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The Night House (2021)

★ 6.6 · 1,308 ratings on TMDB

The truth will surface.

The Night House poster★ 6.6

Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.

DirectorDavid Bruckner
CastCatherine Weidner, Christina Jackson, Crystal Swann, David Abeles, Evan Jonigkeit, Patrick Klein
GenresHorror, Mystery
The emergence reading

In The Night House, consciousness is carried by abstract concepts. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Also inConsciousness hiding in abstractionsFilms 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

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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