Movie Substrate · Film
Cooties (2014)
★ 5.9 · 808 ratings on TMDB
Please don't feed the children.
A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives.
The emergence reading
Cooties keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E4/E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6diseasea mutant virus that exclusively infects pre‑pubescent humans and makes them feral killers (biology · universal)
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.
Tenet (2020)E0/E14 · Action, Science Fiction
V for Vendetta (2006)E10/E12 · Action, Science Fiction
Men in Black (1997)E11/E13 · Action, Comedy
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)E11/E12 · Action, Comedy
The First Purge (2018)E10/E11 · Action, Horror
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)E11/E12/E14 · Action, Science FictionAlso 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.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Luca (2021)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Encanto (2021)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Blade Runner (1982)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorousSame people
Shared director or cast.
