Flatliners (1990)

Directed by

Joel Schumacher

Genre

drama film, horror film, science fiction film, psychological horror fiction, thriller film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

R

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 1,749 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Five medical students take turns inducing temporary death to experience the afterlife. Each experiment brings back haunting visions tied to their past sins.

tenseuneasygothicbroodingcontemplativesurrealatmosphericintense

What happens

Flatliners is a 1990 American science fiction psychological horror film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by Michael Douglas and Rick Bieber, and written by Peter Filardi. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon. The film is about five medical students who attempt to find out what lies beyond death by conducting clandestine experiments that produce near-death experiences. The film was shot on the campus of Loyola University Chicago between October 1989 and January 1990, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Sound Editing in 1990 (Charles L. Campbell and Richard C. Franklin). The film was theatrically released on August 10, 1990, by Columbia Pictures. It grossed $61 million at the box office. A follow-up film directed by Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev was released in September 2017, also featuring Sutherland in a starring role. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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