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Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Unique in the genre.
Just sat through this again for the umpteenth time, doing what I enjoy doing best now with it. Watching someone else watch for the first time. There's not much to be added to the many voices here singing its praises. Only, it occurred as I was watching, for me this film is the Blade Runner of the horror genre.
The Terror (1963)
A curious relic.
I voted 5 because I have no idea. Allow me to build some context:
I was young and had just moved to Barcelona. I was sharing a flat with an old NY university roommate and friend in the rundown but exciting barrio Raval. We were both sick and sleeping on couches in the living room at random hours, be it day or night, with the television constantly burning.
I awoke sometime around 3am and this movie was just beginning. And it wasn't dubbed into Spanish!
I threw a boot at my friend and made him watch it with me. For an hour and a bit we were cackling like fevered demons.
Watch this when sick, in a foreign land, in the middle of the night. You'll better appreciate the broody darkness of it then.
Otherwise I strongly suspect it stinks.