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Flatliners will be released on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on August 2 via Arrow Video. Gary Pullin designed the cover art for the 1990 sci-fi horror thriller; the original poster is on the reverse side.
Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys, Batman Forever) directs from a script by Peter Filardi (The Craft). Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, William Baldwin, Oliver Platt, and Kevin Bacon star.
Flatliners has been newly restored in 4K from the original negative, approved by director of photography Jan de Bont, with Dolby Vision and Lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 surround soundtracks. Special features are listed below.
Special features:
- Audio commentary by critics Bryan Reesman and Max Evry (new)
- Interview with screenwriter Peter Filardi (new)
- Interview with director of photography Jan de Bont and chief lighting technician Edward Ayer (new)
- Interview with first assistant director John Kretchmer (new)
- Interview with production designer Eugenio Zanetti and art director Larry Lundy (new)
- Interview with composer James Newton Howard and orchestrator Chris Boardman (new)
- Interview with costume designer Susan Becker (new)
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
- Booklet featuring new writing on the film by film historians Amanda Reyes and Peter Tonguette (first pressing only)
At the University Hospital School of Medicine, five ambitious students subject themselves to a daring experiment: to temporarily induce their own deaths, hoping to glimpse the afterlife before being brought back to life. But as competition within the group intensifies and their visions of the world beyond increasingly bleed into their waking lives, they’re about to learn that the greatest threat comes not from the spirit world but from the long-suppressed secrets of their own pasts.
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Seriously though. Joel Schumacher was SO GAY and I’m actually really angry that his gay memory is being disrespected by this ridiculous Heterosexual Artwork especially since Nelson x Rachel wasn’t even a THING?
(025) → Twelve(2010)
director: Joel Schumacher
starring: Chace Crawford, Rory Culkin, Philip Ettinger, Esti Ginzburg, 50 Cent
rated: R
synopsis: A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin’s murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.
tomatometer: 4%; 33% (rotten.)
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The Batmen.
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What Might Have Been
During the filming of Batman & Robin, Warner execs gave the go ahead for a sequel set for a 1999 release. This sequel, Batman Unchained, was going to be a step back from the cartoon direction the franchise took and go back to the darker Burton style. The Scarecrow was to cause Batman to hallucinate and see villains of his past including Joker, Penguin, and Catwoman shown through archival footage of the Burton films. Below was the expected/ proposed cast:
Print ad for the VHS release of Batman Forever(1995)
