Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (2005)
Go back before the beginning, to the place where evil was born.
Father Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to devote himself to history and archaeology as he struggles with his shattered faith.
In Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “colonial exorcism horror”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, faith, colonialism, evil, possession.
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.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)consciousness in monsters · possession horror
The Nun (2018)consciousness in monsters · haunted monastery
The Nun II (2023)consciousness in monsters · demonic horror
Deliver Us from Evil (2014)consciousness in monsters · demon‑possessed world
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)consciousness in monsters · demonic boarding house
The Devil Inside (2012)consciousness in monsters · possession horrorSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
King Kong (2005)consciousness in animals · colonialism, prejudice
Ghosts of Mars (2001)consciousness in aliens · colonialism, possession
The Possession (2012)consciousness in the dead · faith, possession
The Skeleton Key (2005)consciousness in the dead · possession, prejudice
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor (1985)consciousness in animals · colonialism, prejudice
The Devil Conspiracy (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · evil, faith
