Scary Movie 4 (2006)
Bury the grudge. Burn the village. See the saw.
Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out who killed him and why. Also, Alien "Tr-iPods" are invading the world and she has to uncover the secret in order to stop them.
In Scary Movie 4, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “parody horror‑comedy”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing media, war, technology, 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.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · technology, war
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · survival, technology
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012)E6/E11 · rare rung · survival, technology
Pacific Rim (2013)E11/E14 · rare rung · survival, technologyAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
9 (2009)consciousness in objects · rag‑doll post‑apocalypse
The Muppets (2011)consciousness in objects · puppet theater
The Great Muppet Caper (1981)consciousness in objects · puppet showworld
The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story (2023)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf world
LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation (2022)consciousness in objects · lego star wars vacation
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)consciousness in objects · wartime puppet ItalySame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Pixels (2015)consciousness in machines · survival, technology
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)consciousness in machines · survival, technology
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)consciousness in animals · survival, technology
Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks (1993)consciousness in aliens · survival, technology
The Battleship Island (2017)consciousness in aliens · survival, technology
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)consciousness in animals · survival, war
