What happened to Rocky in The Lazarus Effect?

What happened to Rocky in The Lazarus Effect? - Scenic View of a Rocky Mountain

Rocky was a dog who played a principal role in the first half of "The Lazarus Effect". Weird things happening to the dog gave a foreshadowing of what was about to happen to the humans.

But once the film gets in to full swing, Rocky sort of disappears and is not heard or seen again. What happened to him?

I figure there are some alternatives...

  • he escaped and ran away and the scene wound up on the cutting room floor
  • he got killed off screen and the scene wound up on the cutting room floor
  • he morphed into a somebody's dead body
  • he is lurking about waiting to go full hulk on Zoe

Which of these (or some alternate view) would it be?



Best Answer

It's implied that he's killed, but I'm guessing they wanted to keep it off-screen to maintain their PG-13 rating.

There's one point in the film when he's in a room with Zoe, and the view cuts to outside the room, and you hear him yelp in pain. Unfortunately, I can't find a clip of this on YouTube.




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Who survives in The Lazarus Effect?

After killing Frank, Zoe injects herself with more of the Lazarus serum and searches for Eva. After finding him, Zoe forces her into the hell that she was in, where Eva learns that Zoe was the one who set the apartment fire as a kid. Eva escapes and kills Zoe, but she later sees that Zoe survived.

What happens at the end of The Lazarus Effect?

Frank dies after he tries to placate and then inject Zoe with a chemical that will do her in. She asks Frank whether he still loves her and he says he does, but she reads his mind and then kills him.

Is Zoe possessed in The Lazarus Effect?

When a trial run goes wrong, one of the scientists Zoe (Olivia Wilde) dies and is later revived. But strange things begin happening to her\u2014she has visions of a childhood nightmare, she can move objects with her mind, and, this being a horror film, she's possessed by the sudden desire to murder everyone around her.

Is The Lazarus Effect a true story?

The Lazarus Project is a 2008 novel by Bosnian fiction writer and journalist Aleksandar Hemon. It features the true story of the death of Lazarus Averbuch, a teenaged Jewish immigrant to Chicago who was shot and killed by a police officer in 1908.



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