The lazarus effect6/26/2023 ![]() Niko (after Zoe wakes up): "There's too much neural activity!" So Frank makes the obvious science fiction-horror film decision, and decides to inject her.Ĭlay: "But what if she comes back all messed up, like the dog?" But you already knew this was a movie about bringing the dead back to life, and you didn't really think it was going to stop with dogs. This is the point where I'd usually capitalize the words SPOILER ALERT, and then reveal that Zoe is accidentally electrocuted when she throws a switch but forgets to first take off her engagement ring (is that actually scientific?). Let's duplicate the experiment, but let's duplicate it quickly. The great Ray Wise (Leland Palmer in "Twin Peaks") makes a 30-second cameo as the head of a money-grubbing pharma company who, with a gang of goons, bursts in on our heroes' experiments, and grabs all of their results (except the dog), leaving them back at square one after three years of work.įrank and Zoe's immediate response: We've hidden a little bit of that serum, just in case something like this happens. He's gotten - what's that word? - aggressive!īut let's just go with some of the actual script.įrank: "What we're doing here could be considered questionable."Ĭlay: "There's something seriously wrong with that animal."īack to words about, not from, the movie. Wait! Look out! He's growling and snarling and ready to attack. Wait! Check it out! His cataracts are gone. He's injected, he comes to life, but he's kind of lethargic, not even interested in kibble. Rocky the dog has been put down by his owners because he has cataracts (could someone please get P.E.T.A. ![]() ![]() Niko (Donald Glover) is the other assistant, also bright, who has a crush on Zoe.Įva (Sarah Bolger) is documenting the experiment on video. This is a ridiculous science fiction-horror film that introduces people with good intentions who don't know what they're getting into, who then lose control of the situation, and don't know how to get out of what they got into.įrank and Zoe (Mark Duplass and Olivia Wilde) are the research couple who have put off their wedding in order to see this grant-funded project through.Ĭlay (Evan Peters) is one of their young assistants, who is bright but probably smokes too much pot (can you really smoke pot in an e-cigarette?). I just re-read that last sentence, and it still sounds as silly as it did (with a bit more psycho-babble terminology thrown in) while I was watching the movie. Their method: inject some Lazarus serum into the temporal lobe of the brain, which will pump up the hallucinatory effect of the body's natural supply of DMT, thereby reigniting the spark of life. They're not crazy enough to deal with humans, so they experiment on dead pigs or dead dogs. In "The Lazarus Effect," a team of scientists (OK, two scientists, two assistants and a videographer) are working under false pretenses at a California college to figure out how to bring the dead back to life. There's "Frankenstein" (the feat was accomplished via electricity), "Pet Sematary" (overnight burial in sacred Indian ground) and "Flatliners" (everyone was simply resuscitated, without much explanation). If someone tried to put together a Reviving Dead People film festival, there wouldn't be enough films in the genre to actually call it a festival.
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