#LAZARUS MOVIE SERIAL#
How do you know they’re evil?: Well, Rocky, who again is a dog, develops the ability to open his cage and just pop up snarling behind people from dark corners of a scary deserted basement labs, watching them ominously as they sleep like a dog serial killer and other things that would propel actual geniuses to find a new job, or at the very least NOT LET IT SLEEP IN THEIR HOUSES. The other one is a dog named Rocky, the first subject brought back from the dead during “Project Lazarus.” Neither seem that thrilled to be back. Well, technically only one of them is a person, devout Catholic researcher Zoe (Wilde) with her own misgivings about playing God, who gets a shot of undead juice via her distraught fiancee Frank (Duplass) after being fatally electrocuted during one of their top-secret procedures. So who’s evil?: There are two evil people. Why is it so badly reviewed?: The consensus is that it’s got a great cast (mumblecore director/actor Mark Duplass, Olivia Wilde, actor/rapper Donald Glover, serial “American Horror Story” cast member Evan Peters) but crumbles under the weight of lazy plot-stealing (“Flatliners”), dumb twists and an over-reliance on “BUM-bum-BUUUUUMMM!!!” ominous music, scary fake-me-outs and a year’s supply of those black iris-covering contact lenses that scream “This girl evil, yo.” How badly?: Like “irate undead person momentarily trapped in Hell and then unleashed on the world” bad. You would not be surprised to find that this ends badly. What’s it about: Some scientists trying to perfect a serum that would revive dead (dead-ish?) people long enough for doctors to be able to save them wind up losing one of their own and using it on her. Sample bad review: “‘The Lazarus Effect’ starts dead and cannot be raised from it.” – Gary Wolcott, “Tri-City Herald” How badly-reviewed is it?: It got a 14 percent Fresh rating on.
#LAZARUS MOVIE MOVIE#
for full review Author : Dustin Putman, worst-reviewed movie of the week: “The Lazarus Effect”
The person who returns to them is not quite the same Zoe, however, her increased brain function and knowledge of what awaited her after death paving the way for a downward spiral of destruction that could very well threaten no less than the natural process of evolution itself. When a freak electrocution stops Zoe's heart and standard resuscitation does not work, Frank desperately injects the serum into his fiancée. Fearing that they will not receive due credit for their findings, they and their assistants-Clay (Evan Peters), Niko (Donald Glover), and photographer Eva (Sarah Bolger)-sneak back to the lab after hours with plans to duplicate the experiment.
When the review board catches wind of what they have been working on, all of Frank and Zoe's research is confiscated from them. Working on this secret project with the university grant money they received to investigate neural decay in coma patients, their unsanctioned alternate experimentations have led to not only reanimating a dead canine, but inadvertently curing the dog's cataracts. What is left shows glimmers of a promise left unfulfilled.Įngaged medical researchers Frank (Mark Duplass) and Zoe (Olivia Wilde) are on the verge of a scientific breakthrough, creating a serum that has the ability to resurrect deceased creatures while restoring their cognitive function. Not a single audience jump is earned-a result of sheer predictability and poorly timed editing.
"Flatliners," this is not, and what a shame it is that director David Gelb (2012's "Jiro Dreams of Sushi") and screenwriters Luke Dawson (2008's "Shutter") and first-timer Jeremy Slater are so beholden to cheap, repetitive scare tactics. "The Lazarus Effect" teases that it is going to dig deeper than the average studio-made genre offering, but just when things start to look up and get interesting, it discouragingly turns into a movie more concerned with its body count than asking tough questions. There have been plenty of horror-thrillers about people being brought back to life following death, but fewer that delve into the mysteries of an afterlife and the moral and physiological ramifications of human resurrection.
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