#THE LAZARUS EFFECT CAST TRIAL#

On Rotten Tomatoes 16% of 107 reviews were positive, with a average rating of 4/10. The Lazarus Effect received generally negative reviews from critics. In North America, the film opened to number five in its first weekend, with $10,203,437, behind Focus, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, and Fifty Shades of Grey. The first still of the film was released on January 5, 2015, along with the theatrical poster.

In December 2014, it was then announced that the film would be retitled The Lazarus Effect, and be released a week later than previously planned, on February 27, 2015. On November 4, 2014, Relativity Media acquired the film from Lionsgate and set the film's release date for February 20, 2015. On December 17, 2013, it was announced that the film (then titled Lazarus) would be released on January 30, 2015, with Lionsgate distributing the film. Zoe then injects Frank with her own serum-saturated blood, successfully bringing him back from the dead. Zoe eventually finds Eva, who is apparently able to escape and inject Zoe with the syringe, but it turns out to be an illusion Zoe then kills Eva. Zoe then injects herself with an entire bag of the serum, strengthening her abilities.Įva, who is still alive and trying to locate Zoe to inject her, is left in the dark. Later, Zoe kills Frank after he attempts to inject her with poison. When Clay demands to know where Niko is, she kills him by lodging an e-cigarette into his throat. Using her new abilities, she cuts the power to the entire lab. Zoe kills Rocky and then attempts to seduce Niko, but after he refuses, she uses telekinesis to throw him into a locker and crush it with him inside, killing him. It is revealed that Zoe was the one that caused the fire in the building, and she went to Hell when she died. Zoe eventually finds Eva and shows her the nightmarish Hell she experienced. It also causes increased aggression and insanity. They realize that the serum causes brains to 'evolve' rapidly, giving Zoe superhuman abilities such as telekinesis and telepathy. She also begins to demonstrate unusual psychic abilities as the serum begins to take effect. She claims that when she died, she went to her version of Hell, which was a nightmare originating from her childhood: during a fire in her apartment building, she witnessed trapped neighbors burning to death. Initially, the procedure appears to be a success, but the team soon realizes that something is wrong with Zoe. Despite warnings from the others, a distraught Frank uses the serum to resurrect her.

During this attempt, things go horribly wrong after Zoe is fatally electrocuted. The company confiscates everything associated with the project.įrank and his team sneak back into their lab to duplicate the experiment so that they can prove that they created the serum. They are also informed that a major pharmaceutical company has bought out the company that funded their research. When the dean of their university learns of their underground experiments, their project is shut down. Tests reveal that the serum, instead of dissipating, is concentrated within Rocky's brain, where it is causing new synapses to be constructed. However, Rocky displays several unusual psychological and physical phenomena after being revived by the serum: cataracts formerly present in his eyes abruptly dissolve, he loses his appetite, and he displays increased aggression.

#THE LAZARUS EFFECT CAST TRIAL#

With the assistance of their lab associates, Niko and Clay, they run a successful trial on a recently euthanized dog, Rocky. Videography student Eva joins them in the lab to document their project. Zoe McConnell, have developed a serum, code-named ' Lazarus', intended to assist coma patients but shown to be able to actually bring the dead back to life.

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