The Lazarus Effect Movie Reviews
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Verdict: Timepass based on 8 reviews
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4.0
James Rocchi | TheWrap
The Lazarus Effect is a smart, unsubtle chiller that should leave even a dedicated horror fan shaken and spooked from its opening scene’s revelations to its final scene’s implications.Read full review3.2
Claudia Puig | USA Today
With its homages to "Frankenstein," "The Exorcist" and "The Shining," director David Gelb's The Lazarus Effect is at least smarter and tenser than last year's crop of tame horror films.Read full review
2.5
Reagan Gavin Rasquinha | Times of India
Apart from the film’s clear message – that if you play God, bad things will happen – Wilde definitely does look scary and indeed, she is the best thing about the movie.Read full review2.5
Kevin C. Johnson | St. Louis Post-Dispatch
For the hour or so it’s on screen it’s a harmless, little chiller that doesn’t scare much but serves as a holdover until something truly scary comes along.Read full review2.5
Troy Ribeiro | NDTV
Technically, the quality of the visual effects is above average but oft seen and forgettable.Effectively, The Lazarus Effect is not worth your leisure time.Read full review1.9
All this publication's reviews | The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
While the monster Wilde is scary enough, the directing and writing is lazy, relying on “boo!” tactics and insinuating a religious subtext by cutting to close-ups of crucifix jewellery. The ending is slapdash.Read full review1.5
Navin Noronha | BookMyShow
Everyone loves a horror film with a relevant back story. Because that makes for a better viewing experience than having to see random ghastly imagery......Read full review1.5
Ben Kenigsberg | The New York Times
Despite eclectic casting and occasional experiments with objective camera, the director, David Gelb (“Jiro Dreams of Sushi”), can’t breathe similar life into this risible mix of pseudoscientific hokum and supernatural freakouts.Read full review1.3
Richard Roeper | Chicago Sun-Times
The Lazarus Effect is nothing but a cheap horror film cloaked in scientific mumbo-jumbo.Read full reviewNR
Lou Lumenick | New York Post
There’s no doubt at all that the schlocky The Lazarus Effect should have been euthanized and shipped directly to video rather than haunting movie theaters, however briefly.Read full review
