The lazarus effect 2
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There’s a moment when Zoe takes off her crucifix and places it in a petri dish, clearly showing that the nods to this theme are there. Frank always chooses science and facts over religion, while Zoe is a Catholic girl at heart (or, more accurately, she’s Catholic when it’s convenient to move the story forward), and the administration is worried about what religious leaders and fanatics will say about the work he’s conducting. In placing Frank against Zoe and the administration of the college at which he’s stationed, they should have gone down the science-vs-religion path. The problem here is that these guys didn’t seem to know exactly what they wanted to say or accomplish. At best, the story is a poorly spliced together version of a variety of other movies. There is nothing original or imaginative going on here. Despite their newbie statuses, there is no excuse for the way The Lazarus Effect turned out. This is director David Gelb’s first time helming a feature film, and it’s Luke Dawson and Jeremy Slater’s first feature film screenwriting credit. Given this moment and the dog’s previous actions, it’s assumed that the some demonic entity has come back with them. Your average person would think she’s possessed, especially after one scene where she breaks a mirror with her mind and sees two faces staring back at her in the shards - Zoe, and a more sinister Zoe. Zoe starts exhibiting telekinetic and telepathic abilities. But here’s where it turns into the horrifically deformed love child of one of the worst X-Men movies and Lucy. Like the dog, she’s brought back to life. Consumed with grief, Frank injects her with the Lazarus serum. This religion-vs-science debate the film seems to be setting up is quickly dropped, like many plot points in this film.Įventually, there’s a freak accident, and Zoe dies (this is in the trailer, so no quite a spoiler). She’s not that religious, after all, because then there might not be a movie. But these questions don’t haunt her too much. It won’t eat, it doesn’t really like to play, it’s prone to lashing out randomly and aggressively, and it likes to stare at Zoe while she sleeps. As she massages the crucifix dangling from her neck, she starts to wonder whether the dog even wanted to come back or if they “ripped him out of Heaven.” There’s something clearly wrong with the dog. After they’ve had success in resurrecting a dead dog (God spelled backwards, y’all!), Zoe starts to have some reservations about what they’re doing.
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Essentially, these guys are playing Jesus, and we all know what happens when people try to be Jesus.