Dead & Buried (1981)
It will take your breath away. All of it.
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
In Dead & Buried, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “reanimated town”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing death, control, art.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
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.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Ghost in the Shell (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Beetlejuice (1988)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Frankenweenie (2012)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Allegiant (2016)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Talk to Me (2023)alters at E6 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Baghead (2023)consciousness in the dead · cursed-pub spirit
Coco (2017)consciousness in the dead · afterlife of memory
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)consciousness in the dead · the further
Poltergeist (1982)consciousness in the dead · suburban haunting
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)consciousness in the dead · undead epidemic
ParaNorman (2012)consciousness in the dead · haunted New England townSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Duck Amuck (1953)consciousness in animals · art, control
Ex Machina (2015)consciousness in machines · control
The Lego Movie (2014)consciousness in objects · control
Nanny McPhee (2005)consciousness in monsters · control
The Host (2013)consciousness in aliens · control
They Live (1988)consciousness in aliens · controlSame people
Shared director or cast.
