10 Blumhouse Productions That Prove The New Halloween Movie Is Doomed
4. The Lazarus Effect
Blumhouse’s first horror movie of 2015, The Lazarus Effect opened to decent box office and pleasant reviews (USA Today called it “smarter and tenser than last year’s crop of tame horror films”) and has a cast that includes Ray Wise, Evan Peters and Olivia Wilde.
That whets the appetite for what at the very least should be an entertaining romp, but the movie quickly goes off the rails and never recovers, giving us a nonsense plot and unengaging characters.David Gelb’s film thinks it’s a modern Frankenstein, but it’s really a PG-13 version of Flatliners made for the Twilight demographic.
Once again, a team of researchers (young and good-looking, you know the drill) discover a way of bringing the dead back to life, but have hitherto only been successful with animal subjects. If you just thought, “I bet lead researcher’s girlfriend dies in an accident, and when they revive her, she returns as some kind of monster”, you’re way ahead of the filmmakers.