Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
It's Four Years Later... What Does She Remember?
Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a research specialist free her from its grasp?
In Exorcist II: The Heretic, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “demonic possession”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing faith, fear, authority.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)E8/E10 · faith, fear
Season of the Witch (2011)E8/E10 · authority, faith
Deliver Us from Evil (2014)E8/E10 · authority, faith
Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)E8/E10 · authority, faith
DragonHeart: A New Beginning (2000)E8/E10 · authority, faith
The Batman vs. Dracula (2005)E8/E10 · authority, fearSame 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.
Forbidden Empire (2014)consciousness in monsters · cursed village
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)consciousness in monsters · possession horror
Prey for the Devil (2022)consciousness in monsters · demonic possession school
Troll Hunter (2010)consciousness in monsters · troll‑infested wilderness
Labyrinth (1986)consciousness in monsters · fantasy labyrinth
The Exorcism of God (2022)consciousness in monsters · demonic possessionSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)consciousness in aliens · authority, fear
The Iron Giant (1999)consciousness in machines · authority, fear
The Jack in the Box (2019)consciousness in objects · faith, fear
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2011)consciousness in animals · authority, faith
Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020)consciousness in aliens · authority, fear
Last Shift (2014)consciousness in the dead · authority, fear
