Coraline is a 2009 American stop-motion animated dark fantasy horror film written for the screen and directed by Henry Selick, based on the 2002 novella of the same name by Neil Gaiman. [5] Produced by Laika , as the studio's first feature film, [ 6 ] it features the voices of Dakota Fanning , Teri Hatcher , Jennifer Saunders , Dawn French ...