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The Lazarus Effect (2015)

PG-13  |   |  Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller  |  27 February 2015 (USA)
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A group of medical students discover a way to bring dead patients back to life.

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THE LAZARUS 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. Frank, Zoe and their team take matters into their own hands, launching a rogue attempt to recreate their experiment, during which things go terribly wrong and one of their own, Zoe, is horrifically killed. Fueled by terror and grief, Frank pushes them to do the unthinkable: attempt to resurrect their first human test subject. Initially, the procedure appears a success, but the team soon realizes something is wrong with Zoe. As her strange new persona reveals itself, the team quickly becomes stuck in a gruesome reality. They are no longer faced with the question ... Written by Relativity

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Evil will rise


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Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of horror violence, terror and some sexual references | See all certifications »

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Reawakening  »

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$3,300,000 (estimated)

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$10,203,437 (USA) (27 February 2015)

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$25,799,043 (USA) (5 June 2015)
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The potato chips in the film are the fictional Let's Potato Chips, which are also found in the TV show Community, which Donald Glover used to star in. See more »

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Just after Niko (Donald Glover) is killed, and everyone else is in the same room, Clay (Evan Peters) and Frank (Mark Duplass) get in a verbal argument about using the phone. In the sequence, you can see the blanket worn by Zoe (Olivia Wilde) change positions from two very different takes and stitched together to make this one scene. See more »

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Frank: Zoe, it's Frank. You're probably really scared and confused. We're going to fix this. We can fix this together, okay, you and me.
Zoe: It's too late for that.
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References Cujo (1983) See more »

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Finally Out
Written by Misha Segal
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Would not recommend
16 April 2015 | by (Georgia, Tbilisi) – See all my reviews

I've long stopped going to horror movies expecting to get scared, or see anything remotely decent. Instead I view them as comedy movies, trying to entertain myself by how bad the films are, so it's pretty safe to say my expectations when seeing a horror movie are about as low as it gets and yet "The Lazarus Effect" still left me astonished by just how bad, uninteresting and not even remotely scary it was. There was nothing new or unique about the movie, and literally the only aspect of the movie that could be considered scary (if you're not already desensitized to those, like most people) were the jump scares, and even those were predictable.

I've been disappointed by a lot of movies, but this is thee first time it was bad enough that I actually took the time to write out a review.


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