Jacob's Ladder

holy fuck

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the few scares it had are some of my favorites

really needed the deleted scene at the end back

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here's the scene im talking about

Silent hill kino

I loved it but isn't too much of a derailment?

>The homeless-looking guy in the train with a deformed tentacle.

Jacob's Ladder is a perfect example of quick scares that don't feel cheap, a lot of horror films ruin scary moments by adding a loud screech to make the audience jump. Best "jump" scares are made with silence or ambient noise.

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A true belter of a film and apparently relatively forgotten now, overlooked anyway. One of the best eschatological films ever made. For God knows what reason the director only ever made films about women having affairs, must be a cuckold.

If only you could sage a life. This film hasn't been shown on TV in nearly 20 years, it isn't discussed very often here at all and you never see it mentioned elsewhere, there's no reason why a person under 30 would have seen it without finding it on a list.

Myself, I loved it. The best definition is from this user >One of the best eschatological films ever made.
And the fact that you see an actual Angel with the Sword in the iconic pose and you don't realize it.

There's a good handful of "missing" scenes, some that nobody can seem to find, some hinted at in trailers and TV spots. I wish it got a full release with everything left in. All the deleted and missing scenes.

Where the hell do I watch this? It's never on TV and not on any streaming services that I'm aware of.

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Tried to make webms but apparently I just suck so here's a couple screencaps of 2 of the aforementioned missing scenes, only teased in trailers. There's still more I can't find.

Really bummed this love scene wasn't included (again, only hinted at in a trailer, can't find the full scene). Elizabeth Pena was smokin'.

>Elizabeth Pena was smokin'.
Meagre tits, though

She made up for them with overall sexual allure.

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Aye, can't argue that.

One thing I'm still unsure about in this movie is the whole army experiment red herring. Why would Jacob's mind concoct such a bizarre narrative kind out of nowhere? What's the precedent for it? It seems a little ill-fitting since it takes up so much of the movie, never sat well with me.

I'm still hazy on all the theories behind Jacob's Ladder, but I saw this as 1. Jacob trying to make sense of everything before passing into the afterlife, and 2. some of his army friends could have been experiencing the same thing. Like, his spirit was crossing paths with the spirits of his friends as he died, while many other people were just figments of his memories.

I've always interpreted it as Jacob's dying dream, his mind coming to terms with his life via this weird situation it creates, coming to terms with his wife and kid, like Louie says, if you're clinging onto things, you'll see demons tearing your life away - weird monsters in the subway you're so familiar with, people turning into creatures and stuff in your normal world - but if you make peace with your life and decisions, the demons are really angels, helping you come to terms. But the military stuff is so strongly pushed. If it was PTSD flashbacks, his mind coming to terms with stuff he saw or did, then it'd make sense, but the secret experiments thing was so weird to me. I suppose it could still be that, trying to come to terms with the idea of people doing awful things in war?

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Yeah I get that. The military experiments and conspiracy stuff, really not sure. It definitely adds to the disorienting feel of the whole movie, but within the narrative of Jacob dying and coming to terms with his life via flashbacks/dreams/scary visions, it almost doesn't work for me. Almost. I love the movie too much to just be like "eh, that whole thing was dumb, they shouldn't have done that." It just makes me want to dig deeper.