Mayhem goes viral.

As the streets of Los Angeles overflow with camera-wielding gawkers seeking to capture images of a bizarre police pursuit, the same people who sought to exploit the suffering of others for amusement on the Internet become the stars of a gruesome viral video from which no one gets out alive.
V/H/S: Viral keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing media, technology, fear, violence, contagion.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)E11/E14 · rare rung · technology, violence
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · fear, technology
Mars Attacks! (1996)E12/E14 · rare rung · fear, media
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)E6/E12 · rare rung · fear, technology
Them! (1954)E14 · rare rung · fear, technology
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)E12/E13 · rare rung · fear, technologyOther films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Virtuosity (1995)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
The Signal (2007)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Ghostbusters (1984)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Nope (2022)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Strange Days (1995)alters at E8 · same rung · loose