Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder (2019)

Jacob Singer (Michael Ealy) hat es nur mit Glück lebendig aus dem Afghanistan-Krieg zurück in die Heimat geschafft. Sein Versuch, wieder im normalen Leben anzukommen, gestaltet sich jedoch als schwieriger als gedacht. Denn fast nichts ist mehr so wie es einst war: Nachdem er seinen totgeglaubten Bruder Isaac (Jesse Williams) wiedertrifft, beginnt für ihn ein bizarrer Horrortrip, in dem Halluzination und Wirklichkeit zunehmend miteinander zu verschwimmen scheinen. Immer häufiger nimmt er bestialische Kreaturen wahr, die direkt aus der tiefsten Hölle zu entstammen scheinen und sich in den verborgenen Winkeln des Alltags herumtreiben. Täglich wird seine Realität stärker von den dämonischen Wesen bevölkert und hinter jeder Ecke scheinen Gefahren zu lauern, die seinen traumatisierenden Kriegserlebnissen in nichts nachstehen.

Erscheinungsdatum
2019-08-23
TMDB
4.4 / 10 (92)
Laufzeit
1 Std. 29 Min.
Genres
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Regie
David M. Rosenthal

Besetzung

Wissenswertes

  • Basiert auf: Jacob’s Ladder – In der Gewalt des Jenseits

Jacob's Ladder is a 2019 American psychological horror film directed by David M. Rosenthal and written by Jeff Buhler and Sarah Thorp. A remake of the 1990 film Jacob's Ladder, it stars Michael Ealy, Jesse Williams, Nicole Beharie, Karla Souza, and Guy Burnet. It was broadcast on DISH Network on July 25, 2019, before the theatrical release on August 23, 2019, by Vertical Entertainment, to mostly negative reviews.

Production

In 2013, The Midnight Meat Train screenwriter Jeff Buhler was reported to be writing a script for LD Entertainment's new version of Jacob's Ladder. According to The Hollywood Reporter, "the producers are looking to make something more akin to an homage and not mimic the original. The plan is to contemporize the story with new situations and characters but still maintain a story that examines issues and poses existential questions".

James Foley was attached as director in November 2013. By March 2016, Foley was no longer attached to the project and was replaced by David M. Rosenthal. Rewrites were provided by Sarah Thorp when Buhler was unavailable to return.

Buhler said that since, due to two recent wars, the American "cultural understanding of the experience of warfare and what it does to people mentally" has become "a completely different place than it was" in 1990, he decided to not be "necessarily going to the same conclusion, and finding a new way to give the audience an experience that is similar in terms of impact and feeling, but that doesn't play the same tune.

In March 2016, it was announced The Perfect Guy star Michael Ealy had signed on to star in and executive-produce the film. In April 2016, Jesse Williams and Nicole Beharie joined the cast of the film, followed by Guy Burnet and Karla Souza in June. Williams described the film as "a total re-imagining of the cult classic".

Principal photography began on May 2, 2016. By June, filming took place at the Avondale station in Decatur, Georgia and Peachtree Center in Atlanta. Production had concluded by August of that year. The first official trailer for the film was released on July 1, 2019.

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