The Car (1977)
Is it a phantom, a demon, or the devil himself?
The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined to stop the murderous driver.
In The Car, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “possessed automobile”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fear, technology, revenge, mortality, horror.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Creepshow (1982)E8 · fear, horror
Replicas (2018)E8/E10 · mortality, technology
Hello World (2019)E8/E10 · mortality, technology
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004)E8/E10 · mortality, technology
Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022)E8/E10 · revenge, technology
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Revenge of Scar (2022)E8/E10 · mortality, technologySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · fear, mortality
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)E6/E12 · rare rung · fear, technology
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)E6/E11 · rare rung · mortality, technology
Them! (1954)E14 · rare rung · fear, technology
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)E12/E13 · rare rung · fear, technology
Spectral (2016)E11/E12 · rare rung · fear, technologyAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Blade Runner (1982)consciousness in machines · future corporate dystopia
Lucy (2014)consciousness in machines · brain machine singularity
Upgrade (2018)consciousness in machines · cybernetic augmentation
Bicentennial Man (1999)consciousness in machines · robotic humanity quest
Transcendence (2014)consciousness in machines · singularitarian digital realm
Willy's Wonderland (2021)consciousness in machines · haunted animatronic arcadeSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Morbius (2022)consciousness in monsters · fear, mortality
The Jack in the Box (2019)consciousness in objects · fear, horror
The Ring (2002)consciousness in the dead · fear, mortality
Child's Play 2 (1990)consciousness in objects · fear, mortality
The Boogeyman (2023)consciousness in monsters · fear, horror
The Fog (1980)consciousness in the dead · fear, mortality
