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- Five medical students, obsessed by what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring experiment: by stopping their hearts for short periods, each triggers a near-death experience - giving them a firsthand account of the afterlife.
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Jun 15, 2017 · Medical students turn their own bodies into science experiments in the new horror thriller Flatliners as they attempt to discover what happens after death. In the investigations featured in the...
Aug 10, 1990 · Flatliners: Directed by Joel Schumacher. With Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin. Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.
- (91K)
- Joel Schumacher
- R
- Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Curiosity Killed The Cat
- Consequences
- Breaking Free of Karma
- How Flatliners Reimagines Hell
- Side Note: The Death Dream Theory
- Finding God
Flatliners sits somewhere between Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and R. L. Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Like those Gothic horror stories, Flatliners is about scientists who push the boundaries of the impossible … and sin against God and society as a result. Here, Nelson Wright is the ‘mad scientist’ itching to discover what lies ...
The flatliners want to know if near-death tales of bright lights and out-of-body experiences are true. But what they find appears to be hell, i.e., a place where they pay for their sins. Resuscitation breaks them out of the bad place – but they can’t shrug off their punishment so easily. Their sins follow them into reality, where the consequences p...
David breaks free of karma first. Note, though, that he doesn’t engineer this in any particular way. As an adult, he simply acknowledges the way he behaved was harmful, and makes amends. Saying sorry to Winnie Hicks ends his suffering. Whether it makes any real difference to the girl he terrorised is a more complex question. Either way, the film’s ...
Traditional models of the underworld are reassuringly communal places, aren’t they? That is, medieval illustrations of hell may be frightening, but at least they’re crowded. When Dante describes hell in The Divine Comedy, there are so many souls down there it’s like a house party. The damned, we’ve long held, suffer together. We still cling to this...
Flatliners shows us four people whose near-death experiences make them re-evaluate their world view. But another way of inspecting the film is as Nelson’s death dreamfrom start to finish. It begins with Nelson going under and ends when he wakes up. In between, he inhabits a curiously empty world. He lives in a city devoid of bustling side walks, an...
Like the deluded lovers in Alfred Hitchocks’ Rope, Nelson thinks he’s special. Intellect and daring make him an übermensch – a ‘super man’, or superior being. Also like Hitchcocks’ killers, he believes that gives him the right to murder. After his first near-death experience, Nelson feels even more god-like. “Can you hear the traffic on the lake sh...
Mar 5, 2024 · The film follows a group of medical students as they embark on a dangerous experiment: temporarily stopping their hearts to explore the mysteries of the afterlife. As their experiments become more intense, they begin to encounter eerie and terrifying consequences.
Medical student Nelson Wright convinces classmates Joe Hurley, David Labraccio, Rachel Manus, and Randy Steckle to help him discover what lies beyond death. Nelson flatlines for one minute before his classmates resuscitate him. While "dead", he sees a boy he bullied as a child, Billy Mahoney.
- $26 million
- James Newton Howard
- August 10, 1990 (United States)
Five medical students decide to embark on a dangerous experiment to pierce the veil between life and death in an attempt to learn more about the afterlife. Under their temporary deaths they experience strange visions, and memories long since forgotten.
Aug 10, 1990 · So they devise a dangerous experiment in which, one after another, they'll deliberately create a condition of clinical death, sample the afterlife experience, and then be brought back to life by emergency measures.
