The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
The demonic case that shocked America.
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.
In The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “possession horror”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing possession, faith, law, evil, fear.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (1995)E8 · evil, faith
Amityville 3-D (1983)E8 · evil, fear
The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)E8/E9/E10 · faith, fear
The Exorcism of God (2022)E8/E9/E10 · faith, possession
Forbidden Empire (2014)E8/E9/E10 · faith, fear
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)E8/E9/E10 · evil, faithSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also 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.
The Pope's Exorcist (2023)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Insidious (2011)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
When Evil Lurks (2023)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Prey for the Devil (2022)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Incantation (2022)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
The Hidden (1987)alters at E8 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Nun (2018)consciousness in monsters · haunted monastery
Annabelle: Creation (2017)consciousness in monsters · cursed doll house
The Wailing (2016)consciousness in monsters · demonic village plague
Deliver Us from Evil (2014)consciousness in monsters · demon‑possessed world
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist (2005)consciousness in monsters · colonial exorcism horror
The Devil Inside (2012)consciousness in monsters · possession horrorSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Possession (2012)consciousness in the dead · faith, fear
The Amityville Horror (1979)consciousness in the dead · evil, faith
Annabelle (2014)consciousness in objects · faith, fear
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022)consciousness in animals · fear, law
The Devil Conspiracy (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · evil, faith
The Jack in the Box (2019)consciousness in objects · faith, fear
