CORALINE
Written by
Henry Selick
Based on the novel by
Neil Gaiman
HEAD CREDIT SEQUENCE MYSTERIOUS SEWING ROOM - NIGHT,
A HAUNTING LULLABY plays against a black, star-pricked
sky when something appears in the distance. A BUTTON-EYED
DOLL floats towards CAMERA, through the open window of a
small sewing room where it lands in a pair of WAITING
HANDS, hands that are made of SEWING NEEDLES.
The doll - which resembles a YOUNG BLACK GIRL in old-
fashioned clothes, hair fixed with ribbons and braids -
is placed on a sewing table. An elaborate sewing kit is
opened, and, in flickering green light, the NEEDLE-HANDS
go to work. The doll's old clothes are cut away; button-
eyes torn off; hair pulled out. The doll's stuffing is
removed and then the empty cloth body is pulled inside
out, turning from NUT BROWN to PALE PINK.