Hollow Man II (2006)
There's more to terror than meets the eye.
After the mysterious death of scientist Dr. Devin Villiers, Det. Frank Turner and his partner are assigned to protect Villiers' colleague, who revealed that a veteran soldier was subjected to an experiment with the objective of creating the ultimate national security weapon... an undetectable soldier. The experiment failed – with disastrous side effects.
Hollow Man II keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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.
World War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
28 Weeks Later (2007)E4/E12/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)E13/E14 · Horror, Science Fiction
Land of the Dead (2005)E11/E12 · Horror, Science Fiction
Tenet (2020)E0/E14 · Science Fiction, Thriller
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)E12/E14 · Science Fiction, ThrillerAlso 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.
2012 (2009)alters at E1 · same rung · loose
Bruce Almighty (2003)alters at E1 · same rung · loose
Monsters University (2013)alters at E1 · same rung · loose
The Prestige (2006)alters at E1 · same rung · loose
Monsters, Inc. (2001)alters at E1 · same rung · rigorous
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)alters at E1 · same rung · loose
