Young Frankenstein (1974)
The scariest comedy of all time!
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
In Young Frankenstein, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “reanimated monster comedy”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, science, identity, love, class.
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.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Vamps (2012)consciousness in the dead · vampire underground
Warm Bodies (2013)consciousness in the dead · zombie romance apocalypse
Sleepy Hollow (1999)consciousness in the dead · gothic colonial village
Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018)consciousness in the dead · zombie high school
Marry My Dead Body (2023)consciousness in the dead · ghost-marriage underworld
Corpse Bride (2005)consciousness in the dead · spirit underworldSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Shrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · class, identity
Shrek (2001)consciousness in monsters · class, identity
Barbie Fairytopia: Mermaidia (2006)consciousness carried elsewhere · class, identity
A Werewolf Boy (2012)consciousness in monsters · class, identity
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)consciousness in machines · class, identity
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · identity, love
