Here's the other
movie worth several beers to watch and enjoy in stupor. Medical researchers
Frank (Mark Duplass) and his fiancée, Zoe (Olivia Wilde),
have developed a serum, code-named "Lazarus". It was intended to
assist coma patients but is shown to actually be able to bring the dead back to
life.
With the
assistance of their friends, Niko (Donald Glover, Clay (Evan Peters) and videographer Eva (Sarah Bolger), they run a
successful trial on a recently deceased dog. However, they notice that the dog
is behaving differently than it did when it was alive - its cataracts
disappear, it loses its appetite, and it demonstrates other strange abilities.
Tests reveal that the serum, instead of dissipating, is constructing strange
new synapses within the dog’s brain.
When the dean of
their university learns of their underground experiments, their project is shut
down. They are also informed that a major pharmaceutical corporation has bought
out the company that funded their research. The company and their attorneys confiscate
everything associated with the project.
Frank and his
team sneak back into their lab to duplicate the experiment so that they can
prove that they created the serum. During this attempt things go horribly wrong
and Zoe is fatally electrocuted. Unwilling to let her go, Frank uses the serum
to resurrect her. Initially, the procedure appears to be a success, but the
team soon realizes that something is wrong with Zoe. She claims that when she
died, she went to her version of Hell which was a nightmare originating from
her childhood; as a child, Zoe's apartment building had caught on fire and she
watched her neighbors burn to death after they were trapped inside, causing
recurring nightmares. She also begins to demonstrate unusual psychic abilities.
The Lazarus serum causes brains to "evolve" incredibly rapidly,
giving Zoe inhuman powers such as telekinesis and telepathy.
The serum also
causes increased aggression with horrifying consequences. Niko walks into a
room and is surprised by Zoe. After he refuses to kiss her, she uses
telekinesis to throw him into a closet and crushes it with him inside, killing
him. When Clay demands to know where Niko is, she kills him as well by
suffocating him with an e-cigarette. Later, Zoe kills Frank after he attempts to
kill her with a poison injection. After this, Zoe injects herself with an
entire bag of the Lazarus serum, making her abilities stronger than before.
Using her newly empowered
abilities, she cuts the power to the entire lab. Eva, who is still alive and trying
to locate Zoe to inject her, is left in the dark. Zoe eventually finds Eva and
sends her into the hell that she went to when she died. Inside the nightmare,
it is revealed that Zoe was the one that caused the fire in the building,
causing her to go to hell upon death. Eva is able to escape and inject Zoe with
the syringe, but Zoe survives and kills Eva anyway. She then injects Frank with
her own blood loaded with the Lazarus serum, in an attempt to bring him back
from the dead, presumably turning him into a monster as well.
- http://www.cinemablend.com/The-Lazarus-Effect-6680.html
- http://movies.ndtv.com/movie-reviews/the-lazarus-effect-movie-review-1103
- http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-lazarus-effect-2015
- http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/26/the-lazarus-effect-review-film-horror-olivia-wilde
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lazarus_Effect_(2015_film)
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