CORALINE ON SCREEN

Neil Gaiman talking about the stop-motion film:

"I think Coraline is perfect for stop-motion because:

THERE IS A REALNESS

BUT YOU CAN ALSO STYLISE YOUR REALITY"

mice could be fluffier but would that take away the creepiness and the hand-crafted, sculpted 'feel'

made to fit the rest of the sets and puppets?

Look more like gerbils to me, but they are supposed to be exotic jumping mice... not what I envisioned from reading the book

"It allows us to get really scary, in a way that if you did it in a live-action movie and shot it properly, nobody - adult or child - would want to go to sleep in the dark after they'd seen it."

I'm really enjoying learning more about the process of professional stop-motion and the work that goes into making a movie of this scale. watching how it's made EVEN JUST THE HAIR!

Henry Selick (LAIKA)

"I'm from the same planet, if not the same neighbourhood as Tim (Burton)"

GAIMAN, KAFKA, CARRINGTON AND POE ALIKE have written stories that belong in these worlds. Fantastical, creepy and magical. They were written to scare and spook readers, and work so well on screen in this medium because they can haunt in 3 dimensions, moving and performing beyond the limits of human bodies.