Welcome to Blackwood. Where lost girls find their way.

Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.
In Down a Dark Hall, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “possession boarding school”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing possession, art, authority, identity.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Thor (2011)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
The Lion King (1994)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
The Breakfast Club (1985)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identity
Shrek Forever After (2010)E8/E9/E10 · authority, identityOther films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
The Pope's Exorcist (2023)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
The Golden Compass (2007)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Ghost in the Shell (1995)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Ghosts of Mars (2001)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Prey for the Devil (2022)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Hypnotic (2023)alters at E8 · same rung · looseOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Prodigy (2019)consciousness in the dead · possessed child horror
Idle Hands (1999)consciousness in the dead · possessed-hand horror
Spirited Away (2001)consciousness in the dead · spirit bathhouse
Young Frankenstein (1974)consciousness in the dead · reanimated monster comedy
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)consciousness in the dead · cursed art world
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)consciousness in the dead · cursed sorceryThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)consciousness in aliens · authority, identity
Brave (2012)consciousness in animals · authority, identity
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · authority, identity
The Little Mermaid (2023)consciousness in monsters · authority, identity
Monsters vs Aliens (2009)consciousness in monsters · authority, identity
Lilo & Stitch (2025)consciousness in aliens · authority, identity