A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)
The man of your dreams is back.
A teenage boy is haunted in his dreams by deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger, who is out to possess him in order to continue his reign of terror in the real world.
In A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “nightmare dreamscape”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, identity, fear, sexuality, dreams.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Last Warrior: Emissary of Darkness (2021)E8/E9 · fear, identity
Frozen (2013)E8/E9 · fear, identity
It Chapter Two (2019)E8/E9 · fear, prejudice
Monsters University (2013)E8/E9 · fear, identity
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)E8/E9 · identity, prejudice
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)E8/E9 · fear, prejudiceSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Luca (2021)consciousness in monsters · monster seaside town
The Watchers (2024)consciousness in monsters · fairy forest bunker
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)consciousness in monsters · gothic vampire myth
Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School (1988)consciousness in monsters · monster school
Tokyo Ghoul (2017)consciousness in monsters · ghoul underworld
Bordello of Blood (1996)consciousness in monsters · vampire brothelSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)consciousness in animals · fear, identity
Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)consciousness in animals · fear, identity
Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020)consciousness in aliens · fear, identity
Jojo Rabbit (2019)consciousness in abstractions · identity, prejudice
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)consciousness in aliens · fear, identity
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · identity, prejudice
