Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
It'll send a chill down your spine.
When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.
In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, consciousness is carried by the dead — a plane of “spectral city”. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing ghost, fear, authority, ritual, power.
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.
Seoul Station (2016)E4/E9/E10 · rare rung · authority, fear
Dogma (1999)E9/E10/E14 · rare rung · authority, power
Damsel (2024)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · authority, power
The Odyssey (2026)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · authority, power
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, fear
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)E6/E12 · rare rung · fear, powerAlso 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.
Monsters (2010)alters at E7 · same rung · loose
Cold Skin (2017)alters at E7 · same rung · loose
Mortal Engines (2018)alters at E7 · same rung · loose
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)alters at E7 · same rung · rigorous
The Birds (1963)alters at E7 · same rung · loose
The Silence (2019)alters at E7 · same rung · looseAlso hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Ghostbusters (1984)consciousness in the dead · paranormal city
Ghostbusters (2016)consciousness in the dead · paranormal nyc
The Devil's Backbone (2001)consciousness in the dead · haunted orphanage
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)consciousness in the dead · cursed sorcery
The Turning (2020)consciousness in the dead · haunted manor
Last Shift (2014)consciousness in the dead · haunted police stationSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The BFG (2016)consciousness in animals · authority, fear
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)consciousness in aliens · authority, fear
Labyrinth (1986)consciousness in monsters · authority, fear
Superman: Man of Tomorrow (2020)consciousness in aliens · authority, fear
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)consciousness in monsters · fear, power
RoboCop (2014)consciousness in machines · authority, power
