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Movies like this?

posted 15 years ago by apa-86
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i saw this movie recently and those 1h 40 min or so just flew by, i cant remember last time a movie kept me glued to the sofa like that.are there any other movies with similar themes to it or something like that?

[–] bernard-maximilian 12 years ago

Check these out: Eraserhead, The Holy Mountain, Insidious, Sinister (2012), The Shining, The Exorcist, Mulholland Drive, Suspiria, The Blair Witch Project and Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. All of these movies are very bizarre, creepy, disturbing, scary and downright crazy! Also they are very similar to this movie. :)

[–] daftspunk 12 years ago

This movie reminded me of Shutter Island and Abre Los Ojos(Open Your Eyes)..and i'd recommend you watch these movies.

[–] linearnorth 12 years ago

Sublime and Johnny Got His Gun are both ace suggestions, but I can't believe nobody's mentioned ALTERED STATES! What an awesome film!

[–] Lankasterss 12 years ago

There is another movie, one guy wakes in the hospital in coma, he has nightmares, tortured by the doctors, anyone know the name?

[–] katorela 12 years ago

lankasterssj,

"The I Inside" (with Ryan Phillippe) ? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325596/

[–] cm-parham 12 years ago

Watched Jacob's Ladder last night for the first time in 20 years and loved it even more than I remembered..
While racking my brains for comparables, I remembered this Ryan Phillippe movie from a few years ago and was growing more and more dismayed as I read through this thread as no one had mentioned it and I thought I might never recall it's title.
Thanks lankastersj! Of all the movies listed, this is the one that sticks out in my mind as the one that most closely resembles JL.
I have it cued up to watch tonight and will see if my memory serves me correctly.

[–] MrMcArony 12 years ago

I guess in terms of style, you might want to check out the films of Alan Parker (particularly Angel Heart)and maybe Adrian Lyne, a lot of the crew and people involved are the same.

[–] marjolein84 12 years ago

Memento, 12 monkeys, inception, vanilla sky :-)

[–] overninethousand 12 years ago

Hey guys. Thanks to this thread, I've compiled the list of similar (and inspired) films for the Wikipedia article while re-writing it for a GA.

The films are:

A Pure Formality
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Angel Heart
Brazil
Carnival of Souls
Dead End
Deathdream
Donnie Darko
Enter the Void
Johnny Got His Gun
Open Your Eyes
Passengers
Room 6
Silent Hill
Soul Survivors
Stay
Sublime
The I Inside
The Jacket
The Others
The Seventh Seal
The Sixth Sense
Vanilla Sky

[–] pmdawn 12 years ago

"Bug" by William Friedkin

"Keane" (2004)

"Leave" (2011)

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[–] Icecutter 12 years ago

as others have said I think The Machinist is kinda like this film, as in if you loved Jacbos Ladder you will also love The Machinist