From the dark side to our side.

In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before they summon a baby demon who is rescued by Allied forces and dubbed "Hellboy". Sixty years later, Hellboy serves the cause of good rather than evil as an agent in the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, along with Abe Sapien - a merman with psychic powers, and Liz Sherman - a woman with pyrokinesis, protecting America against dark forces.
In Hellboy, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “demon-hero saga”. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, otherness, power, war, faith.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Wolfwalkers (2020)E7/E9/E10 · rare rung · identity, power
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · power, war
Dogma (1999)E9/E10/E14 · rare rung · faith, power
The Odyssey (2026)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · identity, power
Mars Attacks! (1996)E12/E14 · rare rung · otherness, war
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)E13/E14 · rare rung · identity, othernessOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
BloodRayne (2005)consciousness in monsters · vampire‑ruled gothic realm
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)consciousness in monsters · magical war‑torn kingdom
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)consciousness in monsters · giant-kingdom clash
Blade (1998)consciousness in monsters · vampire underworld
KPop Demon Hunters (2025)consciousness in monsters · idol‑stage demon battleground
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)consciousness in monsters · demonic babysitter horrorThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)consciousness in aliens · faith, identity
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · identity, power
Transformers (2007)consciousness in machines · identity, power
Status Update (2018)consciousness in aliens · identity, otherness
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)consciousness in animals · faith, power
Legend (1985)consciousness in abstractions · faith, otherness