Each one is derivative and obviously set up a person expects to find something under a sheet, or a character moving close to a seemingly dead patient, or the lights start flickering. Almost every scare littered throughout "Lazarus" is a jump scare and not a particularly well-crafted one either.
#The lazarus effect movie
None of this, however, helps Gelb make the movie feel any bit fresh or actually frightening (seriously, watch his "Jiro Dreams of Sushi unless you’re a fish, you’ll love it). It’s creepy enough – the constant nods to cameras hints at a feeling of paranoia or, even scarier, the tease of found footage – and the extremely Fincherian opening credit sequence – hyper-edited flesh, tubes and bubbling oozes with a spiny invader slithering about – is attention-snatchingly nifty. Gelb gives "The Lazarus Effect" a kind of polished and stylish mid-’00s music video sheen. And judging by the dramatic increase in flickering lights and increasingly unnerving behavior – eerie head tilts, weird psychic flashes – it seems she would like to share some not-so-fun gifts and photos from her quick vacation to the afterlife in the worst, creepiest way. The emergency re-animation – ethics and logic, be damned – works, but something’s predictably off about Zoe 2.0. If only there was a bag of resurrection juice close by OH WAIT THEY HAVE THAT! In the process, though, a freak accident kills Zoe. In desperation, the gang secretly busts in after hours to run and record evidence of their work. To be fair, it’s hard to pay much attention to a demon zombie dog when a rival company (led by a Ray Wise cameo) is buying out their lab and stealing their research – and the future credit.
Never mind that he eerily stares at Zoe while she sleeps or explodes out of his cage and ravages the lab. After years of research and failed testing, however, the team – Glover plays the team shy nerd, Peters the team genius goofball stoner … but with a Blu e-cigarette? – finally nets a breakthrough, bringing a dead dog back to life. Wilde and Duplass star as Frank and Zoe, a playful but strongly motivated duo – both romantically and scientifically – working on a serum and treatment that, as the biblical reference in the title implies, could bring the dead back to life. Too bad the actual movie itself isn’t as surprising or unpredictable as its IMDB page, relying on the same tried and tired horror clichés, tropes and scares for success. What’s an early year PG-13 horror movie doing with such an overqualified and overall just plain odd cast? I have so many questions! Watching the trailer for "The Lazarus Effect," it all seems like horror movie business as usual and then, wait, Olivia Wilde is in this? And hold on a second, is that indie king and "The League" star Mark Duplass? Here? As the lead in a PG-13 horror flick? Why? "Community" star and rapper Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) too? And Evan Peters, whose all-too-brief turn as Quicksilver stole "X-Men: Days of Future Past" out from under the likes of Jackman, Fassbender and Lawrence? All under the direction of David Gelb, whose last film was – you guessed it – "Jiro Dreams of Sushi," the utterly fascinating and delightful doc about a legendary 85-year-old sushi master? A spookily underlit hallway with a little girl.
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