Jacob's Ladder(1990)

This film is suggested for ages 18+ and may contain violence or horror elements, dark supernatural themes. Biblical themes explored include {"reference":"Genesis 28:12","theme":"The ladder between worlds","description":"The film's title invokes Jacob's Bethel dream directly: the boundary between earthly and heavenly reality made temporarily permeable, with beings moving between the two. Jacob Singer's visions are his experience of this boundary as it applies to his own life and death."}, {"reference":"Psalm 23:4","theme":"The valley of the shadow","description":"Jacob's increasingly terrifying journey through his disintegrating perception is a passage through the valley of the shadow of death — not a punishment but the terrain of dying, through which the soul must walk before arriving at the table prepared for it."}, {"reference":"1 Corinthians 13:12","theme":"Seeing through a glass darkly","description":"Jacob's visions — distorted, fragmented, threatening — are the form that reality takes when perceived by a soul in the process of death. Paul's image of seeing in a mirror dimly, contrasted with seeing face to face, maps the film's visual grammar."}, {"reference":"Revelation 21:4","theme":"All tears wiped away","description":"The film's final image — Jacob's ascent up the staircase with his son toward light — enacts John's vision: God wiping away every tear, death being no more, the former things having passed away. The horror resolves into peace at the moment of final release."}. We recommend parents review content before watching with younger children.