‘’Coraline’’

The gothic element in Romanticism – A horror story

I recently watched an animated film on ‘’Coraline’’. The plot of the film unfolds in a mysterious house. The protagonist is an 11-years-oid girl, Coraline.

In this film there were several elements of horror and one of them (perhaps the most intense) was when the ‘’other mom’’ wanted to stitch Coraline’s eyes with buttons and take her soul.

She and her parents are moving into a new house. There things for Coraline do not go so well because on the one hand she misses her friends and on the other her parents are absorbed by their work and ignore her. The only friend Coraline gets there is a weird boy.

Exploring her new home finds a secret door that should not be opened, but Coraline cannot resist her curiosity and opens it up, by finding herself is another world but the same as hers. But this ‘’other world’’ hides a lot of dangers. Looks the same as the real one.

Suddenly, however, things get ugly and the ‘’other parents’’ try to keep her from their side forever, but Coraline has to find the strength and change the things that are going on. To make it, she puts her life in great danger. It’s a world of live toys, dolls and mice, stolen souls and many other mysteries where this little girl will have to fight with all her strength to save her real parents and her own soul.