Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Peter Pluymers "There's something seriously wrong with that animal. It's like it was possessed or something."Once again a movie about the fact that playing for God could cause some life-threatening situations. Do you remember the film "Pet Sematary"? And also "The other side of the door" showed that it's not a good idea to resurrect a deceased person in a non-everyday way. The same happens to Frank (Mark Duplass) and Zoë (Olivia Wilde) in this inferior Scifi / Horror. Zoë has developed a serum called "The Lazarus serum", to give health care professionals more time to do their work. By means of this serum, it should be possible to bring deceased patients back to life. During an experiment on a dead dog it turns out that not only the animal is walking around and wagging his tail again, but also the cataract he had is cured. They realize that they have manufactured something revolutionary.Of course, you can predict what's going to happen. They'll be using the serum to bring someone back to life. In this case it'll be Zoë, who's being electrocuted by an unfortunate incident. But don't be sad. Frank doesn't hesitate to inject this revolutionary stuff into Zoë's brain. And before they know it, they end up with a non-human female person, whose brain is developing at a fast pace, giving her all kind of demonic and non-human powers. In addition, a youth trauma plays a prominent role as well. And so Zoë starts to develop this irresistible urge to send everyone to the place where she just came from. The afterlife.I have no problem with rehashed concepts. If only the package feels original and new ideas are introduced. And if that's not the case, at least I expect it to be a bit of a scary and terrifying horror. Unfortunately, it fails on all levels. It certainly isn't original and there are no new ideas introduced. And you can't say this movie is horrifying. Not even close. Even Zoë's carbon black eyes won't help. I have to admit that the used neurosurgery language was credible. To be honest this was the only complicated part in this fairly trivial story.So despite the scientific drivel and even the attempt to give it a religious touch, this film is just a watered down version of other movies about someone being raised from the dead. The only thing I was very excited about was the way in which Clay (Evan Peeters) and Niko (Donald Glover) were send to the eternal hunting grounds. But that's not enough to make it a fascinating film. Clay had better read "Pet Semetary" instead of "Cujo". He certainly would have protested against Zoe's resurrection. Or at least get the hell out of there. But on the other hand this movie wouldn't be the same anymore. Yet one positive feature. The film only takes 90 minutes.More reviews here : http://bit.ly/2qtGQoc

fairlesssam This movie is very disappointing. It has a strong cast who deliver on the acting side but the script is poor with little for the cast to work on. The story has been done before in movies such as re- animator so you would hope in a new more modern version things would be pretty good. Sadly this is not the case. As the movie begins they experiment on a dog which, after re- animating, changes it's behaviour and it's brain activity is much altered. This direction of the film was developing pretty nicely but instead of continuing along that path it suddenly jumps way off into another direction when Zoe (Olivia Wilde) gets electrocuted.I found the film to be very frustrating, there was very little character or plot development, it's very shallow and quite boring. It comes across as a very low budget movie even though Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Ray Wise and Evan Peters are all in it and it states the budget was some $3.3 million dollars!In my opinion it is a wasted opportunity and I wouldn't recommend it.

adonis98-743-186503 A group of medical researchers discover a way to bring dead patients back to life. The Lazarus Effect suffers from a boring plot and characters that has been done more than 10 times every year it's not scary or even interesting after a while the only good thing about it it's without a doubt Olivia Wilde as Zoe the girl who came back from the dead and started killing her friends. This is the first time that i ever watched a horror film with some potential but the writing is just so mediocre and the characters are so boring that it ruins the whole experience that it makes you want to see every single one of them get killed by her at times it doesn't make sense also especially the ending when Zoe brings back Frank for some unknown reason i would like to see a part 2 but only if it was interesting and the characters were written better. I will give The Lazarus Effect a 5.5/10.

DVDExotica If you wanna watch a bunch of lame actors bicker about pseudoscience, boy have I got the movie for you! That's, like, the first 75 minutes. Then, eventually, characters start getting killed off in boring and obvious ways and character motivations stop making sense. The only thing that separates this from shot-on-video junkers of the 80s is that modern digital movies can all achieve a similar, atmospheric gloss. But look past that and there's not much else to see.Our team of scientists consist of two stoner comic relief dudes, two implausibly hot chicks and Mark Duplass as himself. All five of them spend their time explaining to each other every aspect of what they're doing, but ultimately the logic of the film's premise doesn't even hold up. ...Which would be fine if it was just an excuse to throw all kinds of wild, cool stuff in front of the camera. But it's also a tame PG-13, so this isn't even entertaining in a trashy/ schlocky way.The film's idea of a dramatic, frightening image is a smokey hallway. Plot twists are set up (Oh no, the chemical company has been spying on us!) and then just dropped because they never mattered in the first place. The revived dog "going Cujo" is constantly threatened throughout the film, and they keep dragging it around from location to location while dramatically zooming in to close ups of its face, but ultimately it never does anything or has any influence on the outcome of the story at all. The first hour of this movie is like Shakma if the killer monkey never broke free of its cage, and the last half hour is a cheap Carrie knock-off without the heart. It doesn't help that the plot twists they withhold from us through most of the film are all disclosed in the trailer, so as an audience we're just left in the position of waiting for the movie to tell us what we already know so we can finally move on.I won't spoil the ending because I just finished watching this movie under an hour ago and I've already forgotten it. If you hang in there for a while, though, you'll eventually get a Ray Wise cameo. Sure, he's a bit over the top, but at least he knows how to make a character interesting. Too bad he didn't stick around behind the scenes and help the rest of the cast out. I guess they were aiming for more realism... in a movie where people come back from the dead and make furniture levitate. That's The Lazarus Effect!