The Lazarus Effect merely coasts by on a very thin script that is really just a placeholder to get to what is obviously its larger purpose: to frighten the audience so much that we forget that we're watching a bad movie.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 1, 2017

Given the low-budget film's bottle-episode feel, horror fans could've gotten extra mileage out of a disorienting and original psychological treatment.

| Jan 21, 2016

It's thematically thin but competently made and good for a few scares.

| Mar 6, 2015

...settles into a ho-hum slasher groove, offering up with Pavlovian regularity epileptic freak-outs and shadowy figures.

| Mar 4, 2015

Despite an intriguing opening and an overqualified cast, The Lazarus Effect can't shake a been-there/resurrected-that vibe.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 2, 2015

Lazarus is mired in the predictability of its genre conventions, showing its cards on the table before actually playing them.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 27, 2015

I would have loved to see more from the filmmakers, daring to fail while staking out some new terror incognita instead of just going through the motions of an experiment for which we already have the results.

| Original Score: C- | Feb 27, 2015

A grimy, dopey, confused thriller that wastes a very likable cast.

| Feb 27, 2015

Death may not be the end in The Lazarus Effect, but it should be.

| Feb 27, 2015

"The Lazarus Effect" boasts nothing special. It's not going to provide much relief for horror-starved audiences.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2015

"The Lazarus Effect" is nothing but a cheap horror film cloaked in scientific mumbo-jumbo.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.0 | Feb 27, 2015

Another cheapie from the producers of "Paranormal Activity." Aims low, but hits its target.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2015

This isn't a real horror movie-this is the kind of horror movie that the characters in a real horror movie watch in order to comment on the lameness of the genre before their authentic terrors begin.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 27, 2015

No resurrection for this dog please.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 27, 2015

Mildly enjoyable despite its basic mediocrity ...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 27, 2015

A tense, efficient medical thriller best enjoyed sans microscope.

| Feb 26, 2015

While The Lazarus Effect isn't the worst scary movie film you'll see this year, it is probably one of the most predictable and lazily plotted.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 26, 2015

Although it does stagger and groan and stumble around, you wouldn't necessarily say it's alive.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 26, 2015

It staggers, zombielike, from one jump-scare to another before petering out, a scant 83 minutes after rising from the slab.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 26, 2015

[A] risible mix of pseudoscientific hokum and supernatural freakouts.

| Feb 26, 2015