Old Spook Lane Creepy Chats: Coraline

Old Spook Lane Creepy Chats is back with its 4th year covering spooky stop motion animated films. Arun and Patricia start off with the 2009 Laika animated film Coraline based on the book by Neil Gaiman. A young teenage girl named Coraline Jones and her parents move into a new house in Oregon. Her parents are catalog writers for plants, flowers, and gardening and are too busy to give Coraline any attention. When she discovers a hidden door by the living room, she discovers another world where she meets with doppelgangers of her parents, neighbors, and home where everything is colorful, bright, and receiving attention and love from her Other Mother and Other Father. But then a cat tells her that things are not what they seem and Coraline doesn't listen to him at first, but notices things go wrong when her parents go missing.When the film premiered in theaters, it was critically and commercially successful making $185 million dollars out of a $60 million dollar budget praising the story, characters, atmosphere, and animation. It was the film that put Laika on the map for releasing high quality stop motion animated films. How well does it hold up over 15 years later?