Here they grow again.

Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
In Gremlins 2: The New Batch, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “corporate skyscraper chaos”. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing corporate, media, technology, consumerism.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Josie and the Pussycats (2001)E8/E11 · consumerism, corporate
Influencer (2023)E8 · consumerism, media
The Truman Show (1998)E8/E11 · consumerism, media
Ready Player One (2018)E8/E11 · consumerism, technology
Free Guy (2021)E8/E11 · corporate, technology
Ghost in the Shell (2017)E8/E11 · corporate, technologyThe same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
WALL·E (2008)E13/E14 · rare rung · consumerism, technology
The Stuff (1985)E14 · rare rung · consumerism, corporate
War, Inc. (2008)E12/E13 · rare rung · corporate, media
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)E9/E10 · corporate, media
Scary Movie (2026)E9/E10 · consumerism, media
American Dreamz (2006)E9/E10 · consumerism, mediaOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (1988)consciousness in monsters · killer tomato apocalypse
Monsters, Inc. (2001)consciousness in monsters · monster metropolis
Alien (1979)consciousness in monsters · isolated spacecraft horror
Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)consciousness in monsters · pokemon metropolis
Repossessed (1990)consciousness in monsters · televangelist exorcism spectacle
Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo (2006)consciousness in monsters · anime Tokyo adventureThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Small Soldiers (1998)consciousness in objects · consumerism, corporate
The Emoji Movie (2017)consciousness in machines · consumerism, media
Child's Play (2019)consciousness in machines · consumerism, corporate
Rampage (2018)consciousness in animals · corporate, technology
Scary Movie 3 (2003)consciousness in the dead · media, technology
Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)consciousness in animals · media, technology