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A Story of Derry (2026)

★ 6.8 · 32 ratings on TMDB
A Story of Derry poster★ 6.8

Hundreds of years before Pennywise, three youngsters venture into the Western Wood...where they encounter a terrifying ancient spirit.

DirectorTazbah Chavez
CastKiawentiio, Isabel DeRoy-Olson, Michael Podemski, Zahn McClarnon, MorningStar Angeline, Brandon Oakes
GenresDrama, Horror, Mystery
The emergence reading

In A Story of Derry, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “childhood social landscape”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, obsolescence, belonging, technology, peerpressure.

↷ toys and objectsUSidentityobsolescencebelongingtechnologypeerpressure
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story (2023)E8/E9 · belonging, identityToy Story That Time Forgot (2014)E8/E9 · identity, obsolescenceHerbie Fully Loaded (2005)E8/E9 · identity, obsolescenceHawaiian Vacation (2011)E8/E9 · identity, obsolescenceUglyDolls (2019)E8/E9 · belonging, identityThe Brave Little Toaster (1987)E8/E9 · belonging, obsolescence

Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

Toy Story 4 (2019)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf worldToy Story 2 (1999)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf worldToy Story 3 (2010)consciousness in objects · toy shelf worldToy Story (1995)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf worldThe Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)consciousness in objects · toy-brick multiverseToy Story 5 (2026)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf society

Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)consciousness in machines · belonging, identitySonic the Hedgehog (2020)consciousness in animals · belonging, identityChristine (1983)consciousness in machines · identity, obsolescencePAW Patrol: The Dino Movie (2026)consciousness in animals · belonging, identityLuca (2021)consciousness in monsters · belonging, identityMinions (2015)consciousness in monsters · belonging, identity

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Doctor Sleep (2019)Zahn McClarnonBraven (2018)Zahn McClarnonThe Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (2006)Zahn McClarnon