Jacob's Ladder Movie Poster

Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 American horror film directed by Adrian Lyne and starring Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, and Danny Aiello. The story centers around Vietnam veteran Jacob Singer, whose experiences both prior to and during the war have resulted in strange flashbacks and bizarre hallucinations that continue to haunt him in his everyday life. Though only a moderately critical and financial success upon release, the film has garnered a cult following. It was also a major source of inspiration for the survival and psychological horror media franchise Silent Hill.The story begins on Ocober 6, 1971, when Jacob Singer is a soldier with the 1st Air Cav, deployed in a village in the Mekong Delta during the Vietnam War. Suddenly, his unit comes under heavy attack from the jungle while the soldiers around begin to exhibit very strange behavior, some going catatonic or into a bloody seizure. Jacob attempts to escape the unexplained insanity, only to be stabbed with a bayonet by an unseen attacker.