Screamers (1995)
The last scream you hear will be your own.
SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms.
In Screamers, consciousness is carried by machines — a plane of “war‑torn mining planet with sentient weapons”. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing technology, survival, war, deception, identity.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Transformers: Beginnings (2007)E8 · identity, technology
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)E8/E11 · survival, technology
Ghost in the Shell (2017)E8/E11 · identity, technology
Battleship (2012)E8/E11 · survival, technology
Alien Resurrection (1997)E8/E11 · identity, survival
TRON: Legacy (2010)E8/E11 · identity, technologySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)E7/E12 · rare rung · technology, war
The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar (2016)E7/E9 · rare rung · identity, survival
Godzilla vs. Hedorah (1971)E7/E10 · rare rung · survival, technology
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Space Battleship Yamato (2010)E13/E14 · rare rung · survival, technology
Priest (2011)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · survival, warAlso 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.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Oblivion (2013)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Cats & Dogs (2001)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Extinction (2018)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Sword Art Online the Movie - Progressive - Aria of a Starless Night (2021)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Her (2013)alters at E8 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Transformers (2007)consciousness in machines · mechanical war
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)consciousness in machines · mechanical alien war
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)consciousness in machines · machine war on Earth
Kicking and Screaming (1995)consciousness in machines · screamer‑infested wasteland
Pixels (2015)consciousness in machines · arcade invasion
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)consciousness in machines · transformer war cosmosSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)consciousness carried elsewhere · identity, survival
The Battleship Island (2017)consciousness in aliens · survival, technology
Underworld: Awakening (2012)consciousness in monsters · identity, survival
Scary Movie 4 (2006)consciousness in objects · survival, technology
Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007)consciousness in aliens · identity, survival
The Gruffalo (2009)consciousness in animals · deception, identitySame people
Shared director or cast.
