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Apr 22, 2017 · The Other Mother: Directed by Sean Olson. With Annie Wersching, Kennedy Tucker, Kimberley Crossman, Alexxis Lemire. A divorcee is surprised to learn that her ex-husband has suddenly remarried a much younger woman--and more shocked to discover her dark and treacherous past.
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The Other Mother (also known as Beldam) is the main antagonist of the 2009 stop-motion animation horror fantasy film Coraline, which in turn is based on Neil Gaiman's 2002 horror fantasy novel of the same name. She is considered to be one of the most disturbing villains in the animated/children's genre and is also ranked #9 for the 10 Worst Moms in...
The Other Mother is the tall, arachnid demonic ruler of the Other World, which is located behind a small door in the main living room of the Pink Palace, a Victorian-styled apartment in Ashland, Oregon. There is only one key to open the door and the key itself resembles a button. Her notable traits include her black, button eyes and her sharp needle-like fingers. The Other World is intially seen as wonderful paradise but the entirety of the universe is in fact a gigantic spiderweb.
She is presumably as old as the Pink Palace itself and according to Coraline's father, the Pink Palace is approximately 150 years old. In order to continue her demonic existence, the Other Mother steals the eyes and souls of human children and she consumes their flesh afterwards as nourishment. Her victims tend to be bored and neglected children who wish for a better life filled with fun and joy.
Despite her mysterious origins, the Other Mother possesses a great variety of skills and abilities and one of her best skills include manipulating her victims into trusting her and making them stay in the Other World with her.
Initially, as soon as a family with a child moves into the Pink Palace, the Other Mother sews a ragdoll with button eyes in her sewing room that resembles the child of the particular family and she later sends the doll into the real world by throwing it into a void outside the window of the sewing room.
After the unfortunate child picks up the ragdoll, the doll soon spies on every aspect of the child's life and this serves as the Other Mother's spy camera. Once she has an overall idea of the child's everyday life, she enhances the Other World with lively decorations and creating better duplicates of the people that live in the child's real world. In order for the child to trust and even love her, the Other Mother disguises herself as the ideal and often prettier and healthier version of the child's mother (hence her name).
At night, the Other Mother sends her loyal army of rats into the child's bedroom to wake them up and the rats soon lead the child to a small door in the living room downstairs, which is revealed to contain an enchanted and colourful tunnel to the Other World. The child is then blinded by the joy and happiness that the Other World offers to them so much that they don't sense anything evil about the Other Mother. After several nights visting the Other World, the Other Mother offers the child to stay in the Other World forever by allowing her to sew buttons over their eyes, which she claims that they would give the child endless happiness and joy. The child is often compliant to her offer and as soon as they accept it, the Other Mother gouges their eyes out and gruesomely sews the buttons over their eye sockets.
It is implied that as soon as their eyes are taken out, their souls are also taken out as well, which is why throughout the movie, the Other Mother refuses to release the real eyes of her previous victims. The Other Mother then delightfully consumes the child's flesh, presumably in her spiderweb as she is an arachnid being and like other arachnids, they prefer to eat their prey in their webs. Afterwards, the Other Mother imprisons the child's soul behind a magic mirror, where they suffer in misery and torment for eternity. The memories of their real family in the real world slowly fades during their spiritual imprisonment.
One of her first victims mentioned in the film include a boy, a tall girl and the long lost twin sister of the current landlord of the Pink Palace and they are also known as the Ghost Children. Ever since the unexplained disappearance of her twin sister, the landlord decided to not allow any families with young children in the Pink Palace as she feared that the Other Mother will continue her murderous rampage. However, it is unknown why she allowed the Joneses family to move into the apartment as they had one daughter named Coraline Jones. Throughout her stay in the Pink Palace, Coraline became bored of her busy parents and her lousy neighbours and she is especially annoyed by a moody, black cat and the grandson of the landlord, named Wybie Lovat. Like the previous victims, Coraline received a ragdoll with button eyes that resembled herself.
The Beldam, better known as the Other Mother (in reference to her motherly disguise), is the main antagonist of Neil Gaiman's 2002 dark fantasy young adult novel Coraline, which was adapted into the 2009 film of the same name. The Beldam is a powerful and malevolent witch/fey creature and the...
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The Beldam (also known as the Other Mother, in reference to her motherly disguise) is the main antagonist in the 2002 book Coraline, as well as the 2009 movie of the same name.
The other mother, also known as the beldam (which means witch), is the book's super creepy villain. From the very beginning, it's clear to both Coraline and the readers that there's something very, very off about this woman: She looked a little like Coraline's mother. Only [...]
May 19, 2021 · The nightmare-inducing Other Mother in Coraline is based on a 17th-century horror mainstay in Eastern Europe named the Beldam - literally meaning ugly, old witch.
