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The Rite (2011)

★ 6.1 · 2,225 ratings on TMDB

You can only defeat it when you believe.

The Rite poster★ 6.1

Seminary student Michael Kovak reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.

DirectorMikael Håfström
CastAlice Braga, Andrea Calligari, Anthony Hopkins, Arianna Veronesi, Ciarán Hinds, Colin O'Donoghue
GenresDrama, Horror, Thriller
The emergence reading

In The Rite, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

↷ monsters and creaturesUS
Also inConsciousness hiding in monstersFilms that move consciousness off the human
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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