10 Craziest Ways Horror Movie Characters Have Returned From The Dead

David Webb's The Lazarus Effect saw a modern spin put on the concept of using science to bring back the dead.

With an impressive cast featuring Olivia Wilde, Mark Duplass, Evan Peters, Donald Glover, and major genre fave Ray Wise, The Lazarus Effect soon places its main focus on House star Wilde's Zoe.

For those not familiar with The Lazarus Effect, Zoe and her partner Frank are scientists who created a serum designed to bring people back to life. The sh*t soon hits the fan, mind, when Zoe ends up electrocuted and dead - which in turns leads to the decision to use this serum to resurrect her. And as is so often the case, this resurrected Zoe isn't quite the same Zoe who had passed away.

This isn't the first time that we've seen a horror movie use science for reanimation purposes, with Re-Animator the obvious film that jumps out as embracing this notion. Starring Jeffrey Combs as deranged doc Herbert West, Re-Animator has spanned across three movies that have again reiterated that maybe dead is sometimes better.

Not so much reanimation, but the famed fable of Frankenstein is another prime example of science being used to create life on the silver screen.