Pet Sematary is one of Stephen King's best works and is easily one of my personal favorite novels I've ever read. Despite it's flaws i still enjoyed the first Pet Sematary from the 80's. Due to the Stephen King adaptions being really good lately, i was really looking forward to this movie. While i'm a bit disappointed, i still thought it was an enjoyable movie and is not nearly as bad as Critics are making it out to be.
There's a handful of things Pet Sematary gets right, and one of those is the cinematography. The locations look eerie and it works very well. The acting is solid however some actors deliver better then others. For example, the characters Jud and Rachael are standouts and they do the best job out of everyone in the movie if you ask me. While the father/husband Louis just doesn't have a lot of personality to him and for a majority of the movie he feels stiff in terms of emotion. My major complaint with this movie however is by far the pacing. I can't help but feel that the movie was rushed and it was bouncing from one plot point to another. If we are talking scares the movie has plenty of them and only 2 or 3 felt clever and unique.
So all in all, i was disappointed with how Pet Sematary turned out. They turned one of the best stories literature had and turned it into a decent cliche-filled horror movie. With that being said i never once hated anything that was presented on the screen. It just feels like a modern day horror film and not a Stephen King story, and it deserved better then that.
There's a handful of things Pet Sematary gets right, and one of those is the cinematography. The locations look eerie and it works very well. The acting is solid however some actors deliver better then others. For example, the characters Jud and Rachael are standouts and they do the best job out of everyone in the movie if you ask me. While the father/husband Louis just doesn't have a lot of personality to him and for a majority of the movie he feels stiff in terms of emotion. My major complaint with this movie however is by far the pacing. I can't help but feel that the movie was rushed and it was bouncing from one plot point to another. If we are talking scares the movie has plenty of them and only 2 or 3 felt clever and unique.
So all in all, i was disappointed with how Pet Sematary turned out. They turned one of the best stories literature had and turned it into a decent cliche-filled horror movie. With that being said i never once hated anything that was presented on the screen. It just feels like a modern day horror film and not a Stephen King story, and it deserved better then that.