2017 · drama · horror · thriller
Flatliners
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev1h 51m2017
Five medical students, hoping to understand the mystery of what lies beyond life, embark on a dangerous experiment. When their hearts are stopped for a short period of time, they have a near-death experience…
Our read: Flatliners (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · horror · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- cold
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