The Dead Zone (1983)
In his mind, he has the power to see the future. In his hands, he has the power to change it.
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
The Dead Zone keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 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.
World War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
28 Weeks Later (2007)E4/E12/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)E13/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
Land of the Dead (2005)E11/E12 · Horror, Science Fiction
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)E12/E14 · Science Fiction, Thriller
Tenet (2020)E0/E14 · Science Fiction, ThrillerAlso 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.
Inception (2010)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Avatar (2009)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Inside Out (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Assassin's Creed (2016)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Oblivion (2013)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
