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Vamps (2012)

★ 5.3 · 304 ratings on TMDB

Nice girls suck.

Vamps poster★ 5.3

The modern-day story focuses on two beautiful young vampires who are living the good nightlife in New York until love enters the picture and each has to make a choice that will jeopardize their immortality.

DirectorAmy Heckerling
CastAlicia Silverstone, Dan Stevens, Justin Kirk, Kristen Johnston, Krysten Ritter, Malcolm McDowell
GenresComedy, Horror, Romance
The emergence reading

In Vamps, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “vampire underground”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, age, mortality, identity, love.

↷ the deadUSprejudiceagemortalityidentitylove
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E6immortalityvampires are biologically immortal and only age if their maker is killed, otherwise they do not age (biology · local)
Also inConsciousness hiding in the deadFilms about mortalityFilms about loveFilms about prejudice
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Shrek Forever After (2010)E8/E9/E10 · identity, lovePorco Rosso (1992)E8/E9/E10 · identity, loveElla Enchanted (2004)E8/E9/E10 · identity, loveThe Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)E8/E9/E10 · identity, loveHedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)E8/E9/E10 · identity, loveThe Sorcerer and the White Snake (2011)E8/E9/E10 · identity, love

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)E11/E12 · rare rung · identity, prejudice

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.

Blade (1998)alters at E6 · same rung · looseBicentennial Man (1999)alters at E6 · same rung · loosePride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)alters at E6 · same rung · looseSplash (1984)alters at E6 · same rung · looseJack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (2014)alters at E6 · same rung · rigorousThumbelina (1994)alters at E6 · same rung · loose

Also hides consciousness here

Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.

Young Frankenstein (1974)consciousness in the dead · reanimated monster comedyEvery Day (2018)consciousness in the dead · body‑hopping spirit worldWarm Bodies (2013)consciousness in the dead · zombie romance apocalypseZ-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018)consciousness in the dead · zombie high schoolMarry My Dead Body (2023)consciousness in the dead · ghost-marriage underworldCorpse Bride (2005)consciousness in the dead · spirit underworld

Same subject, different mask

The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.

Shrek 2 (2004)consciousness in animals · identity, loveThe Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · identity, loveThe Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)consciousness in monsters · identity, loveElemental (2023)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, loveThe Little Mermaid (2023)consciousness in monsters · identity, loveSecret of the Wings (2012)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, love

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Clueless (1995)dir. Amy HeckerlingLook Who's Talking Too (1990)dir. Amy HeckerlingFast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)dir. Amy HeckerlingHappily N'Ever After (2007)Sigourney WeaverAvatar (2009)Sigourney WeaverWALL·E (2008)Sigourney Weaver