The Lazarus Effect (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: David Gelb
	Actors: Olivia Wilde (In Time, Tron Legacy), Mark Duplass, Evan Peters
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller, Horror
	Conditions of visioning: 28.03.2015, CINEMA theater, MFFFN15
Synopsis: Looking for processes to cure aging cells, a group of researchers brings back a dog to life, but their experience is soon stopped. They go back to their lab for one last test.
Review: As I had read, the story of this movie reminds of the 1990 half-forgotten and under-rated Flatliners (L'Experience Interdite in French) with Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon and Kiefer Sutherland, in which students in medicine play at recreating NDEs (Near Death Experiences) by killing and reviving themselves in order to discover what is beyond. In The Lazarus Effect only one person is effected, and the consequences are a bit similar to the ones in Flatliners (childhood trauma coming back to haunt you) but are otherwise more gore than anything else. The movie abuses of the easy jump-scare effect of putting characters in the dark with a few blinking neon lights and making the "ghost" appear from the side of the screen. And in the end all of this is not very scary nor interesting.
Rating: 4 /10