Stake Land (2010)
The Most Dangerous Thing Is To Be Alive.
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.
Stake Land keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E13 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing pandemic, survival, religion, militarism.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
The 5th Wave (2016)E8/E13 · rare rung · militarism, survival
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)E8/E13 · rare rung · religion, survival
The Blackout (2019)E8/E13 · rare rung · religion, survival
Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)E8/E13 · rare rung · militarism, survival
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)E13 · rare rung · religion, survival
The War of the Worlds (1953)E13 · rare rung · militarism, survivalSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also 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.
Zombie Apocalypse (2011)alters at E5 · same rung · loose
Dawn of the Dead (2004)alters at E5 · same rung · loose
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)alters at E5 · same rung · loose
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)alters at E5 · same rung · loose
Slither (2006)alters at E5 · same rung · loose
Cargo (2017)alters at E5 · same rung · loose
