Movie Substrate · Film
Monster Hunter (2020)
★ 6.5 · 3,544 ratings on TMDB
Behind our world, there is another.
A portal transports Cpt. Artemis and an elite unit of soldiers to a strange world where powerful monsters rule with deadly ferocity. Faced with relentless danger, the team encounters a mysterious hunter who may be their only hope to find a way home.
DirectorPaul W. S. Anderson
The emergence reading
Monster Hunter keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E6 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceCN
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0portalspacetime permits stable interworld portals that connect Earth to a monster‑filled New World (physics · universal)
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.
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)E9/E10 · Action, Adventure
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · Action, Adventure
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)E11/E14 · Action, Adventure
Robin Hood (2018)E9/E10 · Action, Adventure
Reign of Fire (2002)E9/E14 · Action, Adventure
The Death and Return of Superman (2019)E9/E10 · Action, AdventureAlso 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.
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
