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The Lazarus Effect

Play trailer 2:20 Poster for The Lazarus Effect PG-13 Released Feb 27, 2015 1h 23m Horror Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
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Medical researcher Frank (Mark Duplass), his fiancee Zoe (Olivia Wilde) and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.
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The Lazarus Effect has a talented cast and the glimmer of an interesting idea, but wastes it all on insipid characters and dull, recycled plot points.

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Candice Frederick Reel Talk Online The Lazarus Effect merely coasts by on a very thin script that is really just a placeholder to get to what is obviously its larger purpose: to frighten the audience so much that we forget that we're watching a bad movie. Rated: D+ Sep 1, 2017 Full Review Lenika Cruz The Atlantic Given the low-budget film's bottle-episode feel, horror fans could've gotten extra mileage out of a disorienting and original psychological treatment. Jan 21, 2016 Full Review Ben Sachs Chicago Reader It's thematically thin but competently made and good for a few scares. Mar 6, 2015 Full Review Keith Garlington Keith & the Movies It simply does nothing original and leaves no real lasting effect. Rated: 2.5/5 Aug 23, 2022 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review With a runtime of 83 minutes, the movie is all build-up, while the payoff resorts to silly horror conventions, abandoning whatever scientific goodwill it had established. Rated: 1/4 Jun 9, 2022 Full Review Richard Crouse Richard Crouse What it doesn't have is the sense of fun necessary to pull off the cheesy moments or the scares to sell it as a full-blown horror story. Rated: 2/5 Feb 2, 2021 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis Medical researcher Frank (Mark Duplass), his fiancee Zoe (Olivia Wilde) and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.
Director
David Gelb
Producer
Jason Blum, Jimmy Miller, Cody Zwieg
Screenwriter
Luke Dawson, Jeremy Slater
Distributor
Relativity Media
Production Co
Blumhouse, Mosaic
Rating
PG-13 (Some Sexual References|Intense Seq of Horror Violence|Terror)
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Feb 27, 2015, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 2, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$25.8M
Runtime
1h 23m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital
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