Little Nicky (2000)
If your father was the Devil and your mother was an angel, you'd be messed up too.
After the lord of darkness decides he will not cede his throne to any of his three sons, the two most powerful of them escape to Earth to create a kingdom for themselves. This action closes the portal filtering sinful souls to Hell and causes Satan to wither away. He must send his most weak but beloved son, Little Nicky, to Earth to return his brothers to Hell.
In Little Nicky, consciousness is carried by monsters and creatures — a plane of “hellish family drama”. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, family, religion, authority, redemption.
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.
Ultraviolet (2006)E4/E11 · rare rung · authority, power
Ooops! Noah Is Gone... (2015)E6/E9 · rare rung · authority, family
Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)E11/E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Warcraft (2016)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010)E11/E13 · rare rung · authority, power
Dune (1984)E11/E12 · rare rung · power, religionAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Clash of the Titans (2010)consciousness in monsters · mythic Greek pantheon
Constantine: City of Demons - The Movie (2018)consciousness in monsters · hellish-earth
Son of the Mask (2005)consciousness in monsters · mythic god suburbia
Eli (2019)consciousness in monsters · demonic medical horror
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)consciousness in monsters · cursed high seas
Labyrinth (1986)consciousness in monsters · fantasy labyrinthSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Lion King (1994)consciousness in animals · authority, family
The Lion King (2019)consciousness in animals · authority, family
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)consciousness in objects · authority, family
Leroy & Stitch (2006)consciousness in aliens · authority, family
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)consciousness in aliens · family, power
Gabriel (2007)consciousness carried elsewhere · power, redemption
