Movie Substrate · Film
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
★ 4.1 · 1,168 ratings on TMDB
This time it's personal.
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
DirectorJoseph Sargent
The emergence reading
In Jaws: The Revenge, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “revenge shark”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing revenge, fear, grief, family, predator.
↷ monsters and creaturesUSrevengefeargrieffamilypredator
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
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A Monster Calls (2016)consciousness in monsters · tree-guardian
The Babadook (2014)consciousness in monsters · grief monsterSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Woman in Black (2012)consciousness in the dead · fear, grief
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · family, fear
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)consciousness in the dead · family, fear
Annabelle (2014)consciousness in objects · family, fear
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)consciousness in animals · family, fear
The Good Dinosaur (2015)consciousness in animals · family, fear
