Shocker (1989)
No More Mr. Nice Guy
About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete Jonathan Parker, with an uncanny connection to him through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful demon.
In Shocker, consciousness is carried by another substrate — a plane of “electric horror”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, fear, revenge, power, death.
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.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · power, technology
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · power, technology
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)E6/E12 · rare rung · fear, power
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)E11/E14 · rare rung · power, technology
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · fear, technology
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)E6/E11 · rare rung · power, technologyAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Aladdin (1992)consciousness carried elsewhere · Arabian fantasy kingdom
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)consciousness carried elsewhere · hellish-curse world
Gods of Egypt (2016)consciousness carried elsewhere · mythic Egypt
Partly Cloudy (2009)consciousness carried elsewhere · cloud workshop
Disenchanted (2022)consciousness carried elsewhere · fairy‑tale suburbia
Hercules in New York (1970)consciousness carried elsewhere · god in metropolisSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)consciousness in monsters · death, fear
Darkness Falls (2003)consciousness in the dead · death, fear
FearDotCom (2002)consciousness in the dead · death, fear
V/H/S/94 (2021)consciousness in machines · fear, power
Straight Outta Nowhere: Scooby-Doo! Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog (2021)consciousness in animals · fear, power
The Wraith (1986)consciousness in machines · death, power
