Movie Substrate · Film
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
★ 6.8 · 336 ratings on TMDB
The creature created by man and forgotten by nature!
Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.
DirectorTerence Fisher
The emergence reading
The Curse of Frankenstein keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceGB
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6mortalitydead tissue can be reanimated, effectively reversing death (biology · personal)
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.
World War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
Blade: Trinity (2004)E4/E6 · Horror, Science Fiction
28 Weeks Later (2007)E4/E12/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)E13/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
Species (1995)E4/E11/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
Land of the Dead (2005)E11/E12 · Horror, Science FictionAlso 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.
Beetlejuice (1988)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Encanto (2021)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Train to Busan (2016)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorousSame people
Shared director or cast.
