The Pagemaster (1994)
All the adventure your imagination can hold.
Rich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, like riding his bike, or climbing into his treehouse. While in an old library, he is mystically transported into the unknown world of books, and he has to try and get home again.
In The Pagemaster, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “literary adventure”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing imagination, fear, courage, literature.
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.
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)consciousness in objects · haunted toy world
The Lego Movie (2014)consciousness in objects · brick world
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · haunted house
Annabelle (2014)consciousness in objects · cursed doll horror
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)consciousness in objects · haunted artifact house
Child's Play (1988)consciousness in objects · possessed-toy horrorSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Goosebumps (2015)consciousness in monsters · fear, imagination
Mater and the Ghostlight (2006)consciousness in machines · fear, imagination
A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020)consciousness in monsters · fear, imagination
Sing (2016)consciousness in animals · fear
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)consciousness in aliens · fear
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)consciousness in animals · fear
