Freaks of Nature (2015)
Get out undead or alive.
In the town of Dillford, humans, vampires and zombies were all living in peace - until the alien apocalypse arrived. Now three teenagers-one human, one vampire, and one zombie-have to team up to figure out how to get rid of the visitors.
In Freaks of Nature, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “segregated town”. The story fights on E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, class, hierarchy, alien.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Young Frankenstein (1974)consciousness in the dead · reanimated monster comedy
Sleepy Hollow (1999)consciousness in the dead · gothic colonial village
Warm Bodies (2013)consciousness in the dead · zombie romance apocalypse
ParaNorman (2012)consciousness in the dead · haunted New England town
Candyman (1992)consciousness in the dead · cursed housing legend
Candyman (2021)consciousness in the dead · cursed urban legendSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)consciousness in machines · class, prejudice
Shrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · class, prejudice
Flushed Away (2006)consciousness in animals · class, prejudice
Monsters vs Aliens (2009)consciousness in monsters · alien, prejudice
The Boxtrolls (2014)consciousness in monsters · class, prejudice
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 3 (2022)consciousness in aliens · alien, prejudice
