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
Hellraiser 5: Inferno
Hellraiser 6: Hellseeker
The former is better.
The Uninvited (the rather poor remake of A Tale of Two Sisters)
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree about movies such as Passengers, The Sixth Sense and The Others. Those movies were merely told from different perspectives, that's all. (ie. the characters were deceased and didn't realize it yet).
Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.
^ agree mostly, however Passengers was more similar to JL than the others you mentioned, because in Passengers the protagonist was going through what appeared to be RL stuff but it all didn't happen, it was a process of accepting death. Similar to the later events in JL.
But in Sixth Sense and The Others most of the film depicts the dead characters interacting in some way with living people in the real present day, instead of it all being in the mind of the deceased.
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Chipping away at a mountain of pop culture trivia,
Darren Dirt.
I thought Hellseeker was better than Inferno.
I would say that the Hellraiser movies as a whole, especially the first one (and Inferno and Hellseeker, of course) are visually very similiar to Jacob's Ladder. Hellbound as well, with the bizarre brain surgery sequence (which they did again in Hellseeker).
Storywise, Inferno and Hellseeker are very similiar.
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Hellraiser and Jacob's Ladder also have similar lines about angels and demons.
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Altered States
A Scanner Darkly
The Manchurian Candidate
Memento
Butterfly EFFECT
Cube
Planet of the Apes
Moth an Prophecies
Rosemary's Baby
From Hell
Limit of the Willing Suspension of Disbelief: directly proportional to its awesomeness.
"Enter The Void" (2009)
Nilbog! It's goblin spelled backwards! This is their kingdom!
Lost highway
Mulholland Dr.
A beautiful mind
Inland empire.
Session 9 (WATCH THIS...)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (not as big of a fan but similar to Cube and others in this list. some great visuals)
Triangle (agreed. very underrated. flawed but also amazing)
Ink (very low budget movie. some flaws but overall mostly good)
The Cell (incredible visuals. like CRAZY incredible visuals. not the best movie overall IMHO but worth watching)
The Passersby (another Twilight Zone episode like Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge)
Constantine (more of an action movie but very familiar horror elements and style/themes also has Pruitt Taylor Vince in it!)
Identity (Different in some ways by the end, but it is very similar in its presentation; ALSO... Pruitt Taylor Vince!!!)
Coraline (I'm not kidding. Coraline is an amazing movie very much like these despite being a "kids" movie)
Eden Log (grossly underrated. very low budget movie. right in the family of these movies for sure)
Cheers. And good list everyone!
GREAT list yourself, masterandcommander!
And many of the titles you mention are of quite varied genres from each other but share a similar "feel" as you the viewer experiences the ride.
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Chipping away at a mountain of pop culture trivia,
Darren Dirt.
Thanks! This is one of my favorite genres; so much so I made my own but it is a post-apocalyptic movie lol
Cheers!
While the following movies certainly do feature themes and story premises similar to Jacob's Ladder, I want to make clear that I'm not necessarily recommending them all. Some of them I didn't enjoy much myself, so viewers beware. I'll include the IMDB plot synopsis, so that you don't have to look it up yourself:
Reeker - Strangers trapped at an eerie travel oasis in the desert must unravel the mystery behind their visions of dying people while they are preyed upon by a decaying creature.
Lost Things - Four teenagers escape to a deserted beach for a weekend of discovery, only to find that their dreams turn into nightmares.
Babycall - After a baby monitor picks up another channel, Anna begins reliving the nightmare she'd recently escaped.
Doo gae-eui dal/Two Moons - "Two Moons" depicts two women and a man that find themselves in a isolated area without a way out.
The Deaths of Ian Stone - The story of a man who is murdered each day by horrifying pursuers, only to wake up in slightly different lives to experience the terror of being murdered again.
Open Grave (not as supernaturally oriented as JL, but still similar in many other respects) - A man wakes up in the wilderness, in a pit full of dead bodies, with no memory and must determine if the murderer is one of the strangers who rescued him, or if he himself is the killer.
House Hunting - Two families go to an open house and can't leave.
Identity - Stranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rain-storm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they're being killed off one by one.
Chasing Sleep (this one is rather uneventful, except for one *truly* disturbing scene that'll stick with you for a long time) - A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
The Locals (2003) - Two best friends, Grant and Paul, hit the country road for a night of fun, but unfortunately take a short cut to their fate... where they meet the Locals.
Mulholland Drive (I love this one) - After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Blue Sunshine.
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