Movie Substrate · Film
Lord of Illusions (1995)
★ 6.0 · 375 ratings on TMDB
Prepare for the coming.
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
DirectorClive Barker
The emergence reading
Lord of Illusions keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0magicreality permits supernatural manipulation (magic works) (technology · local)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same 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.
Back to the Future (1985)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
The Matrix (1999)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Avengers: Endgame (2019)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
Doctor Strange (2016)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Interstellar (2014)alters at E0 · same rung · rigorous
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)alters at E0 · same rung · loose
