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The Lazarus Effect

2015

David Gelb

Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Evan Peters, Sarah Bolger ...

3.9

2,097

Horror. Thriller The Lazarys Effect follows a group of researchers led by Frank and his fiancé Zoe who've achieved the unimaginable - bringing the dead back to life. After a successful, yet unsanctioned, trial on a newly deceased animal, the team is ready to unveil their breakthrough to the world. When the dean of their university learns of their underground experiments, their project is unexpectedly shut down and their materials confiscated.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"You've seen this movie before with peppier actors, and not tethered to a visually uninteresting set that looks like a remainder from a 10-year-old episode of CSI (...) Rating: ★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Geoff Berkshire Variety	“Lazarus” shamelessly steals from superior genre efforts and lacks any distinguishing traits beyond a wildly overqualified cast"	NEG
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"With its homages to 'Frankenstein,' 'The Exorcist' and "'The Shining,' director David Gelb's The Lazarus Effect is at least smarter and tenser than last year's crop of tame horror films (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	Despite eclectic casting and occasional experiments with objective camera, the director, David Gelb, can’t breathe similar life into this risible mix of pseudoscientific hokum"	NEG
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"The film squanders whatever potential it had, not to mention the talents of such performers as Duplass and Wilde who clearly deserve better"	NEG

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