The Lazarus Effect

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The Lazarus Effect brought high hopes with its all star cast, including Olivia Wilde, Evan Peters and Donald Glover. If you judge a scary movie by how many jump scares are in it, then I might as well rate this movie a 10/10.

      For the first part of movie, they use the serum on a dog who of course tries to kill Peters, but they just brush that off and put him in the cage. For the whole first half of the movie they put so much focus on this dog being the antagonist. The dog is seen watching them sleep, doing freaky kitchen raids, and continuously breaking out of his locked cage and then all of a sudden Wilde dies because she electrocutes herself. How dumb could you be to pull that off?

     Maybe I walked into the movie theater with too high of standards, or maybe I just missed the intelligent aspects of the plot. I am guessing that the director wanted to make the movie seem tricky so the viewer would feel accomplished while keeping up. The overall logic of the serum didn’t make any sense. At first it seems to prolong the life of a near death patient but then it extends to reviving the dead.

     What I didn’t understand the most was that at the very beginning of their tests (literally the beginning of the movie) they try it out on a pig, and the pig literally goes insane, flailing about, and then dying. This seems to be the very basis of their project and it did not seem like they made many improvements because every patient turned into a little devil.

     I counted there to be 5 power outages during the whole movie so if you are looking for jump scares, then go see it. If you actually watch movies for enjoyment, then steer far far away from this awful movie.