Rise of the Guardians (2012)
You better believe.
When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs and imagination of children all over the world.
In Rise of the Guardians, consciousness is carried by abstract concepts — a plane of “mythic guardians”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing belief, myth, childhood, fear.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
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.
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Candyman (2021)alters at E9 · same rung · rigorous
The Final Girls (2015)alters at E9 · same rung · loose
Left Behind (2014)alters at E9 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Jojo Rabbit (2019)consciousness in abstractions · imagined-hate friend
Shazam! (2019)consciousness in abstractions · sin-embodied realm
Inside Out 2 (2024)consciousness in abstractions · personified mindscape
The Seventh Seal (1957)consciousness in abstractions · medieval mortality stage
Pleasantville (1998)consciousness in abstractions · tv sitcom world
The Shack (2017)consciousness in abstractions · spiritual retreatSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Blair Witch (2016)consciousness in monsters · belief, fear
Darkness Falls (2003)consciousness in the dead · belief, fear
It (2017)consciousness in monsters · childhood, fear
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)consciousness in machines · childhood, fear
Over the Moon (2020)consciousness carried elsewhere · belief, myth
Hatchet (2006)consciousness in the dead · fear, myth
