Coma (1978)

I watched Coma as part of a Criterion Channel series called 1970s Horror because... like...who knew – Michael Crichton directed a movie??? This stars Genevieve Bujold, who is compelling and beautiful and should have been the star of more films. She's so great! The movie itself is not a horror movie at all but is more like a thriller with science fiction overtones – akin to Frankhenheimer's Seconds. I quite liked it, but it's a straight genre picture except for the really great intertextual nods to Sidney Gilliat's Green for Danger. Michael Douglas and Richard Widmark are good, too, and there are lots of cool people in tiny roles, including Ed Harris, Lois Chiles, Tom Selleck, and Rip Torn.