Movie Substrate · Film
Leprechaun (1993)
★ 5.6 · 851 ratings on TMDB
Your luck just ran out.
A demonic leprechaun terrorizes a group of young people whom he believes stole his gold.
DirectorMark Jones
The emergence reading
In Leprechaun, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “mythic farm horror”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing greed, myth, horror, survival.
↷ monsters and creaturesUSgreedmythhorrorsurvival
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Leprechaun Returns (2018)consciousness in monsters · mythic horror
The Pyramid (2014)consciousness in monsters · cursed tomb
Blair Witch (2016)consciousness in monsters · cursed forest
Tumbbad (2018)consciousness in monsters · cursed treasure womb
Alien (1979)consciousness in monsters · isolated spacecraft horror
Army of the Dead (2021)consciousness in monsters · zombie heistSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Prey (2022)consciousness in aliens · myth, survival
Over the Hedge (2006)consciousness in animals · greed, survival
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)consciousness in animals · horror, survival
Ghost Ship (2002)consciousness in the dead · greed, survival
Bad Taste (1987)consciousness in aliens · horror, survival
Hatchet (2006)consciousness in the dead · myth, survival
