Movie Substrate · Film
The Nun (2018)
★ 5.9 · 7,146 ratings on TMDB
Pray for forgiveness.
A priest with a dark past and a novice nearing her final vows are sent by the Vatican to Romania to investigate a nun's death and face a demonic force.
DirectorCorin Hardy
GenresHorror
The emergence reading
In The Nun, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “haunted monastery”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing fear, religion, faith, evil, possession.
↷ monsters and creaturesUSfearreligionfaithevilpossession
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.
Annabelle: Creation (2017)consciousness in monsters · cursed doll house
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)consciousness in monsters · possession horror
The Devil Inside (2012)consciousness in monsters · possession horror
The Wailing (2016)consciousness in monsters · demonic village plague
Prey for the Devil (2022)consciousness in monsters · demonic possession school
Prince of Darkness (1987)consciousness in monsters · possessed liquid horrorSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Amityville Horror (1979)consciousness in the dead · evil, faith
The Possession (2012)consciousness in the dead · faith, fear
The Devil Conspiracy (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · evil, faith
Annabelle (2014)consciousness in objects · faith, fear
Fallen (1998)consciousness carried elsewhere · evil, possession
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)consciousness in machines · fear, possession
