Yesterday I was searching for something to watch with the
girls downstairs and decided to search my streaming services to find something.
After some internal debate, I decided on the 1989 Stephen King adaptation Pet
Sematary.
Plot/ Behind a young family's home in Maine is a terrible
secret that holds the power of life after death. When tragedy strikes, the
threat of that power soon becomes undeniable.
This is one of the Stephen King adaptations that have a
place right in the middle of the catalog. While it is nowhere near as good as
The Shining or Misery, it is not nearly as bad as Maximum Overdrive or
Christine. For fans of King, this movie does have a better than average feel,
mostly because King himself penned the script. The cast is an interesting mix,
the scenery is amazing, the storyline interesting, the effects solid, and the
performances are decent, yet even those positives cannot make this reach the
potential that it held inside. Unfortunately, the characters feel
underdeveloped, the atmosphere is flat, there really aren’t any scares, and a
lot of the movie felt restrained to a point where things become overly
predictable. In the end, this is another case where the book is much better
than the movie adaptation. Is this a terrible movie? No, but it also isn’t
anywhere close to being an effective horror movie.
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