Dream House (2011)
Once upon a time, there were two little girls who lived in a house.
Publisher Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby, and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a horrifying chain of events.
In Dream House, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “haunted domestic thriller”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing grief, memory, justice.
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.
Gothika (2003)consciousness in the dead · ghost asylum
Just Like Heaven (2005)consciousness in the dead · afterlife apartment
The Changeling (1980)consciousness in the dead · haunted mansion
We Have a Ghost (2023)consciousness in the dead · haunted house afterlife
After Life (1999)consciousness in the dead · afterlife memory clinic
The Sixth Sense (1999)consciousness in the dead · spectral afterlifeSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Flash (2023)consciousness in aliens · grief, justice
Serenity (2019)consciousness in machines · grief, memory
After Yang (2022)consciousness in machines · grief, memory
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · grief, memory
The Babadook (2014)consciousness in monsters · grief, memory
Solaris (1972)consciousness in aliens · grief, memory
