The Faculty (1998)
These six students are about to discover their teachers really are from another planet.
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make the chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet!
In The Faculty, consciousness is carried by aliens — a plane of “high school alien invasion”. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, authority, identity, infection, adolescence.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9 · authority, identity
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)E8/E9 · authority, identity
The Breakfast Club (1985)E8/E9 · authority, identity
Shrek Forever After (2010)E8/E9 · authority, identity
The Angry Birds Movie (2016)E8/E9 · authority, identity
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)E8/E9 · authority, identitySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Blade II (2002)E4/E10 · rare rung · infection, prejudice
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, prejudice
Return to Oz (1985)E10/E13 · rare rung · authority, identity
X-Men: The Mutant Watch (2000)E11/E12 · rare rung · identity, prejudiceAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Lilo & Stitch (2025)consciousness in aliens · alien-ohana island
Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020)consciousness in aliens · alien-hero metropolis
Superman (2025)consciousness in aliens · alien hero geopolitics
Star Trek (2009)consciousness in aliens · interstellar federation
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)consciousness in aliens · heroic mythic conflict
Captain Marvel (2019)consciousness in aliens · interstellar warSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · authority, identity
Horton Hears a Who! (2008)consciousness in animals · authority, identity
Monsters vs Aliens (2009)consciousness in monsters · authority, identity
The Little Mermaid (2023)consciousness in monsters · authority, identity
Astro Boy (2009)consciousness in machines · authority, identity
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis (2015)consciousness carried elsewhere · authority, identity
