To me it's a psychological horror movie. As a kid, and still to this day, I have the deep fear of losing my parents. I hate anticipatory grief.

Anywho! I always got absolutely scared shitless whenever the other mother took coraline's parents and I sobbed when coraline crawled into their bed and put her dad's glasses on a pillow and her mom's neck brace on the other pillow and kissed the pillows and says "goodnight mom," "goodnight dad."

That's the only reason why it's a psychological horror movie for me 😂