When everyone is connected no one is safe.

When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.
Cell keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E14 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, communication, pandemic, survival, isolation.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Terminator Genisys (2015)E8/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
War of the Worlds (2005)E8/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
I, Robot (2004)E8/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Alien: Covenant (2017)E8/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)E8/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Life (2017)E8/E14 · rare rung · isolation, survivalThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · survival, technology
Outlander (2008)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · survival, technology
Godzilla 2000: Millennium (1999)E6/E13 · rare rung · survival, technology
Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)E6/E11 · rare rung · survival, technology
Free Birds (2013)E6/E9 · rare rung · survival, technology
Species III (2005)E6/E10 · rare rung · survival, technologyOther films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Oblivion (2013)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Terminator Salvation (2009)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Extinction (2018)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Atlas (2024)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Willy's Wonderland (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Awake (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose