Movie Substrate · Film
Poltergeist (2015)
★ 5.2 · 2,381 ratings on TMDB
They know what scares you.
A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.
The emergence reading
In Poltergeist, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “haunted house”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing death, grief, fear, supernatural, family.
↷ the deadUSdeathgrieffearsupernaturalfamily
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 hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Poltergeist III (1988)consciousness in the dead · mirror-haunted highrise
White Noise (2005)consciousness in the dead · static-evp realm
Poltergeist (1982)consciousness in the dead · suburban haunting
Talk to Me (2023)consciousness in the dead · hand-possession ritual
The Woman in Black (2012)consciousness in the dead · haunted marsh estate
Lights Out (2016)consciousness in the dead · shadow hauntSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Annabelle (2014)consciousness in objects · family, fear
Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)consciousness in monsters · death, fear
A Monster Calls (2016)consciousness in monsters · death, family
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)consciousness in objects · family, fear
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)consciousness in animals · family, fear
Meet Joe Black (1998)consciousness in abstractions · death, family
