The Lazarus Effect

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The Lazarus Effect

PG-13,

2015,

1h 23m,

Horror/

Mystery & Thriller

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Medical researcher Frank (Mark Duplass), his fiancée 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.

Critics Consensus

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

Sep 1, 2017

D+

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.

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Lenika Cruz

The Atlantic

Jan 21, 2016

Given the low-budget film's bottle-episode feel, horror fans could've gotten extra mileage out of a disorienting and original psychological treatment.

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Ben Sachs

Chicago Reader

Mar 6, 2015

It's thematically thin but competently made and good for a few scares.

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Matt Oakes

Silver Screen Riot

Oct 14, 2026

D+

For the real h-buffs, there's nothing here worth seeing on the big screen so if you're inevitably going to gobble it up, make sure you do so at home.

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

Aug 23, 2022

2.5/5

It simply does nothing original and leaves no real lasting effect.

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

Jun 9, 2022

1/4

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.

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Kylo L

Apr 17, 2019

terrible bad unoriginal predictable.

Anakin R

Apr 5, 2019

There must be some seriously gullible people on the planet if this took 20M at the cinemas ? Terrible in every way. The dog breaks out of the box, put the dog back in the box ??

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Luke S

Mar 26, 2019

Going in I knew very little. I had seen the trailer but had low expectations. Four years later my oppinion has changed slightly. When I saw it opening night I was impressed but after numerous viewings it's predictable.

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Abraham S

Jan 24, 2019

Bad story, bad acting and not scary

Luke W

Jan 7, 2019

Underrated movie. They could've done better but still a pretty good flick.

Jan 2, 2019

Recycles all the regeneration genre's greatest hits. Cast is great does what it can with what they had.

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David Gelb

Director

Mark Duplass

Frank

Olivia Wilde

Zoe

Donald Glover

Niko

Evan Peters

Clay

Sarah Bolger

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Synopsis

Medical researcher Frank (Mark Duplass), his fiancée 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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