![]() This is rather fortuitous as Norman will need all the friends he can get when supernatural shenanigans begin to ensue around the 300th anniversary of the town’s execution of a witch… which leads to an ancient curse bringing the dead to life to exact revenge! Well, things begin looking up for Norman when he meets Neil (Tucker Albrizzi), an energetic optimist that counters our hero perfectly. This is only exasperated by the fact that Norman claims he can talk to his dead grandmother… well he not only claims he can do it, but he actually can too! New England middle-schooler Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is treated like absolute shit by everyone in his life… and I do mean everyone. ![]() Not to be undone, Shout! Factory has also released a new Blu-ray version of 2012’s ParaNorman, also created by the animation studio responsible for Coraline, LAIKA. Last comes a collection of deleted scenes, still galleries, and the film’s trailer. Next, we get the complete storyboards used to plan the picture (this runs 94 minutes and is a fascinating comparison between conception and finished film), and three behind-the-scenes featurettes. Kicking things off is an archival audio commentary with Henry Selick and composer Bruno Coulais, followed by new featurettes exploring the film’s characters (and the puppets used to bring them to “life”). While the feature is something special on its own, there are a veritable treasure chest of special features included on this Blu-ray release! Will Coraline find the reserve to stop the evil from the other dimension, and learn to lead a fulfilled childhood in her new rural environs?Ĭomprised of a dark sense of the fantastic and brought to life in jaw-droppingly gorgeous and expressionistic stop-motion animation, Coraline is the type of children’s movie we don’t get much these days bizarre, filled with fun adventure, and possessed of a stead-fast refusal to talk down to it’s audience, no matter how chilling the subject matter becomes.Īdding to this is a fantastic voice cast (whose ranks include Dakota Fanning as the titular character, and the legendary Keith David ( John Carpenter’s The Thing and They Live, HBO’s animated Spawn series) as that aforementioned cat), and meticulously detailed world building that makes both the “real” settings and the fantasy that lay beyond believable… no small feat considering the visual madness that parades across the screen! Now get this, that doll is soon up and about, and leads Caroline to a secret door in the apartment that opens upon a parallel nightmare universe populated by button-eyed, saccharine doppelgangers of her parents… not to mention other sinister surprises! ![]() While existing in her solitude, our heroine makes the acquaintance of her parent’s landlady’s grandson one, Wyborne “Wybie” Lovat (not to mention a black cat that always makes the scene), and before long her new pal hands Coraline a ragdoll his grandmother owns… and that thing looks just like our protagonist! Our dear fiends over at Shout! Factory have unleashed a demonic duo of frightful family features, and I’m about to lay my eerie eyeballs on both monstrous movies!įirst up comes Coraline, an impressive stop-motion adaptation from Henry Selick ( The Nightmare Before Christmas) based on the yarn from Sandman’s Neil Gaiman!Ĭoraline Jones has it rough she’s the new kid in town, and her parents do nothing but work their asses off ‘round the clock.
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