loud "BANG!". The entire world goes gray and fades, and Coraline and the cat make it inside, facing a final battle with the Beldam. She's completely cracked, creepy, and monstrous.
The start of the movie isn't intense but it is very gloomy and creepy, it shows the beldams sewing hands making a creepy doll of Coraline in a dark lit room and throwing it out of a window.
A scene were the other Wybie pulls Coraline from out the mirror played as a jump scare, she tries to resist and pull away, then pulls of the mask (looks like a chicken mask) revealing Wybie with a very freaky sewn-on smile, but turns out who is actually not evil and was actually helping her escape, still scary.
Coraline comes home, parents are stuck in a mirror in cold and write with their hands "HELP US", clearly terrified, Coraline smashes the mirror and cries, she later sees the doll except 2 faced with both her parents (creepy), she throws it angrily in a fire and it disintegrates, she makes pillows shaped as her parents faces pretending they are her parents (not disturbing but depressing)
Scenes that are scary and disturbing, some are loud, jumpscares, disturbing imagery, gloomy dark settings, creepy undertones, some violence, the artificial plastic world even when bright and happy looking still feels very fake and weird
The button eyes of the "Other" world are a prominent and creepy motif. Seemingly friendly characters appear with sewn buttons in place of their eyes, robbing them of humanity and instilling a chilling and uncanny appearance.
There are many scenes and images in "Coraline" that are likely to scare young children.
Parents should know because of strong horror themes, this is film is more for middle school kids.
Moderate/Severe for neurodivergent viewers.
The movie is very touching and scary.
The Other Mother screams in an insane, loud, high pitched way.
The Other Mother becomes extremely thin, and tall, with a grotesquely long neck, spindly mechanical looking fingers and legs. She is extremely menacing in both manner and speech. Her face also cracks at one point.
Other Father chases Coraline on a Praying Mantis-like contraption while wailing in a ghostly voice, this contraption attempts to spear Coraline as she runs from it.
Other Mother sews the mouth shut of the Other Father, and sews it into a grin in a misshapen manner.
Other Father pulls his mouth open grotesquely wide.
There are a few jump scares during the scene when Coraline finds the ghost eyes.