The New Trailer for 'Wildwood' Looks Like a Fusion of Two Fantasy Masterpieces

Laika’s latest stop motion film has shades of both Coraline and Labyrinth Portland, Oregon-based stop-motion animation studio Laika launched in 2009 with Coraline, Henry Selick’s highly acclaimed adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s dark fairy tale about a girl who discovers another world where a twisted doppelganger of her mother hopes to keep her forever. The new trailer for the studio’s latest film, Wildwood, shows a return to Laika's roots with an eerie story that combines aspects of Coraline and Jim Henson’s 1986 musical Labyrinth. Set to a hauntingly slow version of Avicii’s “Wake Me Up,” the trailer introduces Alexandra (Carey Mulligan), the mysterious ruler of an enchanted forest near Portland. Alexandra lost her own son and is so desperate that she sends a murder of crows to abduct an infant from a city playground. Prue McKeel (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) journeys into the dangerous woods with her classmate Curtis Mehlberg (Jacob Tremblay) to rescue her brother Mac, seeking help to face Alexandra and her wolf army. Labyrinth also followed a young girl journeying to a magical realm to rescue her infant brother after he was abducted by the Goblin King, though in that film she effectively s