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.
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.
Color by DeLuxe; shot in Panavision widescreen.
Stonebridge Group is Michael Douglas's production company.
Academy award Nominations: Best Sound Effects Editing.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Letterbox - 1.85
Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Surround
Production Designer
Eugenio Zanetti:
Director of Photography
Jan de Bont: Director of Photography, SPEED (1994)
Review 1:
"...Roberts combines beauty with a no-bull delivery that commands attention..."
Source: Rolling Stone
p.37 08/09/1990
Review 2:
"...A stylish, eerie psychological horror film laced with wit....Smart, umnpretnetious entertainment..."
Source: New York Times
p.C6 08/10/1990
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