Jacob’s Ladder
For over 35 years, Adrian Lyne's psychological horror masterpiece has appeared on top of, or near the top of, many scary movie aficionados’ lists of most chilling films of all time; praise indeed for a relatively low budget PTSD study of a man racked by nightmarish hallucinations post-tour of Vietnam. Tim Robbins dependably excels as the tortured vet, haunted by some of the most effective & bone chilling visions, visuals & lucid dreams ever committed to celluloid, and for Lyne to follow up his immense success of Fatal Attraction with this surreal, challenging work still beggars belief even today - how the studios signed off, we may never know! But it remains today as a peerless study of death, trauma & mental health, wrapped up in some of the finest writing, direction, performance & cinematography of recent times.
1990 / 15 / 1h 53m / Horror, Mystery / English
USA/ 1990/ 15 /Horror, Mystery/ 1h 53m