![]() Picking people off one by one within a confined space just doesn't work, logically speaking. ![]() In concept, The Lazarus Effect is nothing new (See: Re-Animator, Pet Sematary) in setup it's interesting enough and offers a lot of good, creepy potential but in execution (especially the film's odd final act) it's cumbersome and clumsy - mostly tripped up by the logical flaws inherent in its single-setting location. The same scrutiny can be applied to the script by Jeremy Slater ( Fantastic Four) and Luke Dawson ( Shutter). The logic of cause and effect - of action and consequence and resonance - seems completely out of whack, which is even more noticeable due to the movie being set in a confined location. Where he needs more work as a feature-film director is in sequencing and connectivity The Lazarus Effect collapses under the sheer amount of ideas or concepts that play out in stunted progression, or are outright jilted by the forward movement of the film. In terms of general direction: Gelb seems competently adept at telling a story in the visual medium - and then, at creating good scares and horror using visual manipulation as his tool. Olivia Wilde in 'The Lazarus Effect' (2015) Haiti has achieved universal ART coverage according to WHO 2010. Today, the prevalence of HIV in Haiti has shrunk from 6.2 percent in 1993 to 2.2 percent in 2012, according to Farmer’s Shattuck Lecture. That laboratory setting is put to good use, as Gelb and his set designers find ways of turning the sterile locale into a true house of horror, with concepts and scenes that are frightening and/or creepy even in the limited space. Adeline Merçon rapidly recovered after beginning antiretroviral therapy for HIV in 1999, a transformation termed the 'Lazarus effect.'. The Lazarus Effect tells the dark story of scientist couple Frank (Mark Duplass) and Zoe (Olivia Wilde) who are pursuing groundbreaking discovery along with their research team (Donald Glover and Evan Peters), and Eva (Sarah Bolger. There are only a handful of locations, and of those handful, only the main laboratory set piece gets any extended use (beyond one or two scenes). The Lazarus Effect is one of those horror films where lack of character logic makes it hard to root for the bodies that are inevitably going to pile on the floor. The movie is really a half-step away from being a single-setting horror film. By some small miracle, despite killing its own momentum with a poorly-conceived narrative and logical gaps galore, The Lazarus Effect still manages to be creepy (if not scary) throughout. After the halfway mark, however, the film quickly unravels, revealing both a lack of vision and the technique necessary to execute all of the big ideas the film introduces. The debut feature-film of documentary filmmaker David Gelb ( Jiro Dreams of Sushi), The Lazarus Effect takes an overdone horror/thriller movie premise and manages to make it into something fresh and creepy.
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