The Stephen King story has been mangled into an anonymous supernatural horror movie. Our Pet Sematary: Bloodlines review:
when it was released in 1983, you may have thought “Wow, they should adapt this into a movie.” After they did that in 1989, with director Mary Lambert’s take on the material scarring a generation of children and establishing its preeminence as a cult classic, you may have thought, “Wow, they should make a sequel to this.” They did that too,
with Lambert returning to direct a junky follow-up. After this movie was largely forgotten and more time passed, it was natural enough to think, “Well, maybe they should remake the original movie.
The generic moniker proves accurately foreboding for the run-of-the-mill film, one that desperately latches onto the goodwill of a familiar title but has nothing meaningful to add to its legacy.derives its story from a plot point omitted from the remake, but one that was a crucial source of character motivation in both the original film and King’s novel.
The film’s prequel status didn’t have to undermine it so thoroughly. There should be an added layer of despair to Jud’s predicament knowing what lies in store for him years down the road, but the script narrows him down to the point of anonymity.
angst related to the loss of American idealism moving into the ‘70s, but the film is too broad and muddled to bring that to light with any clarity.is instead content to hit its required beats without further investigation. Add in a few impotent jump scares and frenetically edited sequences of bloodshed and you’ve got a strained horror prequel that’s as shallow as it is flimsy.
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