Dark Water (2005)
Dark water conceals darker secrets.
Dahlia and her five-year-old daughter are ready to begin a new life together. But their new apartment — dilapidated and worn — suddenly seems to take on a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water and other strange happenings send Dahlia on a haunting and mystifying pursuit — one that unleashes a torrent of living nightmares.
In Dark Water, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “haunted apartment”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing grief, family, fear, neglect, mortality.
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 hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Lights Out (2016)consciousness in the dead · shadow haunt
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)consciousness in the dead · haunted house séance
Poltergeist (2015)consciousness in the dead · haunted house
Insidious: The Red Door (2023)consciousness in the dead · afterlife realm
Husk (2011)consciousness in the dead · cursed cornfield
32 Malasana Street (2020)consciousness in the dead · haunted houseSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Boogeyman (2023)consciousness in monsters · family, fear
Annabelle (2014)consciousness in objects · family, fear
Monster House (2006)consciousness in objects · family, fear
Jaws: The Revenge (1987)consciousness in monsters · family, fear
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)consciousness in animals · family, grief
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)consciousness in animals · family, mortality
