Jacob's Ladder/Fridge

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  • Fridge Brilliance: As mentioned by the Word of God, Jacob never appears in the same frame as any of the visions of demons, because that's exactly what they are: visions.
  • After seeing the end of Jacob's Ladder, a viewer might suddenly realize that all the scenes supposedly set in "the present day" (late 1980s) don't have any of the technology that was fairly common: the radios and stereos look somewhat old-fashioned, there's no computers at all (and even in the 1980s in offices they were becoming prevalent)...in other words, exactly what one would expect from someone imagining the whole thing from two decades earlier.
    • We hear "Lady Marmalade" at the disco, a song that didn't come out till 1974.