Troll (2022)
Mountains will move.
When an explosion in the Norwegian mountains awakens an ancient troll, officials appoint a fearless paleontologist to stop it from wreaking deadly havoc.
In Troll, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “mythic monster threat”. The story fights on E8/E9/E12 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing myth, monster, culture, government, environment.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)E8/E12 · rare rung · culture, environment
Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)E9/E12 · rare rung · myth
Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)E8/E12 · rare rung · environment
Warcraft (2016)E12 · rare rung · culture
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)E8/E9/E12 · rare rung · culture
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)E8/E9/E12 · rare rung · cultureSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
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.
Pom Poko (1994)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Troll Hunter (2010)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? (2005)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)alters at E6 · same rung · loose
Downsizing (2017)alters at E6 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior (2008)consciousness in monsters · mythic creature world
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)consciousness in monsters · titanic ecosystem
Pokémon: Lucario and the Mystery of Mew (2005)consciousness in monsters · pokemon realm
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Scarlet Bond (2022)consciousness in monsters · monster kingdom
Godzilla (2014)consciousness in monsters · monster apocalypse
Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)consciousness in monsters · giant-kingdom clashSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)consciousness carried elsewhere · culture, environment
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)consciousness in animals · culture, environment
Prey (2022)consciousness in aliens · culture, myth
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)consciousness in the dead · culture, myth
Happy Feet (2006)consciousness in animals · culture, environment
The Legend of La Llorona (2011)consciousness in the dead · culture, myth
