Coraline: Why this creepy classic still has us button-eyed

Over fifteen years ago, a little blue-haired girl crawled through a secret door and Henry Selik took the story and turned it into one of the best pieces of cinema. Released in 2009, Coraline was marketed as a children’s film, but let’s be real, it’s the type of stuff from some twisted adult therapy session. With its incredible stop-motion animation, button-eyed doppelgängers, and a villain who’s basically a spider-mum from hell, this film has aged into a cult classic. As its sweet sixteen approaches, fans are still dissecting every frame (me being one of them). So let’s dive into the theories and why Coraline feels weirdly relevant in 2025.

Was 2016 the last great year of music?

It’s a sunny morning in 2016: Drake’s Hotline Bling is dominating charts, Frank Ocean has broken Twitter by dropping two projects in 48 hours, Kanye is meticulously editing an already released album and Rihanna is still releasing records, Fenty Beauty just a twinkle in her eye.