10 Horror Movies That Purposefully Mess With Your Head

Released in 1990, Lolita ruiner/ otherwise pretty solid director Adrian Lyne's Jacob's Ladder was a late addition to the growing pantheon of anti-war films centring around the shell-shocked lives of disillusioned Vietnam veterans returning to their home country and attempting to eke out an existence after the atrocities of America's invasion.

This nightmarish story of a veteran played by The Shawshank Redemption's Tim Robbins may not be as viscerally disturbing as Troma's trashier Combat Shock, but the film nonetheless packs a powerful if initially hard-to-decipher punch.

Plagued by visions of demonic entities is actually a re-telling of Ambrose Bierce’s seminal short story An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, with its strangeness being explained by the revelation that (spoilers, obviously) Jacob never actually made it out of Vietnam, and these last few years are actually just his fading mind’s dying dreams.