AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Whoever wins...we lose.
When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator race.
In AVP: Alien vs. Predator, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “alien hunting arena”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing predation, ritual, survival.
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.
Critters 2 (1988)consciousness in aliens · alien invasion horror
Predator (1987)consciousness in aliens · jungle hunt
Predators (2010)consciousness in aliens · alien hunting preserve
Predator 2 (1990)consciousness in aliens · urban hunting ground
Species (1995)consciousness in aliens · alien hybrid chase
Prey (2022)consciousness in aliens · frontier hunting with alien predatorSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
30 Days of Night (2007)consciousness in monsters · predation, survival
Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (2022)consciousness in monsters · ritual, survival
Burnt Offerings (1976)consciousness carried elsewhere · predation, survival
Deep Blue Sea (1999)consciousness in animals · predation, survival
Bambi: A Tale of Life in the Woods (2024)consciousness in animals · predation, survival
Scary Movie 4 (2006)consciousness in objects · survival
