History YMMV / JacobSLadder

* RetroactiveRecognition:
** [[Film/HomeAlone Macauley Culkin]] has an uncredited role as Jacob's son.
** How about Creator/LewisBlack showing up for three seconds as the doctor who comes to help when Jacob has his mortally high fever?
** Eriq La Salle (''Series/{{ER}}'''s Dr. Benton) and Creator/VingRhames play two of Jacob's fellow veterans, before either of their actors had those roles.
** Creator/JasonAlexander also has a small role as the lawyer.
** When Jacob is running a high fever and freaking out, [[Music/TenaciousD Kyle Gass]] helps fill his tub with ice.

* TheWoobie: Jacob.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Louis' subdued BigDamnHeroes moment when he marches into the hospital demanding to see Jacob, calling out the staff for their harsh treatment of his patient and going so far as to threaten them with a crutch before wheeling Jacob out of the hospital for his gentler treatment. Doubly so [[spoiler: if you accept the "Louis is an angel" theory, as he's doing this ''to other angels'' by siding with a man who's dying and needs to let go]].

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome. There are no post-production effects in the movie. The very horrifying use of the {{undercrank}} is done by shooting an actor slowly waving their head at 4fps, so when played normally, would produce the now infamous effect.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Maurice Jarre's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbiq6xaEYn4 haunting score]].

* AwardSnub: No noms for Creator/TimRobbins, Elizabth Pena, Maurice Jarre's score or Bruce Joel Rubin's screenplay.

* AwardSnub: No noms for Creator/TimRobbins, Elizabth Pena, Maurice Jarre's score or Robin's screenplay.

* AwardSnub: No noms for Robbins, Pena, Jarre's score or Robin's screenplay.

* AwesomeMusic: Maurice Jarre's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbiq6xaEYn4 haunting score]].

** FridgeHorror if you know that the RealitySubtext is that the actor was a Vietnam veteran who was in those triage tents and had seen ''many'' soldiers die like that.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Countless movies have taken their inspiration from the theme, undercranking, mood and dialogue from ''Jacob's Ladder''. Heck, ''Franchise/SilentHill'' is Evidence A.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome. There are ''no'', repeat, '''''no''''' optical effects in the film. Everything is "real". To elaborate, there are no post-production effects in this movie. The very horrifying use of the {{undercrank}}? Done by shooting an actor slowly waving their head at 4fps, so when played normally, would produce the now infamous effect.

* 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.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Countless movies have taken their inspiration from the theme, undercranking, mood and dialog from ''Jacob's Ladder''. Heck, ''Franchise/SilentHill'' is Evidence A.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome. There are ''no'', repeat, '''''no''''' optical effects in the film. Everything is "real".
** To elaborate, there are no post-production effects in this movie. The very horrifying use of the {{undercrank}}? Done by shooting an actor slowly waving their head at 4fps, so when played normally, would produce the now infamous effect.

** To elaborate, there are no post-production effects in this movie. The very horrifying use of the Undercrank? Done by shooting an actor slowly waving their head at 4fps, so when played normally, would produce the now infamous effect.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome. There are no, repeat, '''''no''''' optical effects in the film. Everything is "real".

* Narm: Right at the end of the movie, when we see Jacob [[spoiler: spasm on in the hospital tent in Vietnam before dying]], there's a guy at a typewriter who looks up, sees this, then kind of shrugs and continues typing. His nonchalant reaction makes this quite comical.

** To elaborate, there are no post-production effects in this movie. The very horrifying use of the Undercrank? Done by shooting an actor slowly waving their hade at 4fps, so when played normally, would produce the now infamous effect.

* Narm: Right at the end of the movie, when we see Jacob [[spoiler: spasm on in the hospital tent in Vietnam before dying]], there's a guy at a typewriter who looks up, sees Jacob die, then kind of shrugs and continues typing. His nonchalant reaction makes this quite comical.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Countless movies have taken their inspiration from the theme, undercranking, mood and dialog from ''Jacob's Ladder''. Heck, ''SilentHill'' is Evidence A.

* * SeinfeldIsUnfunny: Countless movies have taken their inspiration from the theme, undercranking, mood and dialog from ''Jacob's Ladder''. Heck, ''SilentHill'' is Evidence A.

* UncannyValley: A lot of the demons.