Review: In 'The Lazarus Effect,' Young Scientists Play God

When has the attempted reanimation of a corpse ever ended well? Not quite a zombie movie, The Lazarus Effect explores the negative side-effects of messing with nature. Interestingly, Jiro Dreams Of Sushi director David 

While the unapologetically stupid B-thriller "The Lazarus Effect" offers little in the way of a salve or antidote — or, in spirit of the film's mumbo-jumbo sci-fi parlance, "serum" — to this formula, not once during this absorbingly 

When has the attempted reanimation of a corpse ever ended well? Not quite a zombie movie, The Lazarus Effect explores the negative side-effects of messing with nature. Interestingly, Jiro Dreams Of Sushi director David 

The researchers in “The Lazarus Effect” devise a serum that resurrects the dead by stimulating brain activity. The film itself seems best watched with as few neurons firing as possible. Perhaps having not read Mary Shelley, the scientists are near a 

At one point in The Lazarus Effect, Evan Peters (playing the lab's resident stoner), does his best Dr. Frankenstein impression. “It's alive!” he says, looking into the eyes of a dog his colleagues have managed to resurrect from the dead. Following this