Coma: Nail-Biting and Resonant
Exploring the still relevant feminist undercurrents of Michael Crichton’s riveting 1978 medical conspiracy thriller
NOTE: Contains some spoilers
Long before he wrote novels about genetically engineered dinosaurs, Michael Crichton wrote and directed Coma, adapting the novel by Robin Cook in 1978. The result was a first-rate thriller; a nerve-shredding humdinger for once worthy of the oft ill-deployed term “Hitchcockian”. Not many suspense films deserved to b…
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