Coraline

Henry Selick adapts Neil Gaiman about a girl who moves to a dull new house and discovers a small door to a parallel version of her life. In the Other world her parents are attentive, the food is good, and everything is brighter. The catch is the buttons sewn over everyone's eyes and what the Other Mother wants in return. It works as a children's film and as a genuinely frightening one. The stop-motion is from LAIKA, every set and puppet physically built, which gives the whole thing a weight that computer animation rarely matches.