Some secrets are too big to keep.

For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales... until she meets Pete, a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete's descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham's stories. With the help of Natalie, an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack owns the local lumb
In Pete's Dragon, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “dragon forest”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, otherness, environment, family, fear.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Paranormal Activity 3 (2011)E8/E9 · family, fear
The Watchers (2024)E8/E9 · fear, otherness
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)E8/E9 · environment, family
The Hole in the Ground (2019)E8/E9 · family, fear
The Hallow (2015)E8/E9 · environment, family
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)E8/E9 · fear, othernessThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Mars Attacks! (1996)E12/E14 · rare rung · fear, otherness
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)E13/E14 · rare rung · fear, otherness
Them! (1954)E14 · rare rung · environment, fear
Men in Black (1997)E11/E13 · rare rung · otherness, prejudice
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)E12/E13 · rare rung · fear, othernessOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)consciousness in monsters · Whoville holiday town
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)consciousness in monsters · supernatural romance
Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)consciousness in monsters · monster hotel
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)consciousness in monsters · dragon sanctuary
When Evil Lurks (2023)consciousness in monsters · demonic-possession horror
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000)consciousness in monsters · mermaid kingdomThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Wolfman (2010)consciousness in animals · family, fear
Rio 2 (2014)consciousness in animals · environment, family
A Haunted House 2 (2014)consciousness in objects · family, fear
Fido (2006)consciousness in the dead · family, fear
Village of the Damned (1960)consciousness in aliens · fear, otherness
Stitch! The Movie (2003)consciousness in aliens · family, otherness