J.D. Barker

NEWS: Exclusive: Before you watch the Oz Perkins-directed crafty serial killer thriller Longlegs that won last weekend, you have to first go through a dizzying parade of derivative horror film trailers. Genre is hot again, especially titles with proven concepts.

Author J.D. Barker is using that opportunity to put the defibrillator paddles to the chilling 1990 horror film Flatliners. Barker’s been tapped to breathe new life into the franchise that began in 1990 with Joel Schumacher directing a bright young ensemble that included Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, Billy Baldwin and Oliver Platt. More…

NEWS: What happens when the eerie aspects of suspense thrillers, chilling horror elements, and a dash of speculative fiction are mixed? The answer is J.D. Barker, an author whose brilliance pierces through literary boundaries. More…

NEWS: Marking a new development for fans of psychological horror and suspense, bestselling author J.D. Barker has been selected to reinvigorate the Flatliners franchise with an upcoming novel.

The franchise has captivated audiences since its 1990 debut as a film. The same year, Leonore Fleischer adapted the first “Flatliners” novel based on the original screenplay. However, Barker’s upcoming work will be its first literary expansion. More…

NEWS: The most star-studded B-movie of the ‘90s is making a comeback. Again. After spawning a 2017 sequel/reboot that nobody remembers, the original Flatliners is once again trying to come back from the dead. Although the first film came and went in 1990, this Joel Schumacher-directed oddity — which starred Julia Roberts, Kimberly Scott, Oliver Platt, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin, and Kiefer Sutherland — has simmered for the past three decades as the truest of cult classics. With mixed-to-bad reviews at the time, Flatliners is one of those horror/sci-fi movies that a few generations saw on VHS, and never got out of our heads.

And now, apparently, Flatliners is trying to get back into our heads with a roundabout reboot. According to Deadline, a sequel to the original film will now become a new book by J.D. Barker, and that book could maybe become a movie. Again. More…