In this film, a Vietnam war veteran named Jacob Singer (played by Tim Robbins) is finding his life become a series of unending nightmares. As a result of being administered a mind control drug referred to as "Ladder" during his tour in Vietnam he starts having flashbacks of a terrifying and potent nature. The movie opens with Jacob and his soldier buddies sitting in the Mekong Delta smoking a fat joint. It is implied that that is how they got the drug. Anyways, the enemy attacks, the whole troop goes crazy, and they basically start tearing each other to pieces. Jake takes a bayonet in the guts and the movie flashes to his adult life in NYC. I tried to watch this film on acid at a friend's house in '98. A group of us tried to watch it and we got just about to the part with the creepy old lady on the subway before we shut it off. In any case, Jake gets the job as a postal worker and marries a demonic mexican. He finds himself being attacked by malevolent and strange creatures who seem to be in some way connected to the government and the drug given to him and his buddies in Vietnam all those years ago. This movie has a surprise ending which I do not wish to give away, and to describe it further would be to risk that. What I can say for sure is that I do not recommend watching this movie on acid. The events of this movie are partially modelled on reality. The CIA did a series of experiments very similar to this called MKUltra in the 1960s.
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