A Chinese Ghost Story (1987)
Old Evil is coming to collect the bride.
A naïve young tax collector for the imperial government winds up spending the night in a haunted temple. There he falls in love with a beautiful woman who, unfortunately, is dead. With the aid of a powerful Daoist Swordsman, he must defeat undead hordes, overcome a sinister Tree Demoness, and descend to the pits of hell, to fight for the spirit he loves.
In A Chinese Ghost Story, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “spectral afterlife”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing love, mortality, faith.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Over Her Dead Body (2008)consciousness in the dead · afterlife purgatory
Corpse Bride (2005)consciousness in the dead · spirit underworld
Swiss Army Man (2016)consciousness in the dead · sentient corpse odyssey
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)consciousness in the dead · vampiric gothic romance
Always (1989)consciousness in the dead · spirit realm
Vamps (2012)consciousness in the dead · vampire undergroundSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
City of Angels (1998)consciousness carried elsewhere · faith, love
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)consciousness in monsters · love, mortality
Beowulf (2007)consciousness in monsters · faith, mortality
The Seventh Seal (1957)consciousness in abstractions · faith, mortality
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)consciousness carried elsewhere · faith, mortality
Legend (1985)consciousness in abstractions · faith, love
