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Released
2015 · FILM

The Lazarus Effect

A brilliant medical researcher races to prove his groundbreaking resurrection formula before a skeptical dean shuts down his lab, only to unleash terrifying consequences that threaten everyone he loves.

Evil will rise.

Directed by
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
83 min
HorrorMysterySci-Fi

Synopsis

Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 26

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Michael N KnueShot by Michael FimognariScored by Sarah SchachnerDesigned by Melanie Jones

Box Office

2015 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 19× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$64.1M

Budget$3.3M
Worldwide gross$64.1M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $25.8M 40% of worldwide · International: $38.3M (60%)

Opening weekend: $10.2M 40% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $12.3M48% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,666 theaters

Also known as

  • The Lazarus Effectde

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