Flatliners

REVIEW
This psychological thriller, about a group of medical students who embark on a series of other-worldly experiments, brims with a dark sense of dread and classic horror. Sutherland is ideally cast as an intern who dreams up the idea of killing himself so that his fellow classmates can bring him back to life -- thereby experiencing death. One by one, they go under, for longer and longer periods, but as they return from death, these modern-day Frankensteins find that they don't always return alone. Filled with psychological underpinnings, Flatliners is as much about healing childhood wounds as it is a horror film. The excellent production design consists of dimly lit hall which overflow with murky details of gargoyle-like statuary evoking universal images of Gothic terror.