Mama (2013)
A mother's love is forever.
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
In Mama, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “ghostly maternal realm”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing grief, motherhood, family, loss.
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.
Talk to Me (2023)consciousness in the dead · hand-possession ritual
Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)consciousness in the dead · the Further
Casper (1995)consciousness in the dead · haunted manor afterlife
Lights Out (2016)consciousness in the dead · shadow haunt
Poltergeist (2015)consciousness in the dead · haunted house
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)consciousness in the dead · haunted house séanceSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Hereditary (2018)consciousness in monsters · family, grief
Onward (2020)consciousness in monsters · family, grief
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · family, grief
Annabelle (2014)consciousness in objects · family, grief
Song of the Sea (2014)consciousness in animals · family, grief
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)consciousness in animals · family, grief
