Host (2020)
Someone new has joined the meeting.
Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown — but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realise they might not survive the night.
In Host, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “zoom séance”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, spirit, fear, isolation, mortality.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · fear, mortality
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)E6/E12 · rare rung · fear, technology
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah (1995)E6/E11 · rare rung · mortality, technology
Them! (1954)E14 · rare rung · fear, technology
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)E12/E13 · rare rung · fear, technology
Spectral (2016)E11/E12 · rare rung · fear, technologyAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
The Ring (2002)consciousness in the dead · cursed videotape horror
Don't Follow Me (2025)consciousness in the dead · viral haunting
The Legend of Hell House (1973)consciousness in the dead · haunted house afterlife
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)consciousness in the dead · spectral invasion
Scary Movie 3 (2003)consciousness in the dead · cursed-tape horror parody
A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child (1989)consciousness in the dead · dreamscape horrorSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Morbius (2022)consciousness in monsters · fear, mortality
Child's Play 2 (1990)consciousness in objects · fear, mortality
The Car (1977)consciousness in machines · fear, mortality
30 Days of Night (2007)consciousness in monsters · fear, isolation
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)consciousness in machines · fear, technology
Critters (1986)consciousness in aliens · fear, technologySame people
Shared director or cast.
