Elizabeth Peña

Date of Birth

1959-09-23

Date of Death

2014-10-14

Place of Birth

Elizabeth, New Jersey, USA

Known for

Transamerica, Rush Hour, Jacob’s Ladder, Mother and Child, *batteries not included

Most Popular Stories

A 4K restoration of the trippy 1990 horror thriller Jacob's Ladder, starring Tim Robbins, is getting a national theatrical release

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Jacob’s Ladder 4K restoration is getting a national theatrical release

Posted 11 months ago

A 4K restoration of the trippy 1990 horror thriller Jacob's Ladder, starring Tim Robbins, is getting a national theatrical release

The next Blu-ray release in the Vestron Video Collector's Series is Kathryn Bigelow's 1990 thriller Blue Steel, starring Jamie Lee Curtis

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The Arrow in the Head Show digs into the Jamie Lee Curtis thriller Blue Steel

Posted 3 years ago

The Arrow in the Head Show hosts John "The Arrow" Fallon and Lance Vlcek cover the Jamie Lee Curtis thriller Blue Steel in the new episode

The new episode of the Best Horror Movie You Never Saw video series looks back at Adrian Lyne's 1990 film Jacob's Ladder.

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Jacob’s Ladder (1990) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

Posted 4 years ago

Theodore It’s time for a new episode of our Best Horror Movie You Never Saw video series (released under the Revisited banner), and in this one we’re looking back at Jacob’s Ladder (watch it HERE), the 1990 horror thriller directed by Fatal...

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Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: The Incredibles, Stitch, Superman

Posted 12 years ago

Theodore Some cliche somewhere said that 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have...

Jacob’s Ladder- Horror Movie Review- (Day 29 of 31)- October Massacre

Posted 12 years ago

PLOT: After returning from Vietnam, a deeply disturbed war veteran tries to re-assimilate himself back into normalcy. However, as he becomes increasingly plagued by tormenting visions and mysteriously altered perceptions, an irreparably mortifying truth about the man’s true fate is...

R.I.P. Jacob’s Ladder actress Elizabeth Pena dies at 55

Posted 12 years ago

Actress Elizabeth Pena, who co-starred in LA BAMBA and Adrian Lyne's disturbing classic JACOB'S LADDER, has passed away at the age of 55 in Los Angeles after suffering from a brief illness, according to Variety. Pena has appeared in many...

Brett Ratner and Scrubs creator rebooting Rush Hour as a TV series

Posted 12 years ago

RUSH HOUR 4 is dead. Long live RUSH HOUR the television hourlong action series! Brett Ratner, the director who inexplicably keeps getting big budget productions greenlit, has finally found a way to tell a new RUSH HOUR story without Jackie...

Jacob’s Ladder will get the remake treatment

Posted 13 years ago

JACOB’S LADDER messed up my childhood. I snuck a VHS copy of the movie from a family friend and proceeded to watch the hellish hallucinations of Jacob Singer with a less than full understanding of the film’s plot and twist...