Movies like Jacob's Ladder
Jacob's Ladder is most extreme on TONE — a bleak, unforgiving tone at 008. Everything below is a movie that lands near it on the same six axes, which is a different question from "what else is tagged horror". Ranked by distance, closest first.
That is Jacob's Ladder’s fingerprint. The list below is scored against it, not against genre.
Possession
Andrzej Zulawski · 1981 · Film
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
84% shared signal
Don't Look Now
Nicolas Roeg · 1973 · Film
Shares dream logic.
81% shared signal
The Shining
Stanley Kubrick · 1980 · Film
Shares analog-era texture.
79% shared signal
Candyman
Bernard Rose · 1992 · Film
Shares a bleak, unforgiving tone.
79% shared signal
Videodrome
David Cronenberg · 1983 · Film
Shares dream logic.
75% shared signal
Carrie
Brian De Palma · 1976 · Film
Shares analog-era texture.
74% shared signal
The Ring
Gore Verbinski · 2002 · Film
Shares slow-burn dread.
70% shared signal
The Lighthouse
Robert Eggers · 2019 · Film
70% shared signal
Session 9
Brad Anderson · 2001 · Film
Shares slow-burn dread.
69% shared signal
Ringu
Hideo Nakata · 1998 · Film
69% shared signal
It Follows
David Robert Mitchell · 2014 · Film
69% shared signal
Kill List
Ben Wheatley · 2011 · Film
68% shared signal
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