Movie Substrate · Film
It (2017)
★ 7.2 · 20,261 ratings on TMDB
You'll float too.
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
DirectorAndy Muschietti
The emergence reading
In It, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “cursed town”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fear, trauma, memory, childhood, evil.
↷ monsters and creaturesUSfeartraumamemorychildhoodevil
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.
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The Babadook (2014)consciousness in monsters · grief monsterSame 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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Ring 0 (2000)consciousness in the dead · fear, memory
Rise of the Guardians (2012)consciousness in abstractions · childhood, fear
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · fear, memory
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)consciousness in machines · childhood, fear
How to Train Your Dragon: Homecoming (2019)consciousness in animals · fear, memory
