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Summary: THE BEST PET MOVIE!
Review: I give this movie 5 stars because it is the best pet movie i have ever seen and its prety scary to watch in the dark and i give this movie 5 stars because i rent it all the time!! and i cant belive that this movie got 4 stars and pet cemetary 2 got 5 stars because the first pet cemetary was way scaryer then the second one thats what i think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sincerley lorie waterist.
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Summary: Very accurate rendition of the novel.
Review: Reiterating what other reviewers have stated, "Pet Sematary" is one of the most disturbing and suspenseful books that I have ever come across. And as opposed to most Stephen King flics, which are usually half or one-star disasters, the movie, Pet Sematary is actually just as good, if not better than the novel and follows the novel very accurately.The actors used in the movie are just the way that I imagined them being in the book: down-to-earth family people, but interesting and solid. As far as I could tell, there were no inaccuracies between the novel and the movie and the few parts of the book that the movie may have omitted were unimportant, non-suspenseful sections. In a nutshell, the acting was great, the suspense was even better than in the book, and this is probably the best King film that I have ever seen.
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Summary: "Do You Know What A Graveyard Is..."
Review: It is a special day for the Creed family. Louis, his lovely wife Rachel, their daughter Ellie, and toddler Gage (Miko Hughes) have left behind the hustle and bustle of the big city for a little country living. But there seems to be a few things their realtor forgot to tell them about their new digs. First, it seems that the road that runs by their new house is like the "Indianapolis Speedway" for truckers. Second, there's a little overgrown path in their backyard that leads to a makeshift "Pet Sematary". It serves as the final resting-place for many of the pets claimed by this "highway to hell". Third...well, I'll get to that later. Louis, a new doctor at the local college, receives the dying words from an accident victim. Later that evening, Louis is visited by this ghostly apparition who warns "the barrier was not meant to be crossed." It was only a nightmare, right.....or was it??? While Louis' wife and kids are away, Ellie's cat "Church" falls victim to this deadly road. As Louis and his neighbor, Jud, (Fred Gwynne) head out to bury "Church" in the "Pet Sematary", Jud decides to take Louis beyond the barrier (of brush) up into an ancient Micmac Indian burial ground. Here they lay "Church" to rest. Well as time passes, sure enough "Church" shows back up, a little worse for wear, but alive and seemingly well. Louis believes he must have buried him alive. He reeks of an unbelievable stench that won't go away, (couldn't be the smell of death now, could it?) and he isn't quite the cat we've all come to love. He rushes over to Jud places where he find out that "dead don't stay dead" when buried up there. Their conversion quickly ends with the question "Has anyone ever buried a person up there?" Jud replies with a fearful and rather unconvincing NOOOOOOOOO!!!! Can we say foreshadowing? One day, as the family is enjoying a picnic, the unthinkable happens. Little Gage wanders out onto the "killer highway" and Crash! Boom! Bam! It isn't pretty, but the editing is so well done that it brings home the horror of the scene without the gore. (Sorry Gorehounds...but there is some really nice gore throughout the film) Blaming himself for Gage's death, Louis decides to make things right. If it worked for "Church" it's gotta work for Gage. But Louis seemed to have forgot that "Church" was soured by his resurrection. The consequences of Gage's revival are quite devastating. The imagery is quite frightening as Gage lays waste to any and all that get in his way. First there was Jud, than Mommy, and now he wants to play with his Daddy. Does the old saying go "You reap what you sow" or is it "what you sow will rip you apart"? Buy the film!!!!
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Summary: PET SEMATARY
Review: PET SEMATARY is based on the novel written by Stephen King. The film is about a family that moves into the town of Ludlow in Maine, and they find out about the local Pet Sematary and the Indian burial ground beside it. When his son is accidentally killed on the highway, Lewis Creed must decide if he should bury his son in the burial ground and see if he will come back from the dead.
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Summary: Incredible book becomes great movie!
Review: Pet Sematary is probably Stephen King's best novel, it certainly is his scariest. I enjoyed all his early books but they seemed as funny as they were scary. Not Pet Sematary though, it is the scariest most vile story I've ever read. The book is even more gruesome than the movie. The movie does a good job of translating the book to film. Just about every single detail in the novel is transferred to the movie, the only thing I remember that was left out was Norma Crandall(Jud's wife) other than that the transition is very faithful to the novel. THe story itself is awesome and very original. A family of 4 with 1 cat move to a house in Maine. Behind their house is a Pet Sematary. A magical yet evil place where the dead are resurrected, with disastrous consequences. Horror movies don't get any better than this.
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Summary: Disturbing.
Review: When on a trip to Hawaii, I read the novel "Pet Semetary" in
three days. I was hooked. The book was covered with unrelenting suspense and scares, and shocks, I couldn't stop! I hadn't seen the movie, and I planned to after I finished the novel. Well, maybe if I'd not read the book, the movie would have been better to me. There's lots of little sub-plots in the book that are completely ignored in the movie. For one, where is Norma Crandall, Jud's sick wife whom is saved on Halloween night from a heart attack by Louis Creed? She is absent in the film. She doesn't exist, and she's never mentioned. To bad. Lots of other sub-plots are avoided. I don't expect a movie to have every single thing that the novel had... but still, this one left out WAY to much. Also (MAJOR SPOILER!) after Gage gets hit by a truck, Louis decides to dig him up. In the novel, this took ten or fifteen pages of Louis trying to climb over a very tall gate and getting cut, stabbed, all sorts of things, while trying not to get caught by the police. This was a scary, suspensful part of the novel. But, in the movie, the gates about three feet high and Louis just has to walk over it! (END OF THE SPOILER) Most of the actors in this were wooden, with the exception of Fred Gwynne as Jud and Miko Hughes (Kindergarden Cop, Spawn, Appolo 13, Wes Craven's New Nightmare). I have to say, Hughes deserves an oscar or something for his many performances (take that Haley Joel Osment! You can't even act!). (MORE SPOILERS!) It's pretty dificult to, at the age of two or three, play a zombie killer that cuts old men up and eats their neck. Sure, thi scenes are pretty darn sickening, but they're so scary! I think Dale Midkiff did pretty bad until the end when you saw he was going loony. The movie's not epic or anything, but I still feel if someone would just watch it, they'd see that Miko Hughes deserves an oscar for his hard performance. He was also great in Wes Craven's New Nightmare. (END SPOILER) Anyway, whenever you read a book, you get your own ideas of what characters look like. I though Tom Atkins would make a fine Louis Creed, and his wife was NOT Denise Crosby, but more like Lisa Zane. The girl who played Ellie couldn't act at all, and when she cried she sounded more funny than sad. Zelda (Rachel's sick sister from her flashbacks) WAS scary until I found out it was a man and couldn't stop laughing (he does look rather mannish in some scenes, particularly the "Never get out of bed again" scene). The DVD's pretty much featurless, aside from a widescreen transfer. Big dissipointment. All in all, Pet Semetary is a good rainy day movie, and I'm very sorry if I didn't give much detail into the movie. I don't really know what to say.
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Summary: Five Stars For Fred!
Review: First the confession: I rented this DVD because I am a fan of the late great Fred Gwynne. As a character actor, the man had no peers, and his work in this scary flick makes it an instant classic! There have been surprisingly many negative reviews of this film, but I just don't see why. When I watch a film, I kick back and let the film take over. It seems as though too many folks are busy dissecting films (leave that to the critics), rather than getting absorbed by them.Pet Sematary draws in the viewer with a deceptively simple story, then keeps on tugging at your nerves with one engaging scene after another. While mildly predictable, it is the overall presentation of this film that makes it worthwhile. The whole cast is very good, along with the photography, and lighting. This film is a cult classic for good reason! Pet Sematary is prime Stephen King. This film is a unique and entertaining horror/science fiction trip into the hell that IS evil. Even in mortal terms, we don't understand it,and we don't understand life after death either. So its fascinating when a brilliant author puts his/her imagination to work, beckons questions, makes us wonder, and scares the hell out of us in the process. The film has some violence and gore, but its not random like in your typical slasher film..this is dark, suspense-building story-telling at its best..all the pieces fit, and everything about this film makes it a must see.. Add Pet Sematary to your collection today!
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Summary: Very Gory
Review: This movie is extremely gory. At times I had to turn my head and I can almost watch anything. The plot is a little shaky though, there are a lot of unexplained events. I recommend it for those who like gory and violent movies. Also I recommend reading the novel by Stephen King first because it will help explain much of the plot.
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Summary: macrabe
Review: Huh?
if you like necromancy perhaps you will like this.
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Summary: Fady Ghaly's reviews
Review: Pet Sematary is undoubtedly my favorite adaptation of any of Stephen King's fictional novels, which is nothing like such ludicrous ones as The Mangler, Creepshow or Graveyard Shift, and if you assume that it is, you're in for a big surprise. A grieved father, indistinctly conscious of the abilities the Indian burial ground has, attempts to provoke his son from beyond the grave in this highly distressful and forceful film that contains a strong moral to it. Now, the thing that elevates it from many others such as the titles in which I have previously brought up is the complex performances and astonishing human psychology that you'll witness here. The father's personality becomes so badly affected with a mixture of other emotions that ultimately overpower his sanity and force him to fulfill upon these actions despite of warnings by eerie spirits. This isn't just fun and games-another comical horror that gives you the opportunity to root for the killer's demise, because he's merely an innocent little boy who did nothing to deserve what happened to him, which may be the reason many have disliked it and found it to be as disturbing as they have; it is a complete injustice.
Rarely ever does a picture from such a genre have that great of an affect upon me, and it has since been the only. But, as a horror film, it wasn't really what you may call "terrifying" or anything like that, but it was rather the mere premise of it that haunted me so, as it was that way to many others as well. Dale Midkiff did a great job at portraying Dr. Louis Creed, the father of the family who eventually reaches his breaking point; Fred Gwynne did just as compelling of a job as his close neighbor, Jud Crandall, who seems ordinary enough, but knows enough of the unordinary to keep his mouth shut; and Miko Hughes especially, at the age of twenty-nine months old, did an incredulously spectacular job as the child whose life ended much too soon.
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