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The Conjuring 2 (2016)
★ 7.3 · 9,131 ratings on TMDB
The next true story from the case files of Ed and Lorraine Warren.
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
DirectorJames Wan
CastBenjamin Haigh, Bonnie Aarons, Frances O'Connor, Lauren Esposito, Madison Wolfe, Patrick McAuley
GenresHorror
The emergence reading
In The Conjuring 2, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “haunted‑possession house”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing faith, possession, fear, supernatural, religion.
↷ monsters and creaturesUSfaithpossessionfearsupernaturalreligion
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Annabelle: Creation (2017)consciousness in monsters · cursed doll house
Prey for the Devil (2022)consciousness in monsters · demonic possession school
The Wailing (2016)consciousness in monsters · demonic village plague
The Nun II (2023)consciousness in monsters · demonic horror
The Deliverance (2024)consciousness in monsters · haunted home
The Exorcism (2024)consciousness in monsters · possession horror setSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Grudge (2019)consciousness in the dead · fear, possession
The Possession (2012)consciousness in the dead · faith, fear
Annabelle (2014)consciousness in objects · faith, fear
Fallen (1998)consciousness carried elsewhere · possession, religion
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)consciousness in machines · fear, possession
Brahms: The Boy II (2020)consciousness in objects · fear, possession
