The Witches (1990)
Saving the world from witches is a tall order for a boy they've turned into a mouse!
While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical formula. When they discover the eavesdropper, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of Helga and hotel manager Mr Stringer, Luke the mouse must fight back against the witches.
The Witches keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
I Am Legend (2007)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Ghost in the Shell (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Beetlejuice (1988)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)alters at E6 · same rung · looseSame people
Shared director or cast.
