If you've played a survival horror game post the original Resident Evil, there's a chance that somewhere along the line that game will have been influenced - consciously or not - by a brilliant '90s movie called Jacob's Ladder.
If you've not heard of it, stay with me. If you have seen it, you might agree with Roger Ebert, who eloquently described Jacob's Ladder as a movie that "left me reeling with turmoil and confusion, with feelings of sadness and despair." He put it better than I can. It's a movie not easily forgotten.
Minor spoilers for Jacob's Ladder ahead.
Jacob's Ladder stars Tim Robbins as Jacob Singer, a Vietnam War veteran who was involved in a particularly horrific battle that's left him psychologically volatile. When we meet him he has married but since divorced, lost a son (played by a brutally cute Macauly Culkin) to tragedy, and has shacked up with a charming-but-tempestuous woman he met while working at the U.S. Post Office. Soon, he begins to experience bizarre hallucinations that send him into a spiral of paranoia.
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