bsmith5552 "Pet Sematary" is another adaptation of a Stephen King novel. Oddly enough, the cemetery is only incidental to the plot. The real center of the story revolves around an old Mic Mac burial ground located above the pet cemetery in an isolated area.A young family, the Creeds, moves to rural Maine from Chicago. The father, Louis (Dale Midkiff) is a doctor taking up a post at the local hospital (I think). His faithful wife Rachel (Denise Crosby) and their two young children, Ellie (Balze Berdahl) and Gage (Miko Hughes) settle in. They meet their neighbor, the mysterious Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne) who tells them of a "pet semetary" located at the end of a path leading from the Creeds property.The Creed home and that of Crandall are separated by a busy highway over which travel large trucks at high speeds. The "sematary" apparently was established by the local children to bury their pets that were killed on the highway.At work, Louis tends to the injuries of Victor Pascow (Brad Greenquist). The man dies but in the process vows to help Louis through any crisis, a sort of guardian angel. And yes, only Louis is aware of Victor.When Rachel and the kids go to Chicago for Thanksgiving, Their pet cat "Church" is killed. Rather than tell Ellie of the tragedy, Crandall takes Louis to a hidden graveyard once used by the Mic Mac Indians. The grave yard possess magical powers by which a body buried there will rise (rather quickly) from the dead. Louis buries the cat there and lo and behold, the next evening...the cat came back. The rejuvenated pet has become aggressive toward Louis however, he manages to keep his gruesome secret from his family.Now this is where it gets really interesting. One sunny afternoon at a family picnic, little Gage wanders onto the highway and is killed. After a traditional burial, Louis sends his family to Chicago. Louis distraught over his son's death, exhumes his body and despite warnings from Crandall and Pascow, takes the little boy to the Indian graveyard. The little boy comes back to life and................................A lot of blood and gore in this one folks. The make up on the Pascow character is unbelievable. The violence at the film's climax results in much bloodshed. How they got little Miko Hughes (and his dummy double) to do what they do is really amazing. The hanging suicide of washer woman Missy (Susan Blommaert) although gruesome (and well done), adds little to the story line except to provide a venue for Stephen King's cameo.

Shantanu Pednekar I remember watching Pet Sematary as a kid on the television, back then they never cut the parts deemed too scary, I remember being terrified of the dark and empty rooms that year after watching this movie. Now that I am 24, this movie still manages to do that. The movie perfectly captured madness, sadness, loss in single moments. The back story and the myths in this movie are SO rich and enticing. The urban legends of the ground. The ghost that only Louis can see, looks horrifying. But is not the main antagonist. As a horror buff, this movie does a lot of things too well, sadly it wasn't a big hit back in it's day, but is should have been

xXMetalrockeRXx One thing i admire in this movie is the themes it attempts to explore, and even though i find those themes very intense and terrifying, this film just doesn't translate it in the correct way. Yes, its a film that does try to be good. You can tell that everyone involved with it did what they could to make a good movie. Unfortunately the result was way less than awe-inspiring.While i don't consider this to be a "bad film", it is very lacking. The direction is... okay. What disappointed me the most was its complete lack of suspense. The editing is sometimes very choppy and that doesn't help either when you are trying to build up tension. The other thing is the writing. Now, I am a Stephen King fan, but every time i see that he wrote a screenplay... i get sacred. Because both times I've gotten very excited about that, I've been let down. King does try to stay faithful to his novel by almost never straying from the original story-line, which i appreciated, but some of it just doesn't translate to film that well.In the end, this is a perfectly enjoyable one-time watch. And also i can understand if you love this movie, because it has very good guilty pleasure potential, but in my humble opinion, the film is sadly unremarkable. 5.5/10

manisimmati The Creed family has a sweet house cat named Church. Unfortunately, it gets run over by a truck and dies. The family's neighbor Jud has a suggestion: Why not bury Church in the mysterious "Pet Semetary", which is hidden near their house? The father Louis Creed dares to do it. And what do you know, the next morning Church is alive and well again. But he does seem somewhat different … Has Louis disturbed the border between life and death? "Pet Sematary" is an allegoric horror flick, based on the Stephen King novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by King himself. That seems promising, but it turns out to be disappointing. The script is fast-paced, but way too preachy, focusing on the trite tagline: "Sometimes, death is better." The message here is painfully obvious, which makes the movie a rather dull affair. I didn't care for the actors, either. Fred Gwynne apparently enjoys his role as the shady neighbor, but he chews the scenery like there is no tomorrow. And Dale Midkiff as Louis Creed is so wooden, you can't get into his character. That's especially true in the last third, where he's acting like a total nut job.Director Mary Lambert saves this movie from being a flop. She treats us with some seriously creepy and gory scenes. But she doesn't always find the right tone. In some parts, you're not sure if you're supposed to wince or laugh. There's an undead sidekick named Victor Pascow. I guess he was meant to be funny, but it's not entirely clear. During the finale, "Pet Sematary" mutates into an exponent of the slasher genre, which is entertaining enough, but doesn't help the story at all. The ending is downright laughable. I enjoyed it quite a bit - on a trash level, mind you.You can get some thrills out of "Pet Semetary", but I can't wholeheartedly recommend it. The story is too crude and the execution too muddled.