Jacob's Ladder - Monsters of the Week

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Let's take a look at one of Silent Hill's major influences: Jacob's Ladder (1990). A psychological horror movie by Adrian Lyne, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and starring Tim Robbins and Elizabeth Peña.
It's a deeply ambiguous film with many cultural and mythological references, so in this episode of Monsters of the Week, I will unravel some of the mindbending plot devices and try to interpret and analyze the meaning of the whole conundrum about Jacob Singer's passage to the afterlife.

Special Thanks to James Curcio
http://www.modernmythology.net/2010/03/long-road-out-of-hell-jacobs-ladder.html
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