Pet Sematary

Name: Pet Sematary
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: April 5, 2019
Duration: 101 min
Rating: 57
Cast: Alyssa Brooke Levine, Amy Seimetz, Bailey Thain, Constance St-Denis-Veilleux, Frank Schorpion

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: April 5, 2019 | R

Starring: Alyssa Brooke Levine, Amy Seimetz, Bailey Thain, Constance St-Denis-Veilleux, Frank Schorpion, Hugo Lavoie, Ines Feghouli Bozon, Jacob Lemieux, Jason Clarke, Jeté Laurence, John Lithgow, Liam Hughes, Lucas Lavoie, Maria Herrera, Naomi Frenette, Obssa Ahmed, Sonia Maria Chirila

Summary: After relocating with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke) discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family's new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), setting off a perilousAfter relocating with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke) discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family's new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall (John Lithgow), setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences.… Expand

Director: Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: R

Runtime: 101 min

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Dan Caffrey

Mar 17, 2019

Although the changes to the source material are guaranteed to polarize some Stephen King fans, Pet Sematary bucks the remake trap of simply paying homage to an iconic piece of horror. Instead, it makes drastic changes to the plot so it can ultimately go more complex with its themes. That’s a hell of a trick to pull off. Sometimes, different is better. Read full review

James Mottram

Mar 21, 2019

Led by some fine performances, this is an impressive and intense example of how to adapt Stephen King. Read full review

Peter Travers

Apr 2, 2019

The movie honors King by raising fresh hell for a new generation. It will make you jump out of your seat, but what matters are the provocations you take home and can’t shake. That’s the stuff of nightmares. Read full review

Vince Mancini

Apr 5, 2019

Pet Sematary is beautifully acted, suspensefully paced, competently staged, and overall is pretty successful at delivering that chilling sense of unease and redolent grossness that the best adaptations of Stephen King’s horror stories do. Yet its departures from the source material and from the previous, 1989 adaptation are lateral moves at best, and its capacity to ultimately deliver on the promise of its premise is middling — though not any more so than in the book or the previous adaptation. Read full review

A.A. Dowd

Apr 5, 2019

This may look like the same story, but the soul of it is missing — lost on the way out of the ground. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Apr 4, 2019

It’s ugly but not scary. It’s creepy but not chilling. It’s one of the least successful adaptations of a Stephen King story since …The last Pet Sematary. Read full review

Richard Lawson

Apr 5, 2019

I’m a pretty easy scare, but I sat through this Pet Sematary mostly unbothered. Which is certainly not the takeaway one should have from an adaptation of a Stephen King novel, let alone the one that King has said frightens him more than anything else he’s written. In this new film, you almost can’t see what he was so afraid of. Read full review

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Panchogul

May 27, 2020

Es extraño, siempre sentí aversión hacia esta película y cuando intentaba verla la paraba a los 15 minutos porque estaba empeñado en sentir rechazo absoluto, pero hoy en pleno aburrimiento decidí intentar verla nuevamente y de manera inesperada me gustó mucho, es oscura, siniestra y masEs extraño, siempre sentí aversión hacia esta película y cuando intentaba verla la paraba a los 15 minutos porque estaba empeñado en sentir rechazo absoluto, pero hoy en pleno aburrimiento decidí intentar verla nuevamente y de manera inesperada me gustó mucho, es oscura, siniestra y mas densa que la adaptación de 1989, incluso las actuaciones son mejores, quizás no sea igual de aterradora pero al menos para mí la historia en esta nueva adaptación fue más profunda y mejor desarrollada, y si vamos a comparar ambas versiones, las dos son buenas, pero personalmente me quedo con la actual.

Antes de que mi comentario genere discrepancias, la versión de 1989 recibió peores críticas que esta, la cual fue más polarizada pero equilibrada al mismo tiempo y no solo por los críticos, sino que también por los espectadores.… Expand

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Dyliebar

Apr 12, 2019

The acting is fantastic as is the atmosphere and nearly the entire second half of the film, but the film's first half is very bogged down with exposition and man, I haven't seen a movie that relied on jump scares this much since maybe Paranormal Activity 4.

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BrianMcCritic

Apr 13, 2019

The mood and atmosphere that is set up here superceded the flawed use of constant exposition and the several other flaws. I began to appreciate this film as time wore on. Overall a low 7 a B.

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GrantD243

Apr 9, 2019

Pet Sematary reminded me of the Stephen King stories that have been adapted to film by Netflix (most notably, 1922). It's fine, it was entertaining to watch, but it didn't blow me away in any way, shape, or form. I wanted to feel creeped out, but that feeling never came. The third act alsoPet Sematary reminded me of the Stephen King stories that have been adapted to film by Netflix (most notably, 1922). It's fine, it was entertaining to watch, but it didn't blow me away in any way, shape, or form. I wanted to feel creeped out, but that feeling never came. The third act also felt incredibly rushed, and in fact it felt so hurried that when the credits rolled I was actually left feeling like there should have been more. It's better than a lot of horror movies that come out these days, but it's no where near the level of The Witch, Hereditary, or IT.… Expand

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Acacia

Apr 19, 2019

When you have to use a loud truck going by as a scare in a movie, your movie might be in trouble. Saw this with a couple of friends, and none of us thiught this was a good movie. It is not scary and some of it is just hard to watch. We all spent a lot of time with our hands over our eyes.When you have to use a loud truck going by as a scare in a movie, your movie might be in trouble. Saw this with a couple of friends, and none of us thiught this was a good movie. It is not scary and some of it is just hard to watch. We all spent a lot of time with our hands over our eyes. In the end, it just becomes a gore fest. Not worth the time or money, in our opinion.… Expand

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bkristman

Apr 7, 2019

I can see this being made as a tv movie but can't see why it gets a theatre slot. Slow and tedious and you can see what's coming a mile away .

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Horrorseeker

Aug 29, 2019

Based on the terrifying novel by master of Horror Stephen King himself the film doesn't have the chops for what it's trying to offer and the directors couldn't get real with the Horror aspects of the film the film is filled with jump-scares slow pacing and driving away from it's respectedBased on the terrifying novel by master of Horror Stephen King himself the film doesn't have the chops for what it's trying to offer and the directors couldn't get real with the Horror aspects of the film the film is filled with jump-scares slow pacing and driving away from it's respected source material… Expand

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