Seventh Son (2014)
When darkness falls, the son will rise.
John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to become the spook that so many others couldn't?
Seventh Son keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, authority, magic, tradition, fear.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
47 Ronin (2013)E8/E9/E10 · authority, magic
Strange Magic (2015)E8/E9/E10 · authority, magic
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)E8/E10 · authority, fear
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9/E10 · authority, prejudice
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)E8/E9/E10 · authority, prejudice
Cinderella (1950)E8/E9/E10 · magic, prejudiceSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, fear
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, fear
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, prejudiceAlso 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.
Red Riding Hood (2011)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Practical Magic (1998)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
The Batman vs. Dracula (2005)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
The Wolf Man (1941)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Village of the Damned (1960)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Encanto (2021)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
