Movie Substrate · Film
Terrifier (2018)
★ 6.3 · 2,936 ratings on TMDB
You never forget your first kill.
A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women on Halloween night and everyone else who stands in his way.
DirectorDamien Leone
CastCatherine Corcoran, Cory DuVal, David Howard Thornton, Gino Cafarelli, Jenna Kanell, Katie Maguire
GenresHorror
The emergence reading
In Terrifier, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “supernatural slasher”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fear, violence, mortality, horror.
↷ monsters and creaturesUSfearviolencemortalityhorror
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.
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)consciousness in monsters · nightmare battleground
The Boogeyman (2023)consciousness in monsters · fear‑haunted house
Boogeyman 3 (2008)consciousness in monsters · nightmare dorm
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)consciousness in monsters · vampire nightclub
The Evil Dead (1981)consciousness in monsters · cabin horror forest
Evil Dead II (1987)consciousness in monsters · cabin demonic horrorSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Jack in the Box (2019)consciousness in objects · fear, horror
The Car (1977)consciousness in machines · fear, horror
The Ring (2002)consciousness in the dead · fear, mortality
Child's Play (1988)consciousness in objects · fear, violence
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)consciousness in the dead · fear, horror
Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (2023)consciousness in animals · horror, violenceSame people
Shared director or cast.
