Movie Substrate · Film
Ghostbusters II (1989)
★ 6.6 · 4,822 ratings on TMDB
Guess who's coming to save the world again?
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.
DirectorIvan Reitman
The emergence reading
In Ghostbusters II, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “ghostly city”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing emotion, spirit, law, community.
↷ the deadUSemotionspiritlawcommunity
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8emotionnegative emotions generate a tangible, expanding slime that can physically harm the world, while positive emotions dissolve it (cognition · universal)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
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.
Inside Out (2015)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
The Giver (2014)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Bee Movie (2007)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Equilibrium (2002)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Inside Out 2 (2024)alters at E8 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Nefarious (2023)consciousness in the dead · prison possession
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (2012)consciousness in the dead · vampire society
Host (2020)consciousness in the dead · zoom séance
The Possession (2012)consciousness in the dead · dybbuk box horror
Haunted Mansion (2023)consciousness in the dead · spectral manor
Ju-on: The Curse (2000)consciousness in the dead · cursed houseSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Beethoven's 5th (2003)consciousness in animals · community, law
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)consciousness in animals · community, law
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · community
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)consciousness carried elsewhere · community
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)consciousness in objects · community
Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022)consciousness in monsters · law
