
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
Leave your thoughts about Flatliners.
| Washington PostJoe BrownFlatliners is a New Age Nightmare on Elm Street, with anti-drug propaganda and heavy-handed messages about atonement and reconciliation. |
| The New York TimesCaryn JamesFlatliners is a stylish, eerie psychological horror film laced with wit, a movie that thrives on its characters' guilty secrets and succeeds on the strength of the director Joel Schumacher's flair for just this sort of smart, unpretentious entertainment. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyFlatliners is a heart-stopping, breathtakingly sumptuous haunted house of a movie. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertFlatliners is an original, intelligent thriller, well-directed by Joel Schumacher. I only wish it had been restructured so we didn't need to go through the same crisis so many times. |
| Henderson Home News (Henderson, NV)Kevin FiddlerCreepy, almost as creepy as Keifer Sutherland's five'o'clock shadow |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrIt's much to Schumacher's credit that Flatliners, for all of its crazy excess, does not turn into camp. |
| Laramie Movie ScopeRobert RotenThere is genuine suspense when some of the haunting spirits threaten to turn deadly and some of the students look like they won't come back from the dead after all. |
| Common Sense MediaBrian Costello'90s thriller about near-death experiences is very violent. |
| The Seattle TimesJohn HartlTheir performances lend the movie a touch of class, even if they can't make up for the superficial writing and Schumacher's anything-for-a-jolt direction. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonYoung medical students intentionally kill and resuscitate each other, thereby gaining knowledge of the afterlife, which turns out to look a lot like... MTV. |