Scary Movie 2 (2001)
No more mercy. No more shame. No more sequels - honest! - We lied.
While the original parodied slasher flicks like Scream, Keenen Ivory Wayans's sequel to Scary Movie takes comedic aim at haunted house movies. A group of students visit a mansion called "Hell House," and murderous high jinks ensue.
In Scary Movie 2, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “haunted house parody”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing ghost, parody, sexuality, media, violence.
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.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)consciousness in the dead · afterlife call center
Ghostbusters (2016)consciousness in the dead · paranormal nyc
The Ring (2002)consciousness in the dead · cursed videotape horror
Winchester (2018)consciousness in the dead · haunted mansion
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)consciousness in the dead · spectral city
Sinister 2 (2015)consciousness in the dead · haunted farmhouseSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Virtuosity (1995)consciousness in machines · media, violence
Fritz the Cat (1972)consciousness in animals · sexuality, violence
Humanoids from the Deep (1980)consciousness in monsters · sexuality, violence
Siren (2016)consciousness in monsters · sexuality, violence
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)consciousness in aliens · violence
The Suicide Squad (2021)consciousness in aliens · violence
