'Jacob's Ladder' is one of the creepiest horror films ever made, and also one of the most powerful.
Isolation is one of the most essential elements of horror. Every horror story contains it to some extent, although some take a looser definition than others. The clearest example is the simplest – a group of characters are trapped in a single location and can’t leave, be it the Antarctic in The Thing, a spaceship in Alien, or a remote island off the coast of Scotland in The Wicker Man – but isolation can be conveyed in a variety of ways.
The aforementioned subway scene is the best place to start. Not only is it one of the most perfectly executed sequences of surrealistic filmmaking this side of the Mystery Man scene from Lost Highway, but it also embodies the crippling sense of loneliness that torments Jacob throughout the film.
But this technique does more than just amplify the already disturbing horror, but also serves as the linchpin from which Lyne can explore the film’s central thesis: how war continues to torment those who have experienced it long after it has ended. The film opens with a traumatic flashback to Jacob’s time in Vietnam that sees many of his comrades being killed in a surprise attack, a suitably unnerving scene that he will return to many times throughout the film.
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