Movie Substrate · Film
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
★ 7.1 · 348 ratings on TMDB
JEEPERS! The CREEPERS are after BUD & LOU!!
The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body.
DirectorCharles Barton
The emergence reading
In Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “monster mash comedy”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fear, monsters, comedy, horror, identity.
↷ monsters and creaturesUSfearmonsterscomedyhorroridentity
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.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985)consciousness in monsters · nightmare dreamscape
Blair Witch (2016)consciousness in monsters · cursed forestSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)consciousness in aliens · fear, identity
The Secret Life of Pets (2016)consciousness in animals · fear, identity
The Good Dinosaur (2015)consciousness in animals · fear, identity
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)consciousness in the dead · fear, horror
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