Selick's latest stop-motion vamp in the dark is Coraline, a spooky-but-kid-friendly fantasy Links of London on a Neil Gaiman book about a girl who discovers a "better" version of her family behind the walls of her new home, and has to decide which family to keep. We reached Selick in New York. Question: I have a 6-year-old. Should I take her to see Coraline? Answer: Depends on how brave she is. Q: She's an utter ninny. A: Haha! You just answered your own question. I make movies 'for brave children of all ages.' But a safer Links of London Dice Charm is maybe 8 years old and up. Q: You're an animator who's always been in touch with his dark side -- doing films based on Roald Dahl (James and the Giant Peach) and Neil Gaiman, now. Where does that passion for scaring children come from? A: I think it comes from my childhood. My mother's from the South, Alabama. I grew up in New Jersey, but every Links of London Butterfly Charm, I would spend six weeks in the Land of the Storytellers. These grisly, gruesome tales would be told by this one relative, Lib Driggers. She'd round me and all my cousins up and tell us about this hatchet murderer still at large, and just scare the daylights out of us. We loved it! Q: What are we seeing on the screen in Coraline? How much is 'real' and how much is digital? A: This is old-school. Ninety percent of Links of London Four Leaf Clover Charm you see on screen was made by hand. Every character that's brought to life -- the humans, rats, cats, that whole theater filled with Scottie dogs? We built that whole thing, theater, hundreds of dog models, because that's what we do. Q: Does the eye respond to that tactile image differently?
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