Movie Substrate · Film
The Medium (2021)
★ 7.0 · 739 ratings on TMDB
A story about shamanism in Thailand.
A shaman's family learn that their goddess is supposedly controlling one of them. However, their lives take a frightening turn when they realise the goddess has nothing to do with the possession.
DirectorBanjong Pisanthanakun
The emergence reading
In The Medium, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “spirit‑possessed village”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing faith, family, grief, possession, tradition.
↷ the deadTHfaithfamilygriefpossessiontradition
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.
Talk to Me (2023)consciousness in the dead · hand-possession ritual
The Unborn (2009)consciousness in the dead · spirit-haunted home
The Possession (2012)consciousness in the dead · dybbuk box horror
Incarnate (2016)consciousness in the dead · possession dreamscape
Umma (2022)consciousness in the dead · haunted heritage farm
Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)consciousness in the dead · the FurtherSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Dark and the Wicked (2020)consciousness in monsters · faith, family
Annabelle (2014)consciousness in objects · faith, family
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2011)consciousness in animals · faith, family
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)consciousness in abstractions · faith, grief
The Deliverance (2024)consciousness in monsters · faith, family
The Christmas Chronicles (2018)consciousness carried elsewhere · faith, familySame people
Shared director or cast.
