A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020)
Recruited by a secret society of babysitters, a high schooler battles the Boogeyman and his monsters when they nab the boy she's watching on Halloween.
In A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “monster babysitting world”. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing monster, fear, imagination, secret, childhood.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
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.
Return to Never Land (2002)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Ghostbusters (1984)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Nope (2022)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Smile (2022)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Insidious (2011)alters at E8 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
It (2017)consciousness in monsters · cursed town
Goosebumps (2015)consciousness in monsters · monster-manuscript world
Clown (2014)consciousness in monsters · cursed clown suit
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)consciousness in monsters · monster lagoon
The Beldham (2025)consciousness in monsters · postpartum nightmare
The Lost Boys (1987)consciousness in monsters · vampire suburbiaSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)consciousness in machines · childhood, fear
Rise of the Guardians (2012)consciousness in abstractions · childhood, fear
Child's Play (1988)consciousness in objects · childhood, fear
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)consciousness in objects · fear, imagination
Roald Dahl's The Witches (2020)consciousness in animals · childhood, fear
Mater and the Ghostlight (2006)consciousness in machines · fear, imaginationSame people
Shared director or cast.
