Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
The Maze Was Just the Beginning.
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing virus, control, rebellion, survival, authority.
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.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E9/E14 · rare rung · authority, survival
WarGames (1983)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, control
Ooops! Noah Is Gone... (2015)E6/E9 · rare rung · authority, survival
Colony (2026)E9/E10 · authority, control
Snowpiercer (2013)E9/E10 · rebellion, survival
The Village (2004)E9/E10 · authority, controlAlso 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.
Priest (2011)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorous
DragonHeart (1996)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
The Dead Don't Die (2019)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Promare (2019)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Paradise Hills (2019)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Seoul Station (2016)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
