HORROR In The Year 1990: FLATLINERS

“You bring the equipment, I’ll bring my balls.” — Nelson Wright

My Wife and I sat down to watch FLATLINERS the other night and record a commentary on our podcast Just Like The Movies. On the show, we do full movie commentaries for movies that reflect whatever is going on in the world at that particular time. Unfortunately, this time it was due to the death of director Joel Schumacher earlier that day.

Ironically, I had watched his film BATMAN FOREVER the day before and FALLING DOWN the week before that. It’s astonishing how fearless Schumacher was in his craft. Did it always work out? Well, he made BATMAN and ROBIN. So no, it does not. But like anything else in life had it worked out every time what would be the reward of having it ever work out at all?

FLATLINERS fits right in with Schumacher’s other films in that it fucking goes for it, man.

The cast alone is holy shit worthy with Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Oliver Platt and William Baldwin as a group of friends and medical up and comers who become obsessed with the macabre of death, the existence of the afterlife and the fame for whoever discovers it first. They would take turns meeting at night in what looked like a haunted and abandoned version of the library Morgan Freeman…