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Jacob's Ladder (1990 film)

February 26, 2024

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Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 American psychological horror film[4] directed by Adrian Lyne, produced by Alan Marshall and written by Bruce Joel Rubin. The film stars Tim Robbins as Jacob Singer, an American infantryman whose experiences before and during his service in Vietnam result in strange, fragmentary visions and bizarre hallucinations that continue to haunt him. As his ordeal worsens, Jacob desperately attempts to figure out the truth. The film's supporting cast includes Elizabeth Peña and Danny Aiello.

Jacob's Ladder
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAdrian Lyne
Written byBruce Joel Rubin
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJeffrey L. Kimball
Edited byTom Rolf
Music byMaurice Jarre
Production
company
Distributed byTri-Star Pictures
Release date
  • November 2, 1990 (1990-11-02) (United States)
Running time
113 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$25 million[2]
Box office$26.1 million[3]

Jacob's Ladder was made by Carolco Pictures ten years after being written by Rubin. Despite only being moderately successful upon its release, the film garnered a cult following, and its plot and special effects became a source of influence for various other works, such as the Silent Hill video game series. A remake was released in 2019.

Plot edit

On October 6, 1971, American infantryman Jacob Singer is with the 1st Air Cavalry Division, deployed in a village in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, when his close-knit unit comes under sudden attack. As many of Jacob's comrades are killed or wounded, others exhibit abnormal behavior with some suffering catatonia, convulsions, and seizures. Jacob flees into the jungle, only to be stabbed with a bayonet by an unseen assailant.

Jacob awakens in the New York City Subway, where, after glimpsing what he believes to be a tentacle protruding from a sleeping homeless person, an inexplicably locked subway station exit results in him almost being hit by a train. The year is 1975, he works as a postal clerk, and lives in a rundown apartment in Brooklyn with his girlfriend, Jezebel. Jacob misses his old family and experiences visions of them, especially the youngest of his sons, Gabe, who had died in an accident before the war. Jacob is increasingly beset by disturbing experiences and apparitions, including glimpses of faceless vibrating figures, and narrowly escapes being run over by a pursuing car. He attempts to contact his regular doctor at the local VA hospital, but after being told that there is no record of him ever being a patient there, Jacob is told that his doctor has died in a car explosion.

At a party thrown by friends, a psychic reads Jacob's palm and tells him that he is already dead, which Jacob dismisses as a joke. After declining to dance with her, he appears to witness an enormous creature penetrating Jezzie before he collapses. At home, Jacob experiences a dangerous fever, which Jezzie attempts to bring down with a painful ice bath. Jacob briefly wakes up in another reality where he lives with his wife and sons, including a still-alive Gabe. First-person perspective scenes of apparent flashbacks to his time in Vietnam show Jacob, badly wounded, being discovered by American soldiers before being evacuated under fire in a helicopter.

One of Jacob's former platoon mates, Paul, contacts him to reveal he is suffering from similar experiences, but is soon afterwards killed when his car explodes. Commiserating after the funeral, other surviving members of the platoon confess that they have all been experiencing horrifying hallucinations. Believing that they are suffering the effects of a military experiment performed on them without their knowledge or consent, they hire a lawyer to investigate. However, the lawyer quits the case after reading military files documenting that the soldiers were never in combat and were discharged for psychological reasons. Jacob's comrades soon back down while Jacob suspects they have been threatened into doing so. He is abducted by suited men who try to intimidate him. Jacob fights them and escapes but is injured and nearly paralyzed in the process. He is taken to a nightmarish hospital, where he is told he has been killed and this is home, but his chiropractor friend Louis comes to his rescue and heals him. Louis quotes the 14th-century Christian mystic Meister Eckhart:

Eckhart saw Hell too. He said: "The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you", he said. "They're freeing your soul. So, if you're frightened of dying and ... you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth."

Jacob is approached by a distressed man who had been following him from a distance and who also dragged him away from Paul's burning car. Introducing himself as Michael Newman, he tells a story of having been a chemist with the Army's chemical warfare division where he designed a drug he called the Ladder, which massively increased aggression. Michael claims that, to test the drug's effectiveness, a dose was secretly given to Jacob's unit before the battle, causing some of them to turn on each other in a homicidal frenzy. Michael's story triggers a vision of Jacob wounded in Vietnam, which shows his attacker as a fellow American soldier. Jacob returns to his family's home, where he finds Gabe, who takes him by the hand and leads him up the staircase into a bright light. The scene turns to a triage tent in 1971 as military doctors declare Jacob dead. The doctor takes one of his dog tags off his body and notes that Jacob had put up a tremendous fight to stay alive, but looked peaceful in death.

Cast edit

Production edit

The horror of the movie would be in the revelation that hope is hell's final torment, that life is a dream that ends over and over with the final truth: that life was never real, that we are all creatures trapped in eternal suffering and damnation.

–Bruce Joel Rubin[5]

The film's title refers to the Biblical story of Jacob's Ladder, or the dream of a meeting place between Heaven and Earth (Genesis 28:12). Its little-known alternative title is Dante's Inferno, in a reference to Inferno by Dante Alighieri.[6][7][8] Screenwriter and co-producer Bruce Joel Rubin perceived the film as a modern interpretation of the Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State, the Tibetan Book of the Dead.[9][10] Rubin said: "The inspiration in a sense is my entire spiritual upbringing. Once you have a meditative life you start to see that the world is really far different than what it appears to be. What appears to be finite is really couched in the infinite, and the infinite imbues everything in our lives."[11] Before writing his scripts for Jacob's Ladder and Ghost, which too was released in 1990, the Jewish-born Rubin spent two years in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Nepal;[2][12] previously, he had also written afterlife-themed Brainstorm and Deadly Friend.

Rubin's work on Jacob's Ladder began in 1980, sparked by his nightmare in which he dreamt about being trapped in a New York City Subway station. For several years, Rubin tried to sell the script, without success. He was immediately given offers from studios specializing in low-budget horror productions, but insisted on holding out in favor of better funded studios and directors. The script began attracting attention after getting listed as one of American Film magazine's top ten unproduced screenplays.[13] Thom Mount of Universal Pictures said he "loved it, but it was not for his studio". Directors Michael Apted, Sidney Lumet and Ridley Scott all expressed an interest in making the film, but still no major studio was ready to invest in Rubin's "too metaphysical" stories as "Hollywood does not make ghost movies". Eventually, after Deadly Friend was filmed by Wes Craven in 1986, Rubin's screenplays for both Jacob's Ladder and Ghost were picked by Paramount Pictures.[9] In 1988,[2] Adrian Lyne, who described Rubin's work as "certainly one of the best scripts I've ever read", decided then to direct it instead of an adaptation of The Bonfire of the Vanities as he had originally planned (incidentally, Tom Hanks, an actor originally considered by Lyne for the role of Jacob, ended up starring in Bonfire). The ownership and policy changes at Paramount resulted in the cancellation of the project; the executives had doubts about the film's ending and the scenes taking place in Vietnam. The independent film studio Carolco Pictures decided to take over the production of Jacob's Ladder, giving Lyne a greater creative control[9] and a budget of $25 million.[2] Rubin became the film's co-producer, along with Mario Kassar, Alan Marshall and Andrew G. Vajna.

I can see why people didn't want to make it for so long. It reads like a novel, and it's very intimidating because it's written so descriptively. Bruce had these very literal images of heaven and hell that I didn't know how to bring off. How do you introduce a character with horns?

–Adrian Lyne[9]

Lyne, who downplayed Rubin's "intimidating" Old Testament themes,[14] said that he prepared for making the film by watching "endless" documentary films about the war in Vietnam and reading "countless" chronicles of near-death experiences.[2] The film's plot device of a long period of subjective time passing in an instant has been explored by several authors. A particularly strong inspiration for both Rubin and Lyne was Robert Enrico's 1962 short film An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,[15] one of Lyne's favorite films,[9] which was in turn based on Ambrose Bierce's 1890 short story of the same title. Cinematographer Jeffrey L. Kimball based the film's dream sequences on the art of Francis Bacon.[13]

Tim Robbins and Elizabeth Peña were among the first actors to audition for the roles of Jacob and Jezzie, but Carolco Pictures initially demanded more established stars in the role. Dustin Hoffman, Richard Gere, and Al Pacino were considered for the role of Jacob while Andie MacDowell, Julia Roberts, Demi Moore, and Madonna were considered for the role of Jezzie. Lyne ultimately decided to cast Robbins and Peña anyway.[13] Cast in the role of Jacob, Tim Robbins said the film presented for him "a great opportunity to go in a different direction. I love doing comedy, but I know I can do other things as well."[2]

Filming began in New York City on September 11, 1989, and took place on location in Staten Island, Queens, and Brooklyn. Jacob and Jezzie's apartment was filmed on a soundstage in West 23rd Street, while the subway dream sequences were shot on an abandoned level of Bergen Street station. The Seaview Hospital of Staten Island; the Essex County Veterans Courthouse of Newark, New Jersey; and Madison Square Garden were also featured as locations in the film. The film's military advisor was Vietnam veteran Captain Dale Dye,[16] who provided a five-day boot camp military training for the actors playing soldiers in the Vietnam storyline (including Robbins, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Eriq La Salle and Ving Rhames). The war scenes were filmed in the jungles near Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, featuring the UH-1 helicopters provided by the Puerto Rico National Guard. Filming concluded at Tortuguero Lagoon in January 1990 with a $40 million budget.[13]

All of the film's special effect sequences were filmed in camera, with no use of post production effects. In several scenes of Jacob's Ladder, Lyne used a body horror technique in which an actor is recorded shaking his head around at a low frame rate, resulting in horrifically fast motion when played back. In the Special Edition's commentary track, Lyne said he was inspired by the art of the painter Francis Bacon when developing the effect.[17] In his screenplay, Rubin used traditional imagery of demons and hell. However, Lyne decided to use images similar to thalidomide deformities to achieve a greater shock effect.[15] After many heated arguments,[2] Lyne managed to convert Rubin to his vision. Lyne and Rubin used the works of the artist H. R. Giger and the photographers Diane Arbus and Joel-Peter Witkin for inspiration; another influence came from the Brothers Quay's 1986 stop motion short film Street of Crocodiles.

Vietnam was really a means to an end. It was a plot device rather than something we were trying to make a huge issue of.

–Alan Marshall[2]

In the film, Jacob is told by Michael that the horrific events he experienced on his final day in Vietnam were the product of an experimental drug called "the Ladder", which was used on troops without their knowledge. At the end of the film, a message is displayed saying that reports of testing of BZ, NATO code for a deliriant and hallucinogen known as 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, on U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War were denied by the Pentagon. Lyne said a part of the inspiration for this motif was Martin A. Lee's book Acid Dreams: The CIA, LSD and Sixties Rebellion, but noted that "nothing in the book suggests that the drug BZ — a super-hallucinogen that has a tendency to elicit maniac behavior — was used on U.S. troops."[9]

According to Lyne's audio commentary, test screenings indicated that the initial version of the film was overwhelming for the audience. In response, about 20 minutes of disturbing scenes, mostly from the last third of the film, were removed from the final cut.

Release edit

Theatrical release edit

Jacob's Ladder opened on November 2, 1990, distributed by TriStar Pictures. Jacob's Ladder: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack with the music by Maurice Jarre was released by Varèse Sarabande in 1993 and then by Waxwork Records in March 2020 on a single LP.[18][19] Rubin's companion book, released by Applause Theater Book Publishers on the same day as the film,[9] features a final draft of the screenplay, including the deleted scenes, and his essay on making of the screenplay and the film.[15]

Home media edit

The Special Edition DVD was released by Artisan Entertainment on July 14, 1998, containing three deleted scenes ("Jezzie's Transformation", "The Antidote" and "The Train Station") along with several other special features, such as audio commentary by Adrian Lyne and a 26-minute making-of documentary "Building Jacob's Ladder".[20] On September 14, 2010, the film was released on Blu-ray Disc by Lions Gate Entertainment and retains all of the special features of the DVD version, along with two promotional trailers, omitting only a TV spot that came with the DVD.[21][22]

Reception edit

Box office edit

The film took the number one spot at the weekend box office in North America, garnering ticket sales of $7.5 million from 1,052 screens.[23] However, the attendance dropped fast and its overall domestic box office result was only $26,118,851.[3]

Critical reception edit

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, 72% of 68 reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The site's consensus reads: "Even with its disorienting leaps of logic and structure, Jacob's Ladder is an engrossing, nerve-shattering experience".[24] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 62 out of 100 based on reviews from 20 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[25] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C−" on an A+ to F scale.[26]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote that watching it left him "reeling with turmoil and confusion, with feelings of sadness and despair," and called it a "thoroughly painful and depressing experience — but, it must be said, one that has been powerfully written, directed and acted." He awarded the film three and a half out of a possible four stars.[27] Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that this "slick, riveting, viscerally scary film about what in other hands would be a decidedly unsalable subject, namely death," is "both quaint and devastating."[28]

Desson Thomson of The Washington Post felt disappointed with the film that is "ultimately flat on its surrealistic face, the victim of too many fake-art sequences."[29] Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that "Jacob's Ladder is so 'dark' it sucks Robbins right down with it. By the time Jacob is being strapped to a bed and wheeled down a hospital corridor strewn with bloody limbs, it's hard to care whether the Orwellian image is a hallucination or not. You just want out."[30] Kim Newman called the film "effectively the blunt remake" of Carnival of Souls.[14]

According to IGN's review of the DVD release in 2004, "After movies like Se7en, it may not pack the same subtle horror for today's audiences it did when it was first released, but it's still a great film."[20] IGN's review of Jacob's Ladder's 2010 Blu-ray release called it "an emotionally poignant, creepy horror masterpiece."[21] According to Slant Magazine, Jacob's Ladder is "a bizarrely cohesive hybrid of war movie, character study, art film, and horror flick" and "the very act of watching the film is so emotionally draining that the viewer leaves the film feeling worked-in; the thought of repeat viewings is daunting yet insatiable."[22] John Kenneth Muir called the film's nightmarish hospital scene "one of the most terrifying moments in all of 1990s horror cinema." Muir further wrote: "In its musings about death, about the end we all fear, Jacob's Ladder proves a deeply affecting and meaningful motion picture. After a screening, you'll immediately want to hug the people you love and then go outside and breathe the fresh air, or otherwise affirm your very existence."[31]

Rubin's script was included on the list of "Hollywood's ten best unproduced screenplays" by American Film magazine in 1983.[2] In 1991, Jacob's Ladder was nominated at Horror Hall of Fame II for best horror film, losing to The Silence of the Lambs. The film was also featured in Bravo's 2004 documentary miniseries The 100 Scariest Movie Moments[32] and in the 2009 book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. In 2013, the Jacob Burns Film Center projectionist Andrew Robinson chose it as his favorite scary movie.[33]

Legacy edit

Jacob's Ladder greatly inspired the horror franchise Silent Hill,[34] including the video games Silent Hill (1999),[35] Silent Hill 2 (2001),[36] Silent Hill 3 (2003),[37] Silent Hill 4: The Room (2004),[38] and Silent Hill: Homecoming (2007),[39] as well as the series' 2006 film adaptation by Christophe Gans.[40] The film's influence on their works was also recognized by Ryan Murphy, writer of the 2011 TV series American Horror Story: Asylum,[41] and by Shinji Mikami, creator of the Resident Evil series and director of the 2014 video game The Evil Within.[42] Kim Manners prepared for directing The X-Files episode "Grotesque" by listening to the music from Jacob's Ladder.[43] The music video for the 2010 song "Nightmare" by Avenged Sevenfold is an homage to the famous hospital scene from the film, chosen by the director Wayne Isham, because the band's deceased drummer The Rev was a fan of the film.[44]

Jacob's Ladder as a film is directly referred to in Silent Hill 2 and especially Silent Hill 3.[45] Other references to the film itself include the mentions in the 2002 The Twilight Zone episode "Night Route" (dialog[46]) and the 2010 The Simpsons episode "The Squirt and the Whale" (visual). Rick and Morty references the film in Season 4, Episode 6: "Never Ricking Morty" with a flashback when Morty stabs Rick with a bayonet, reminiscent of what happens to the main protagonist at the beginning of the film.[47]

In music, Claytown Troupe used a sample of Michael's quote 'It's a fast trip ... ' at the beginning of the track "Rainbow's Edge" from their 1991 album Out There. UNKLE sampled dialogue from the film in their 1998 "Rabbit in Your Headlights" and again in 2003 in "Inside". VNV Nation's track "Forsaken" from the 1998 album Praise the Fallen ends with the quotation from Eckhart. "Devils" from IVardensphere's 2011 album APOK begins with the same quotation. A sample of Jacob's cry 'Stop it, you're killing me!' is used in "Next in Line" from Nevermore's 1996 album The Politics of Ecstasy. Terminal Sect extensively sampled the film for their track "Where Angels Fall".

The film's possible influence can be arguably seen in many other works ranging from M. Night Shyamalan's 1999 hit psychological horror film The Sixth Sense[48] to Peter Arnett's controversial 1998 CNN report "Valley of Death" about the 1970 Operation Tailwind.[49] Jeff Millar of Houston Chronicle wrote that Giuseppe Tornatore's 1994 psychological thriller A Pure Formality uses the plot device of Jacob's Ladder mixed with several other sources.[50] According to Premiere, Massy Tadjedin's 2005 psychological thriller The Jacket "is a film for those who don't remember Jacob's Ladder, perhaps for someone like Jacob himself," as it "resembles Jacob's Ladder too much for its own good."[51]

Director Christopher Nolan have said that Jacob's Ladder, specifically its use of abstract imagery, was an influence on his 2023 film Oppenheimer.[52]

Remake edit

Main article: Jacob's Ladder (2019 film)

A remake directed by David M. Rosenthal and written by Jeff Buhler, Sarah Thorp and Jake Wade Wall was released in 2019, to negative reception. The film stars Michael Ealy, Jesse Williams, Nicole Beharie, Karla Souza, and Guy Burnet.[53]

See also edit

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For other uses see Jacob s Ladder disambiguation Jacob s Ladder is a 1990 American psychological horror film 4 directed by Adrian Lyne produced by Alan Marshall and written by Bruce Joel Rubin The film stars Tim Robbins as Jacob Singer an American infantryman whose experiences before and during his service in Vietnam result in strange fragmentary visions and bizarre hallucinations that continue to haunt him As his ordeal worsens Jacob desperately attempts to figure out the truth The film s supporting cast includes Elizabeth Pena and Danny Aiello Jacob s LadderTheatrical release posterDirected byAdrian LyneWritten byBruce Joel RubinProduced byAlan Marshall Mario KassarStarringTim Robbins Elizabeth Pena Danny AielloCinematographyJeffrey L KimballEdited byTom RolfMusic byMaurice JarreProductioncompanyCarolco PicturesDistributed byTri Star PicturesRelease dateNovember 2 1990 1990 11 02 United States Running time113 minutes 1 CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget 25 million 2 Box office 26 1 million 3 Jacob s Ladder was made by Carolco Pictures ten years after being written by Rubin Despite only being moderately successful upon its release the film garnered a cult following and its plot and special effects became a source of influence for various other works such as the Silent Hill video game series A remake was released in 2019 Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production 4 Release 4 1 Theatrical release 4 2 Home media 5 Reception 5 1 Box office 5 2 Critical reception 6 Legacy 7 Remake 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksPlot editOn October 6 1971 American infantryman Jacob Singer is with the 1st Air Cavalry Division deployed in a village in Vietnam s Mekong Delta when his close knit unit comes under sudden attack As many of Jacob s comrades are killed or wounded others exhibit abnormal behavior with some suffering catatonia convulsions and seizures Jacob flees into the jungle only to be stabbed with a bayonet by an unseen assailant Jacob awakens in the New York City Subway where after glimpsing what he believes to be a tentacle protruding from a sleeping homeless person an inexplicably locked subway station exit results in him almost being hit by a train The year is 1975 he works as a postal clerk and lives in a rundown apartment in Brooklyn with his girlfriend Jezebel Jacob misses his old family and experiences visions of them especially the youngest of his sons Gabe who had died in an accident before the war Jacob is increasingly beset by disturbing experiences and apparitions including glimpses of faceless vibrating figures and narrowly escapes being run over by a pursuing car He attempts to contact his regular doctor at the local VA hospital but after being told that there is no record of him ever being a patient there Jacob is told that his doctor has died in a car explosion At a party thrown by friends a psychic reads Jacob s palm and tells him that he is already dead which Jacob dismisses as a joke After declining to dance with her he appears to witness an enormous creature penetrating Jezzie before he collapses At home Jacob experiences a dangerous fever which Jezzie attempts to bring down with a painful ice bath Jacob briefly wakes up in another reality where he lives with his wife and sons including a still alive Gabe First person perspective scenes of apparent flashbacks to his time in Vietnam show Jacob badly wounded being discovered by American soldiers before being evacuated under fire in a helicopter One of Jacob s former platoon mates Paul contacts him to reveal he is suffering from similar experiences but is soon afterwards killed when his car explodes Commiserating after the funeral other surviving members of the platoon confess that they have all been experiencing horrifying hallucinations Believing that they are suffering the effects of a military experiment performed on them without their knowledge or consent they hire a lawyer to investigate However the lawyer quits the case after reading military files documenting that the soldiers were never in combat and were discharged for psychological reasons Jacob s comrades soon back down while Jacob suspects they have been threatened into doing so He is abducted by suited men who try to intimidate him Jacob fights them and escapes but is injured and nearly paralyzed in the process He is taken to a nightmarish hospital where he is told he has been killed and this is home but his chiropractor friend Louis comes to his rescue and heals him Louis quotes the 14th century Christian mystic Meister Eckhart Eckhart saw Hell too He said The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won t let go of life your memories your attachments They burn them all away But they re not punishing you he said They re freeing your soul So if you re frightened of dying and you re holding on you ll see devils tearing your life away But if you ve made your peace then the devils are really angels freeing you from the earth Jacob is approached by a distressed man who had been following him from a distance and who also dragged him away from Paul s burning car Introducing himself as Michael Newman he tells a story of having been a chemist with the Army s chemical warfare division where he designed a drug he called the Ladder which massively increased aggression Michael claims that to test the drug s effectiveness a dose was secretly given to Jacob s unit before the battle causing some of them to turn on each other in a homicidal frenzy Michael s story triggers a vision of Jacob wounded in Vietnam which shows his attacker as a fellow American soldier Jacob returns to his family s home where he finds Gabe who takes him by the hand and leads him up the staircase into a bright light The scene turns to a triage tent in 1971 as military doctors declare Jacob dead The doctor takes one of his dog tags off his body and notes that Jacob had put up a tremendous fight to stay alive but looked peaceful in death Cast editTim Robbins as Jacob Professor Singer Elizabeth Pena as Jezebel Jezzie Pipkin Danny Aiello as Louis Louie Denardo Matt Craven as Michael Newman Pruitt Taylor Vince as Paul Gruneger Jason Alexander as Mr Geary Patricia Kalember as Sarah Singer Eriq La Salle as Frank Ving Rhames as George Brian Tarantina as Doug Anthony Alessandro as Rod Brent Hinkley as Jerry S Epatha Merkerson as Elsa John Capodice as Army officer Kyle Gass as Tony Lewis Black as Jacob s doctor Perry Lang as Jacob s assailant Macaulay Culkin as Gabriel Gabe SingerProduction editThe horror of the movie would be in the revelation that hope is hell s final torment that life is a dream that ends over and over with the final truth that life was never real that we are all creatures trapped in eternal suffering and damnation Bruce Joel Rubin 5 The film s title refers to the Biblical story of Jacob s Ladder or the dream of a meeting place between Heaven and Earth Genesis 28 12 Its little known alternative title is Dante s Inferno in a reference to Inferno by Dante Alighieri 6 7 8 Screenwriter and co producer Bruce Joel Rubin perceived the film as a modern interpretation of the Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State the Tibetan Book of the Dead 9 10 Rubin said The inspiration in a sense is my entire spiritual upbringing Once you have a meditative life you start to see that the world is really far different than what it appears to be What appears to be finite is really couched in the infinite and the infinite imbues everything in our lives 11 Before writing his scripts for Jacob s Ladder and Ghost which too was released in 1990 the Jewish born Rubin spent two years in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in Nepal 2 12 previously he had also written afterlife themed Brainstorm and Deadly Friend Rubin s work on Jacob s Ladder began in 1980 sparked by his nightmare in which he dreamt about being trapped in a New York City Subway station For several years Rubin tried to sell the script without success He was immediately given offers from studios specializing in low budget horror productions but insisted on holding out in favor of better funded studios and directors The script began attracting attention after getting listed as one of American Film magazine s top ten unproduced screenplays 13 Thom Mount of Universal Pictures said he loved it but it was not for his studio Directors Michael Apted Sidney Lumet and Ridley Scott all expressed an interest in making the film but still no major studio was ready to invest in Rubin s too metaphysical stories as Hollywood does not make ghost movies Eventually after Deadly Friend was filmed by Wes Craven in 1986 Rubin s screenplays for both Jacob s Ladder and Ghost were picked by Paramount Pictures 9 In 1988 2 Adrian Lyne who described Rubin s work as certainly one of the best scripts I ve ever read decided then to direct it instead of an adaptation of The Bonfire of the Vanities as he had originally planned incidentally Tom Hanks an actor originally considered by Lyne for the role of Jacob ended up starring in Bonfire The ownership and policy changes at Paramount resulted in the cancellation of the project the executives had doubts about the film s ending and the scenes taking place in Vietnam The independent film studio Carolco Pictures decided to take over the production of Jacob s Ladder giving Lyne a greater creative control 9 and a budget of 25 million 2 Rubin became the film s co producer along with Mario Kassar Alan Marshall and Andrew G Vajna I can see why people didn t want to make it for so long It reads like a novel and it s very intimidating because it s written so descriptively Bruce had these very literal images of heaven and hell that I didn t know how to bring off How do you introduce a character with horns Adrian Lyne 9 Lyne who downplayed Rubin s intimidating Old Testament themes 14 said that he prepared for making the film by watching endless documentary films about the war in Vietnam and reading countless chronicles of near death experiences 2 The film s plot device of a long period of subjective time passing in an instant has been explored by several authors A particularly strong inspiration for both Rubin and Lyne was Robert Enrico s 1962 short film An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge 15 one of Lyne s favorite films 9 which was in turn based on Ambrose Bierce s 1890 short story of the same title Cinematographer Jeffrey L Kimball based the film s dream sequences on the art of Francis Bacon 13 Tim Robbins and Elizabeth Pena were among the first actors to audition for the roles of Jacob and Jezzie but Carolco Pictures initially demanded more established stars in the role Dustin Hoffman Richard Gere and Al Pacino were considered for the role of Jacob while Andie MacDowell Julia Roberts Demi Moore and Madonna were considered for the role of Jezzie Lyne ultimately decided to cast Robbins and Pena anyway 13 Cast in the role of Jacob Tim Robbins said the film presented for him a great opportunity to go in a different direction I love doing comedy but I know I can do other things as well 2 Filming began in New York City on September 11 1989 and took place on location in Staten Island Queens and Brooklyn Jacob and Jezzie s apartment was filmed on a soundstage in West 23rd Street while the subway dream sequences were shot on an abandoned level of Bergen Street station The Seaview Hospital of Staten Island the Essex County Veterans Courthouse of Newark New Jersey and Madison Square Garden were also featured as locations in the film The film s military advisor was Vietnam veteran Captain Dale Dye 16 who provided a five day boot camp military training for the actors playing soldiers in the Vietnam storyline including Robbins Pruitt Taylor Vince Eriq La Salle and Ving Rhames The war scenes were filmed in the jungles near Vega Baja Puerto Rico featuring the UH 1 helicopters provided by the Puerto Rico National Guard Filming concluded at Tortuguero Lagoon in January 1990 with a 40 million budget 13 All of the film s special effect sequences were filmed in camera with no use of post production effects In several scenes of Jacob s Ladder Lyne used a body horror technique in which an actor is recorded shaking his head around at a low frame rate resulting in horrifically fast motion when played back In the Special Edition s commentary track Lyne said he was inspired by the art of the painter Francis Bacon when developing the effect 17 In his screenplay Rubin used traditional imagery of demons and hell However Lyne decided to use images similar to thalidomide deformities to achieve a greater shock effect 15 After many heated arguments 2 Lyne managed to convert Rubin to his vision Lyne and Rubin used the works of the artist H R Giger and the photographers Diane Arbus and Joel Peter Witkin for inspiration another influence came from the Brothers Quay s 1986 stop motion short film Street of Crocodiles Vietnam was really a means to an end It was a plot device rather than something we were trying to make a huge issue of Alan Marshall 2 In the film Jacob is told by Michael that the horrific events he experienced on his final day in Vietnam were the product of an experimental drug called the Ladder which was used on troops without their knowledge At the end of the film a message is displayed saying that reports of testing of BZ NATO code for a deliriant and hallucinogen known as 3 quinuclidinyl benzilate on U S soldiers during the Vietnam War were denied by the Pentagon Lyne said a part of the inspiration for this motif was Martin A Lee s book Acid Dreams The CIA LSD and Sixties Rebellion but noted that nothing in the book suggests that the drug BZ a super hallucinogen that has a tendency to elicit maniac behavior was used on U S troops 9 According to Lyne s audio commentary test screenings indicated that the initial version of the film was overwhelming for the audience In response about 20 minutes of disturbing scenes mostly from the last third of the film were removed from the final cut Release editTheatrical release edit Jacob s Ladder opened on November 2 1990 distributed by TriStar Pictures Jacob s Ladder Original Motion Picture Soundtrack with the music by Maurice Jarre was released by Varese Sarabande in 1993 and then by Waxwork Records in March 2020 on a single LP 18 19 Rubin s companion book released by Applause Theater Book Publishers on the same day as the film 9 features a final draft of the screenplay including the deleted scenes and his essay on making of the screenplay and the film 15 Home media edit The Special Edition DVD was released by Artisan Entertainment on July 14 1998 containing three deleted scenes Jezzie s Transformation The Antidote and The Train Station along with several other special features such as audio commentary by Adrian Lyne and a 26 minute making of documentary Building Jacob s Ladder 20 On September 14 2010 the film was released on Blu ray Disc by Lions Gate Entertainment and retains all of the special features of the DVD version along with two promotional trailers omitting only a TV spot that came with the DVD 21 22 Reception editBox office edit The film took the number one spot at the weekend box office in North America garnering ticket sales of 7 5 million from 1 052 screens 23 However the attendance dropped fast and its overall domestic box office result was only 26 118 851 3 Critical reception edit On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes 72 of 68 reviews are positive with an average rating of 6 6 10 The site s consensus reads Even with its disorienting leaps of logic and structure Jacob s Ladder is an engrossing nerve shattering experience 24 On Metacritic the film has a score of 62 out of 100 based on reviews from 20 critics indicating generally favorable reviews 25 Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of C on an A to F scale 26 Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times wrote that watching it left him reeling with turmoil and confusion with feelings of sadness and despair and called it a thoroughly painful and depressing experience but it must be said one that has been powerfully written directed and acted He awarded the film three and a half out of a possible four stars 27 Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that this slick riveting viscerally scary film about what in other hands would be a decidedly unsalable subject namely death is both quaint and devastating 28 Desson Thomson of The Washington Post felt disappointed with the film that is ultimately flat on its surrealistic face the victim of too many fake art sequences 29 Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly wrote that Jacob s Ladder is so dark it sucks Robbins right down with it By the time Jacob is being strapped to a bed and wheeled down a hospital corridor strewn with bloody limbs it s hard to care whether the Orwellian image is a hallucination or not You just want out 30 Kim Newman called the film effectively the blunt remake of Carnival of Souls 14 According to IGN s review of the DVD release in 2004 After movies like Se7en it may not pack the same subtle horror for today s audiences it did when it was first released but it s still a great film 20 IGN s review of Jacob s Ladder s 2010 Blu ray release called it an emotionally poignant creepy horror masterpiece 21 According to Slant Magazine Jacob s Ladder is a bizarrely cohesive hybrid of war movie character study art film and horror flick and the very act of watching the film is so emotionally draining that the viewer leaves the film feeling worked in the thought of repeat viewings is daunting yet insatiable 22 John Kenneth Muir called the film s nightmarish hospital scene one of the most terrifying moments in all of 1990s horror cinema Muir further wrote In its musings about death about the end we all fear Jacob s Ladder proves a deeply affecting and meaningful motion picture After a screening you ll immediately want to hug the people you love and then go outside and breathe the fresh air or otherwise affirm your very existence 31 Rubin s script was included on the list of Hollywood s ten best unproduced screenplays by American Film magazine in 1983 2 In 1991 Jacob s Ladder was nominated at Horror Hall of Fame II for best horror film losing to The Silence of the Lambs The film was also featured in Bravo s 2004 documentary miniseries The 100 Scariest Movie Moments 32 and in the 2009 book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die In 2013 the Jacob Burns Film Center projectionist Andrew Robinson chose it as his favorite scary movie 33 Legacy editJacob s Ladder greatly inspired the horror franchise Silent Hill 34 including the video games Silent Hill 1999 35 Silent Hill 2 2001 36 Silent Hill 3 2003 37 Silent Hill 4 The Room 2004 38 and Silent Hill Homecoming 2007 39 as well as the series 2006 film adaptation by Christophe Gans 40 The film s influence on their works was also recognized by Ryan Murphy writer of the 2011 TV series American Horror Story Asylum 41 and by Shinji Mikami creator of the Resident Evil series and director of the 2014 video game The Evil Within 42 Kim Manners prepared for directing The X Files episode Grotesque by listening to the music from Jacob s Ladder 43 The music video for the 2010 song Nightmare by Avenged Sevenfold is an homage to the famous hospital scene from the film chosen by the director Wayne Isham because the band s deceased drummer The Rev was a fan of the film 44 Jacob s Ladder as a film is directly referred to in Silent Hill 2 and especially Silent Hill 3 45 Other references to the film itself include the mentions in the 2002 The Twilight Zone episode Night Route dialog 46 and the 2010 The Simpsons episode The Squirt and the Whale visual Rick and Morty references the film in Season 4 Episode 6 Never Ricking Morty with a flashback when Morty stabs Rick with a bayonet reminiscent of what happens to the main protagonist at the beginning of the film 47 In music Claytown Troupe used a sample of Michael s quote It s a fast trip at the beginning of the track Rainbow s Edge from their 1991 album Out There UNKLE sampled dialogue from the film in their 1998 Rabbit in Your Headlights and again in 2003 in Inside VNV Nation s track Forsaken from the 1998 album Praise the Fallen ends with the quotation from Eckhart Devils from IVardensphere s 2011 album APOK begins with the same quotation A sample of Jacob s cry Stop it you re killing me is used in Next in Line from Nevermore s 1996 album The Politics of Ecstasy Terminal Sect extensively sampled the film for their track Where Angels Fall The film s possible influence can be arguably seen in many other works ranging from M Night Shyamalan s 1999 hit psychological horror film The Sixth Sense 48 to Peter Arnett s controversial 1998 CNN report Valley of Death about the 1970 Operation Tailwind 49 Jeff Millar of Houston Chronicle wrote that Giuseppe Tornatore s 1994 psychological thriller A Pure Formality uses the plot device of Jacob s Ladder mixed with several other sources 50 According to Premiere Massy Tadjedin s 2005 psychological thriller The Jacket is a film for those who don t remember Jacob s Ladder perhaps for someone like Jacob himself as it resembles Jacob s Ladder too much for its own good 51 Director Christopher Nolan have said that Jacob s Ladder specifically its use of abstract imagery was an influence on his 2023 film Oppenheimer 52 Remake editMain article Jacob s Ladder 2019 film A remake directed by David M Rosenthal and written by Jeff Buhler Sarah Thorp and Jake Wade Wall was released in 2019 to negative reception The film stars Michael Ealy Jesse Williams Nicole Beharie Karla Souza and Guy Burnet 53 See also editConspiracy fiction and paranoid fiction Cotard delusion List of anti war films List of films featuring hallucinogens List of nonlinear narrative films The Manchurian Candidate 1962 The Manchurian Candidate 2004 Unethical human experimentation in the United States Vietnam War in filmReferences edit Jacob s Ladder 18 British Board 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