13 details and mistakes you probably missed in 'Coraline'
Erin Ajello
- "Coraline," the spooky stop-motion Halloween classic, came out in 2009 and is full of Easter eggs.
- Fans may have missed Coraline's father and Other Father being introduced in identical ways.
Wybie is introduced with his eyes covered, foreshadowing his place in the Other World.
When Coraline meets Wybie in the real world, he's wearing a mask that mirrors Other Wybie, who completely covers his sewn-up face.
Wybie cured Coraline's poison-oak rash.
Eagle-eyed viewers may notice that the mud on Wybie's hand during his handshake with Coraline cures her poison-oak rash.
Later, in the Other World, Other Mother puts mud on Coraline's left hand and says it's great for healing rashes.
When she woke up with two healthy hands, she realized the parallel universe wasn't just a dream.
The picture of Coraline's friends changes when she picks it up.
In a picture from Coraline's friends, a theater marquee spells her name out with a "3" instead of an "E."
Within seconds, the "E" is suddenly normal, but the "I" has become a "1."
The wires holding Coraline's notebook and pen are visible in one shot.
When Coraline drops her notebook and pen before discovering the Other World, wires attached to both items become visible.
The wires are likely moving the stop-animation props, and they disappear in the next frame.
Coraline's father and Other Father are introduced in identical ways.
When Coraline's father and Other Father are introduced, they turn to greet her, turn away, and turn back when she continues to interrupt them.
The only difference between their introductions is that Coraline's real father is on a computer and Other Father is playing the piano.
There are portraits of the three ghost children in the dining room.
Three ghost children greet Coraline in the Other World and warn her about falling into Other Mother's trap.
These ghosts seem to match up with the three portraits in Other Mother's dining room.
The neck joint of Other Father's puppet is visible for a frame.
The characters in the stop-animation film are puppets, and when Coraline tells Other Father that dinner is ready, he lifts his hands up, exposing the joint that attaches his neck to his body.
Other Mother almost never eats, and she might be starving Other Father.
Other Father eats massive meals but always seems to complain about being hungry.
It's implied that Other Mother — who's only ever seen eating beetles — only feeds him when Coraline is there to make the Other World seem more appealing.
Miss Spink and Miss Forcible make references to Shakespeare in both worlds.
Miss Spink and Miss Forcible have a poster in their house that says "Julius Sees Her" referencing Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." There's also a "King Leer" poster, which is a play on the Bard's "King Lear."
Other Miss Spink and Other Miss Forcible also perform a trapeze act while quoting Shakespeare's "Hamlet."
Other Mother lies about Coraline being able to choose her button-eye color.
Other Mother tries to make button eyes sound fun by saying Coraline can wear them in any color.
But this actually seems to be a lie to win Coraline over because every character has black button eyes.
Other Wybie wore a mask made of an oven mitt to cover his face.
Other Wybie covers his sewn-up face and button eyes with a mask that looks like a chicken.
It appears to be made out of the chicken oven mitts hanging in Other Mother's kitchen.
Other Mother's insect-like form is foreshadowed in both worlds.
Doors and windows in the real world have subtle, bug-shaped designs throughout the film.
Other Mother later morphs into a creature that's shaped very similarly to those bugs.
A clip showing the animation process with the portal appears after the credits.
A post-credit scene shows how clay mice were filmed in the portal between worlds.
The mice and other props were manipulated slowly to produce the spinning, stop-motion effect in "Coraline."
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