Wolfen (1981)
They can hear a cloud pass overhead, the rhythm of your blood. They can track you by yesterday's shadow. They can tear the scream from your throat.
A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.
In Wolfen, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “urban predator myth”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, class, development, nature, colonization.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
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.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Dead Man (1995)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Freaks of Nature (2015)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Mavka: The Forest Song (2023)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Metropolis (2001)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Luca (2021)alters at E6 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
King Kong (2005)consciousness in animals · giant ape tragedy
Shrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · fairy‑tale kingdom
Flushed Away (2006)consciousness in animals · sewer metropolis
Antz (1998)consciousness in animals · anthill metropolis
Paddington (2014)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic bear in London
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic feudal JapanSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)consciousness in machines · class, prejudice
Shrek (2001)consciousness in monsters · class, prejudice
Young Frankenstein (1974)consciousness in the dead · class, prejudice
Sleepy Hollow (1999)consciousness in the dead · class, prejudice
The Boxtrolls (2014)consciousness in monsters · class, prejudice
Barbie Fairytopia: Mermaidia (2006)consciousness carried elsewhere · class, prejudice
