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* MeaningfulName: The main characters have Biblical names which describe them: Jacob, Jezebel, Gabriel, Elijah, Jedediah, and so on. {{Lampshaded}} by Jacob and Jezzie.
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* MeaningfulName: The main characters have Biblical names which describe them: Jacob, Jezebel, Gabriel, Elijah, Jedediah, Michael and so on. {{Lampshaded}} by Jacob and Jezzie.
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** Also {{Lampshaded}} by a GovernmentMook: "Mr. Singer. What an appropriate name for a man who can't shut up."
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* AdultFear: Plenty. [[spoiler: Gabe's death, being trapped in a subway, friends dying one by one, becoming an UnPerson, and so on.]]
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* AdultFear: Plenty. [[spoiler: Gabe's death, being trapped in a subway, friends dying one by one, becoming an UnPerson, being taken hostage in broad daylight with witnesses pretending they don't see you, and so on.]]
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** Earlier in the film, he gets the same thing from the woman reading his palm.
--->'''Palmreader:''' [[spoiler: It's not funny. According to this, you're already dead! You're outta here baby!]]
--->'''Palmreader:''' [[spoiler: It's not funny. According to this, you're already dead! You're outta here baby!]]
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This movie was one of the primary inspirations for the ''SilentHill'' franchise of games.
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This movie was one of the primary inspirations for the ''SilentHill'' ''Franchise/SilentHill'' franchise of games.
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* [[spoiler:DyingDream: At the end, Jacob discovers that he never made it out of Vietnam.]]
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* [[spoiler:DyingDream: At the end, Jacob discovers that he never made it out of Vietnam. His nightmares were partly caused by the psychedelic drug he was given by the government.]]
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* RedHerring: [[spoiler: The GovernmentConspiracy, to a degree.]]
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-->[[spoiler: '''Jacob:''' You know you look like an angel? Like an overgrown cherub.]]
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* NiceGuy: Nothing you can say will get a rise out of Jacob. He just laughs, though he'll genially toss a barb back at you, with no malice. WordOfGod says that it's deliberate, so that all the horrible stuff that he goes through is that much worse.
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* MeaningfulName: The main characters have Biblical names which describe them: Jacob, Jezebel, Gabriel, Elijah, Jedediah, and so on. {{Lampshaded}} by Jacob and Jezzie.
-->'''Jezebel:''' I never went for church names.
-->'''Jacob:''' Where do you think ''Jezebel'' came from?!
-->'''Jezebel:''' I never went for church names.
-->'''Jacob:''' Where do you think ''Jezebel'' came from?!
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* SurrealHorror SurrealHorror: Inspired by the works of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_%28artist%29 Francis Bacon]], according to WordOfGod.
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* AdultFear: Plenty. [[spoiler: Gabe's death, being trapped in a subway, friends dying one by one, becoming an UnPerson, and so on.]]
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* FreezeFrameBonus: Plenty. Like when Jezzie [[NightmareFuel transforms briefly]] into something with [[BlackEyesOfEvil black eyes]] and a gummed mouth with tiny teeth.
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* GovernmentConspiracy: One of the plot threads involves a mysterious drug. At one point, Jacob finds out all record of his even having served in Vietnam has been erased, and all the people who knew him are being killed off one by one. The final card informs that BZ had been used on American troops during the Vietnam War.
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** [[spoiler:Even if there's no afterlife, it's still heartwarming that Jacob is able to make peace with his demise. "He looks kinda peaceful."]]
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** Jacob, who spends even more time shirtless, [[MrFanservice might count too.]]
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Crosswicking.
'''''Jacob's Ladder''''' (1990) is a psychological {{thriller}} / {{horror}} film directed by Adrian Lyne, based on a screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin. It stars Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Pena, Danny Aiello, and Creator/JasonAlexander. Actor Macaulay Culkin appears briefly in an uncredited performance.
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''Jacob's Ladder'' (1990) is a psychological {{thriller}} / {{horror}} film directed by Adrian Lyne, based on a screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin. It stars Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Pena, Danny Aiello, and Jason Alexander. Actor Macaulay Culkin appears briefly in an uncredited performance.
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* SchrodingersButterfly: This is the entire premise of the film. The main character keeps bouncing back and forth between two realities, each of which shares some people and places in common, but both of which seem to have demons in them as well. [[spoiler:It's finally shown that he had died in Vietnam, and this was all just an in-your-head Purgatory.]]
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It Got Worse rename
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* HospitalGurneyScene: [[ItGotWorse It gets worse]].
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* HospitalGurneyScene: [[ItGotWorse [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse]].
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-->[[spoiler: '''Evil Doctor: Then what are you doing ''here''?]]
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-->[[spoiler: '''Evil Doctor: Doctor:''' Then what are you doing ''here''?]]
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* TheNotSecret: The Bad Doctor actually ''spoils the entire movie'', if you take what he's saying at face value.
-->[[spoiler: '''Jacob:''' Get me out of here.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Evil Doctor:''' Where do you want to go?]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Jacob:''' Home.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Evil Doctor:''' Home? This is your home. You're dead.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Jacob:''' Dead? No. I just hurt my back, I'm not dead.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Evil Doctor:''' What are you, then?]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Jacob:''' I'm '''''alive'''''.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Evil Doctor: Then what are you doing ''here''?]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Jacob:''' I don't know. This isn't happening.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Evil Doctor:''' What ''is'' happening?]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Jacob:''' Get me out of here.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Evil Doctor:''' ''(sighing with frustration)'' There is no "out of here". You've been killed, don't you remember?]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Jacob:''' Get me out of here.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Evil Doctor:''' Where do you want to go?]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Jacob:''' Home.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Evil Doctor:''' Home? This is your home. You're dead.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Jacob:''' Dead? No. I just hurt my back, I'm not dead.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Evil Doctor:''' What are you, then?]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Jacob:''' I'm '''''alive'''''.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Evil Doctor: Then what are you doing ''here''?]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Jacob:''' I don't know. This isn't happening.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Evil Doctor:''' What ''is'' happening?]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Jacob:''' Get me out of here.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Evil Doctor:''' ''(sighing with frustration)'' There is no "out of here". You've been killed, don't you remember?]]
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* BodyHorror: The demons, according to Adrian Lyne, were made to resemble thalidomide victims and other birth defects. One seemingly has a long, prehensile penis.
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* TomatoInTheMirrorTomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: In the DeletedScene, Jezzie turns out to be Jacob himself. She was a WhatHappenedToTheMouse in the theatrical cut.]]
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\"...whilst being being...\" Yeah, no. (If I didn\'t catch it, Those Wacky Grammar Nazis would.
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* FanDisservice: Elizabeth Pena, dancing suggestively while sweating? Hot. Elizabeth Pena dancing suggestively while sweating whilist being [[spoiler: being molested by some sort of demon?]] Not so much.
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* FanDisservice: Elizabeth Pena, dancing suggestively while sweating? Hot. Elizabeth Pena dancing suggestively while sweating whilist being [[spoiler: being molested by some sort of demon?]] Not so much.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to director Adrian Lyne, the original screenplay contained a much more traditional, [[HieronymusBosch Bosch-esque]] depiction of hell. However, Lyne thought audiences would find such imagery silly.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to director Adrian Lyne, the original screenplay contained a much more traditional, [[HieronymusBosch [[Creator/HieronymusBosch Bosch-esque]] depiction of hell. However, Lyne thought audiences would find such imagery silly.
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* [[spoiler:DeadAllAlong]][[spoiler:DeadToBeginWith]]
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* DownerEnding: Of sorts. [[spoiler: He was DeadAllAlong (or rather Dying All Along).]]
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** FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: Nothing in "1982" is anything Jacob wouldn't have known about in the early 70's.]]
* FridgeBrilliance: As mentioned by the WordOfGod, Jacob ''never'' appears in the same frame as any of the visions of demons, [[spoiler: because that's exactly what they are: ''visions''.]]
* FridgeBrilliance: As mentioned by the WordOfGod, Jacob ''never'' appears in the same frame as any of the visions of demons, [[spoiler: because that's exactly what they are: ''visions''.]]
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** FridgeBrilliance: [[FridgeBrilliance When you think about it]], [[spoiler: Nothing nothing in "1982" is anything Jacob wouldn't have known about in the early 70's.]]
* FridgeBrilliance: As mentioned by the WordOfGod, Jacob ''never'' appears in the same frame as any of the visions of demons, [[spoiler: because that's exactly what they are: ''visions''.]]
* FridgeBrilliance: As mentioned by the WordOfGod, Jacob ''never'' appears in the same frame as any of the visions of demons, [[spoiler: because that's exactly what they are: ''visions''.
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* NaughtyTentacles: A rare live-action example.
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* FanDisservice: Elizabeth Pena, dancing suggestively while sweating? Hot. Elizabeth Pena dancing suggestively while sweating whilist being [spoiler: being molested by some sort of demon?] Not so much.
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* FanDisservice: Elizabeth Pena, dancing suggestively while sweating? Hot. Elizabeth Pena dancing suggestively while sweating whilist being [spoiler: [[spoiler: being molested by some sort of demon?] demon?]] Not so much.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to director Adrian Lyne, the original screenplay contained a much more traditional, [[HieronymusBosch]]Bosch-esque]] depiction of hell. However, Lyne thought such images could make an audience laugh.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to director Adrian Lyne, the original screenplay contained a much more traditional, [[HieronymusBosch]]Bosch-esque]] [[HieronymusBosch Bosch-esque]] depiction of hell. However, Lyne thought audiences would find such images could make an audience laugh.imagery silly.
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*WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to director Adrian Lyne, the original screenplay contained a much more traditional, [[HieronymusBosch]]Bosch-esque]] depiction of hell. However, Lyne thought such images could make an audience laugh.
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* FreudWasRight: Many of the shocks come from sexual imagery, such as the "penis tentacle" on the bum in the subway car. Confirmed by [[WordOfGod Adrian Lyne]] in the DVD commentary.
