What, were you expecting this?
I felt compelled to revisit the original Flatliners trailer after watching the one for Niels Arden Oplev’s remake of Joel Schumacher’s 1990 cult thriller. It’s actually surprising how vastly different they are, which I guess is a good thing? We always beg for filmmakers to try something new when revisiting an old property but that doesn’t guarantee it’s going to be any good. 27 years later, Schumacher’s Flatliners, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, and Julia Roberts as four Medical students who experiment on “near death” experiences, is still awfully unnerving. The film’s original trailer is gritty, earthy, and wickedly lo-fi, not to mention quite scary. Dig it.