Jason Clarke

Amy Seimetz

John Lithgow

Jeté Laurence

Hugo Lavoie

Lucas Lavoie

Obssa Ahmed

Sonia Maria Chirila

Alyssa Brooke Levine

Maria Herrera

Jacob Lemieux

Maverick Fortin

Lou Ferrando

Najya Muipatayi

Emma Hill

Frank Schorpion

Linda E. Smith

Naomi Frenette

Suzi Stingl

Kelly Lee

Nina Lauren

Alison O'Donnell

Raphaël Laporte

Simon Pelletier-Gilbert

Ambre Dioh-Dikongué

Constance St-Denis-Veilleux

Bailey Thain

Ines Feghouli Bozon

Justin M. Davey

Jason W. Jennings

Stephan Ashdown

Vasilica Pintea

Audrey Ejdelman

Camille Bouvet

Pierre-Emmanuel Kaas

Rémy Deroy

Viviane Vallée

John C. Stuver

Andrew LemMon

Caroline Aquin

Serge Julien

David V. Butler

Ralph Osborn

Amanda Dellapenta

Cyril Hipaux

Adrien Morot

Ela Miszkurka

Véronique Arcouette

Annie Lamarre

Sharon Canovas

Kenneth MacKenzie

Sylvie Théberge

Steven Pristin

David McKeown

Eddie Jaszek

Catherine Lord

Madeleine Tremblay

Chris Patterson

Hans Laliberté

Puelo Deir

Jonathan Lavallée

Emma Present

Abigail Callahan

Steve Baine

Jean Frenette

Lucie Fournier

Didier Communaux

Chris Diebold

Matt Cavanaugh

Bob Kellough

Geoffroy St-Hilaire

Audrey Fallu

Daniel Lepage

Michael DiCarlo

Martin Lemire

Kyla McFeat

Lauren Orlowski

Elizabeth Tremblay

Eames Gagnon

Dany Racine

Ame Hutchison

Nicholas Lundgren

Stephannie Hawkins

Stéphane Julien

Jesse Provencher

Benoît Mathieu

Vincent Aird

Michel Bougie

Carly Paige Salzman

Raphaël Hébert

Doug Brode

Dylan La Frenière

David Bach

Maxime Ferland

Casey Genton

Peter Persaud

Martine Leclerc

Cyril Balavoine

Ted Teske

Ann Smart

Dennis Widmyer

Kevin Kölsch

Jeff Buhler

Stephen King

Laurie Rose

Todd Cherniawsky

Sarah Broshar

Christopher Young

Steven Schneider

Mathieu Giguère

Mark Vahradian

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Mark Moran

Félix Larivière-Charron

Matt Greenberg

Jean-Manuel Medina

Annick Chartier

Melissa Fafard

Laurie Frigon

Monika Mikkelsen

Deb Adair

Beau Ferris

Brandon Jones

Simon Théberge

Louis Craig

Pet Sematary (Reboot) Collection

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husband wife relationship

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remake

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maine

zombie

pet cemetery

indian burial ground

neighbor neighbor relationship

pets

father daughter relationship

traumatized woman

Gimly

The things that this 2019 _Pet Sematary_ add to the original may not strictly speaking be improvements, but at least it's not a shot for shot remake, which it was looking like it might have been based on the trailers. A couple of those additions I was not particularly fondof, one's a massive spoiler so I'll let that slide, but the biggest one I knew going into it, 'cause of the trailers, which is: As much as I appreciate John Lithgow, I really wish they had kept this guy (or an emulation of him, I more mean) on as Jud Crandall.

Unrelated sidenote, but when I was young (and I found out about _Pet Sematary_ overall through the Ramones song of the same name) my dad always told me that it was called _Pet Sematary_ and not _Pet Cemetary_ because Americans spelt it that way. That guy lied about... Just everything.

_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._

Stephen Campbell

A place to bury our pets and remember them. I know it seems scary, but it's not. Perfectly natural, just like dying is natural. 

Directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer and written by Stephen King, Matt Greenberg, Jeff Buhler. It stars Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jeté Laurence and Hugo and Lucas Lavoie. Music is by Christopher Young and cinematography by Laurie Rose.   

Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

Not as bad as I was fearing it would be, but is it really any better than the original film?. Itself a simply ordinary adaptation from what is a very good book, you would have thought the 2019 version would at least bring some fresh life to the story. Yet albeit that some changes have been made (one of which was moronically shown in the trailers), it's still a re-tread that has failed to entice newcomers to this world. 

There's some good on show, though. Child actor Jeté Laurence is excellent, particularly in the latter part of the pic. The design for the Pet Sematary and the surrounding areas are splendidly eerie, with photographer Rose deserving a better film really. While the sound work out at the special place is also bang on the tonal money.

The ending has provided much division, but personally it was a change that I liked. Two writers and two directors came up with this adaptation, but they didn't get much right between them and the pic feels like a compromised cash cow. Stick with the book and get The Ramones album of the same name instead. 6/10

I can see why some people would love this. They took all the story, all the characters, all the depth, and crammed it all into all of five minutes, and then upped the action and violence to 11.

The end result was the remake of a horror movie that had some head to it into a horror movie that you don't really need to pay attention to to follow.

In other words, they made it a mindless, soulless, action packed gory mess... unfortunately action and gore without a plot or characters is pretty boring to watch.

Pet Sematary( 2019)

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Written by Gimly on Fri Apr 12 2019

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