Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
Always bring protection.
Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to save mankind from the undead.
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing survival, friendship, militarism.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)E8/E9 · friendship, survival
Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)E8/E9 · militarism, survival
This Is the End (2013)E8/E9 · friendship, survival
Drifting Home (2022)E8/E9 · friendship, survival
Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992)E8/E9 · friendship, survival
The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists (1996)E8/E9 · friendship, survivalSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
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.
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
The War of the Worlds (1953)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
Them! (1954)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Attack on Titan (2015)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Day of the Dead: Bloodline (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
