Directed by : David Gelb
Written by : Luke Dawson, Jeremy Slater
Starring : Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Sarah Bolger, Evan Peters, Donald Glover
Release Date : February 26, 2015
When people are trying to create a serum that brings living beings back from the dead, you know something wrong is going to happen. As expected from this movie something wrong does happen, so commence all these bad situations. This is hardly a unique horror / scary movie that toys with the idea of a science experiment gone wrong, and unfortunately it’s also hardly genuinely horrific or scary.
All the scares that come from this are all from cheap “jump scares,” and this movie does not tire of over using this very predictable technique. A group of people will get drunk very fast, if they play a drinking game to whenever there’s a scene setting up a jump scare. The idea for the plot is at least an interesting one, but unfortunately the movie focuses too much on trying to scare its audience, instead of seriously exploring the fascinating premise.
Olivia Wilde is easily the best thing this movie’s got going, even when she has those scary looking black eye contacts on. The rest of the cast are fine, but they are all handicapped by doing all the stupid cliché things that are found in many other scary movies of this kind. “The Lazarus Effect” could have potentially been really good, but it ended up being a bit disappointing.
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