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An American Haunting (2005)
★ 5.5 · 526 ratings on TMDB
Possession Knows No Bounds
An invisible entity haunts a 19th century family, and family secrets soon begin to surface. Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
DirectorCourtney Solomon
The emergence reading
In An American Haunting, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “haunted family”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing trauma, abuse, witchcraft, memory.
↷ the deadCAtraumaabusewitchcraftmemory
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Devil's Backbone (2001)consciousness in the dead · haunted orphanage
Shutter (2004)consciousness in the dead · haunted Bangkok
The Awakening (2011)consciousness in the dead · haunted boarding school
Polaroid (2019)consciousness in the dead · cursed camera
The Haunting (1999)consciousness in the dead · haunted manor
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)consciousness in the dead · urban legend horrorSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
It (2017)consciousness in monsters · memory, trauma
It Chapter Two (2019)consciousness in monsters · memory, trauma
Welcome to Marwen (2018)consciousness in objects · memory, trauma
Toy Story (1995)consciousness in objects · memory
Men in Black II (2002)consciousness in aliens · memory
Finding Dory (2016)consciousness in animals · memorySame people
Shared director or cast.
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014)Donald Sutherland
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)Donald Sutherland
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)Rachel Hurd-Wood
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)James D'Arcy