| | | Some Lines Shouldn't Be Crossed.
Features: Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), German, Dubbed, French, Dubbed & Subtitled, Subtitled
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to intensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure.
"...a New Age "Nightmare on Elm Street"..." Joe Brown, Washington Post
"This is suspense to die from!...so exciting your heart might stop!" Joel Siegel, WABC-TV
"...worth watching for the atmosphere that Schumacher and de Bont evoke alone..." Richard Scheib, The SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review
Editor's Note
Hot-shot medical students embark on a series of daring experiments to get a peek at the face of death. Stopping their hearts until the vital signs register as flat lines, they then revive the subject. The group doesn't count on bringing anything back from their near-death experiences, but each one does.
Plot Summary
Using themselves as guinea pigs, a group of medical students decide to experiment with life after death and find out what's really awaiting them on the "other side." One by one they each take turns "flatlining" -- stopping their hearts and brains to create a condition of clinical death registered as a flat line on the EKG and EEG monitors.| They then use emergency procedures to resuscitate each other. Things get increasingly dangerous as the flatliners become more daring, attempting to remain dead for longer and longer periods of time. The leader of the group, plagued by a demon that has followed him back from the world beyond, soon discovers that there is a price to pay for tampering with the line between life and death.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, PCM 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: French, German Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Dubbed: French, German | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture And Sound |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 7/3/2007 |
| Running Time: 114 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1990 | | Catalog ID: 19507 | | UPC: 00043396195073 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, German Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovene, Swedish, Turkish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (1991) | | | Oscar, Charles L. Campbell, Richard C. Franklin, Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...Roberts combines beauty with a no-bull delivery that commands attention..." 08/09/1990 p.37New York Times
"...A stylish, eerie psychological horror film laced with wit....Smart, umnpretnetious entertainment..." 08/10/1990 p.C6 Variety 9 of 10
"Death, the ultimate rush, is the target experience for a group of daring young medical students who break on through to the other side - and live to tell about it. A cautionary tale that ends along fairly traditional horror-sci-fi lines, Flatliners is a strikingly original, often brilliantly visualized film from director Joel Schumacher and writer Peter Filardi...Premise is that daring doctor-in-training Nelson (Kiefer Sutherland) decides to make his mark on medicine by stopping his heart and brain ('flatlining', as the lack of vital signs produces a flat line on the EKG and EEG monitors) and then having himself brought back by the gifted medical students he recruits to help him...Sutherland, as always, registers real presence and pulls off a wildly demanding role, but the remarkably gifted Julia Roberts is the film's true grace note as the low-key, private and intensely focused Rachel."
Rolling Stone 8 of 10
"Superficially provocative and deeply silly, this film at least starts with an original idea from first-time screenwriter Peter Filardi...It's a trendy premise. And director Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys, St. Elmo's Fire) knows how to jazz up a trend. With the help of James Newton Howard's eerie score and cinematographer Jan De Bont's expert mix of shadow and light, Schumacher creates a mood of dread and wonder. He's also gathered a talented young cast...Roberts combines beauty with a no-bull delivery that commands attention. Her private moments with Bacon and Sutherland have an emotional intensity that is more compelling than all the hokum in the lab. By dodging the questions it raises about life after death, Flatliners ends up tripping on timidity. It's a movie about daring that dares nothing." - Peter Travers
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