Flatliners (2017)

Flatliners (2017) is a clinical failure that wastes Ellen Page and Diego Luna in a script adding nothing to Joel Schumacher's cult 1990 thriller. Director Niels Arden Oplev traded Gothic visual flair for generic horror, and the $20 million budget earned just $19.5 million globally, a 2.5% loss that outperforms #7 Point Break's 65% box-office hemorrhage but still flops. The original's 48% Rotten Tomatoes score at least captures a cult audience, while this remake's 16% rating—32 percentage points lower—proves its irrelevance. With no new ideas, the film reduces near-death exploration to bland jump scares, missing the eerie tension that made the first a midnight-movie staple.