Vietnam vet Jacob Singer's life begins to take a horrifying shape when he begins to see demonic creatures and reality itself begins to wrap before his very eyes.
This is a terrifying movie. The best thing about it is its direction, which focuses in on the chaos of Jacob's terror as the people he loves, both dead and alive, begin to take on different, hellish forms and sift in and out through so that he doesn't know if he's awake or asleep. Neither does the audience.
The coloring of the movie is very well-done, it's very gritty, almost as if the camera lens is rubbed in dirt and cobwebs, and the violence is shadowy, so you're not quite sure if what you're seeing is human or demon. One of the most frightening scenes is when after being thrown from a car, Jacob is taken to a hospital where the doctors say to "take him down to X-ray." Suddenly, the atmosphere changes from normal, white-light hospital to flickering, filthy bulbs, a rickety hospital cart upon which our poor hero is strapped, and a hall populated by misshapen "patients" who alternately bash their own heads on bloody windows and strewn with body parts. You're just as confused and scared as Jacob is.
The movie is a little slow, but that adds to the suspense as you climb up Jacob's ladder (ha ha ha) to the shattering climax.
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