Spirited (2022)
Start your holidays on a high note.
Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.
In Spirited, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “afterlife bureaucracy”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing redemption, media, family, mortality, bureaucracy.
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.
Constantine (2005)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds (2017)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
Vivarium (2019)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The Thundermans Return (2024)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
The Hunger Games (2012)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Truman Show (1998)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorousAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Haunted Mansion (2003)consciousness in the dead · haunted manor
Beetlejuice (1988)consciousness in the dead · afterlife office
The Ring (2002)consciousness in the dead · cursed videotape horror
Insidious: The Red Door (2023)consciousness in the dead · afterlife realm
One Missed Call (2003)consciousness in the dead · cursed voicemail horror
Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2009)consciousness in the dead · afterlife officeSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)consciousness carried elsewhere · family, mortality
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)consciousness in animals · family, mortality
Tokyo! (2008)consciousness in monsters · bureaucracy, media
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)consciousness in monsters · family, mortality
Meet Joe Black (1998)consciousness in abstractions · family, mortality
Jack Frost (1998)consciousness in objects · family, redemption
