Episode 40: "Jacob's Ladder"

Continuing their dive into Cosmic Horror, this week our hosts watched Jacob’s Ladder. Decades ahead of its time, this film pioneered the “mind-blowing ending” that would later be done to death in the late 90s / early 00s. While it left many critics scratching their heads at the time, its disturbing and imagery and ambiguity would fit right at home with today’s crop of more cerebral indie horror films of the last decade.