Casper (1995)
Seeing is believing.
Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat. Casper quickly falls in love with Kat, but their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.
In Casper, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “haunted manor afterlife”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing afterlife, grief, memory, family, sacrifice.
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.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Lake Mungo (2009)consciousness in the dead · haunted suburbia
The Others (2001)consciousness in the dead · haunted afterlife house
Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)consciousness in the dead · the Further
The Deep House (2021)consciousness in the dead · submerged haunted house
Just Like Heaven (2005)consciousness in the dead · afterlife apartment
When Marnie Was There (2014)consciousness in the dead · spirit-heritageSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · family, grief
Avengers: Endgame (2019)consciousness in aliens · family, sacrifice
Finding Dory (2016)consciousness in animals · family, memory
Hereditary (2018)consciousness in monsters · family, grief
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)consciousness in objects · family, sacrifice
Onward (2020)consciousness in monsters · family, grief
