
Coma
Taste attributes: dramahorrormysterythrillerunsavouryheavyimaginaryenclosedcomplex relationshipfighting evilhuman spirit/resilience/survivalrescue/escape/jeopardysolving the riddle/not as it seems
"Imagine your life hangs by a thread. Imagine your body hangs by a wire. Imagine you're not imagining."
Boxlist takeA fantastical horror film that is weighty, unsavoury and contained. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.
Taste details
Pace: balanced · Originality: balanced · Tone: dark · Weight: heavy · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score
Quality rating
6.7 /10
TMDB · 261 votes
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What lines up
- Weightiness: Weighty / heavy, just how this profile likes it
- Setting / scale: Small / confined, just how this profile likes it
- Wholesomeness: Unsavoury, just how this profile likes it
What might not click
- Realism: Imaginary world, where this profile leans balanced realism
- Emotional punch: Balanced emotional punch, where this profile leans emotive / stirring
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Synopsis
A young female doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye.
Synopsis: TMDB
Taste Attributes
Characteristics
Where this title sits on each taste spectrum
Directed by
- Michael Crichton
Cast
- Geneviève Bujold
- Michael Douglas
- Elizabeth Ashley
- Richard Widmark
- Rip Torn
Details
- Genre
- Drama
- Year
- 1978
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Status
- Released
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Taste scores
- How we score
Similar in feel
Matched on pace, tone, themes and style, not just genre.











