What you see does not exist. What you cannot see is truth.

An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are gathering in the city. All these events are caused by the return of Mater Lacrimarum, the last of three powerful witches who have been spreading terror and death for centuries. Alone against an army of psychos and demons, Sarah Mandy, an art student who seems to have supernatural abilities of her own, is the only person left to prevent the Mother of Te
In The Mother of Tears, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “occult Rome”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing witchcraft, religion, fear, power, madness.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Conjuring 2 (2016)consciousness in monsters · haunted‑possession house
The Conjuring (2013)consciousness in monsters · haunted farmhouse
The Nun (2018)consciousness in monsters · haunted monastery
Annabelle: Creation (2017)consciousness in monsters · cursed doll house
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)consciousness in monsters · demon‑infested train
Clash of the Titans (2010)consciousness in monsters · mythic Greek pantheonThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)consciousness in aliens · fear, power
Scooby-Doo (2002)consciousness in animals · fear, power
Gods of Egypt (2016)consciousness carried elsewhere · power, religion
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)consciousness in objects · fear, religion
The Golden Compass (2007)consciousness in animals · power, religion
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)consciousness in the dead · power, religion