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Summary: The original Pet Sematary was much more creepy...
Review: Mary Lambert did a much better job on the first Pet Sematary. This one was ok, but I would recommend you buy the original... and maybe see this one just for fun. The original Pet Sematary should not be watched alone and night;-) It's also a really good adaptation of Stephen King's book ... And after you see the original don't expect this one to be as good, cause it's not.
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Summary: Decent sequel, but excessive gore.
Review: Mary Lambert, who also gave us the first movie, shows how imaginative and unrelenting she can be in the horror she unleashes in her movies. She crosses the line, however, with certain distasteful scenes,i.e. the kid getting hit by the truck in the first movie. It's like she's saying: "I don't care if this is considered personally incorrect or in bad taste; I'm still gonna show it!" I have to admire her for her boldness. Definitely the best female horror director. Wish she made more movies.
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Summary: Very worthy sequel
Review: Most people prefer PET SEMATARY II over the original because it's more fun and not nearly as disturbing. The original has images that stay with you for weeks, whereas the sequel is basically just a huge, fun gorefest. It still is very spooky and quite good, even though Stephen King put up a huge fight for it not to go to theaters and wanted all the video and DVD copies in the world destroyed. I think it's a very well-done sequel and you'll like it if you liked the original.
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Summary: Very worthy sequel
Review: Most people prefer PET SEMATARY II over the original because it's more fun and not nearly as disturbing. The original has images that stay with you for weeks, whereas the sequel is basically just a huge, fun gorefest. It still is very spooky and quite good, even though Stephen King put up a huge fight for it not to go to theaters and wanted all the video and DVD copies in the world destroyed. I think it's a very well-done sequel and you'll like it if you liked the original.
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Summary: Not as Good as the First!
Review: OKAY! You know the whole concept of the movie! Someone dies you bury them in the Indian Burial Ground. They once again are "ALIVE" this sequal though was weird! This Boy goes Crazy, Digs up his mother! Then expects her to be the same! Now if you saw the first movie then WE ALL KNOW! It's not the same person!
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Summary: PET SEMATARY 2
Review: PET SEMATARY 2 is the sequel to Stephen King's original PET SEMATARY. Jeff Matthews moves to the town of Ludlow with his father after his Hollywood star mother is accidentally killed while making a horror movie. Jeff makes friends with a local boy named Drew who has a dog named Zowie and a mean stepfather named Gus, who also happens to be the sheriff in Ludlow. When Gus shoots Drew's dog, Drew takes Jeff with him to bury the dog in the Indian burial ground that's next to the local Pet Sematary. When the dog comes back from the dead, Jeff begins to wonder if he should bury his mother in the burial ground. This is a decent, well-acted sequel.
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Summary: Entertaining, but not as good as the original.
Review: Pet Sematary Two is totally different from the original movie. It takes place in the same town, but with a different cast. The movie is about a 13 year old boy named Jeff Matthews, played by Edward Furlong (T2 Judgement Day, American History X) visiting his actress mother on set, while filming a low budget horror movie. While she was filming a scene, she gets electricuted and dies. Jeff and his father Chase Matthews played by Anthony Edwards (Revenge of the Nerds, TVs ER) move to Ludlow from Los Angeles to start a new life. His father was a vetinarian. Jeff goes to his first day of school and brings his kitten with him. After school, a punk named Clyde Parker takes his kitten and runs off with his friends. Jeff goes after him in his bicycle and they get to the path that leads to the Pet Sematary. Clyde and his friends tell Jeff about the rumors of the Burial Ground. Clyde offends Jeff by telling him to bury his mom in the burial ground and pray for her to come back. Jeff throws a punch at him, and Clyde goes off and kicks his ass. Jeff goes into the Pet Sematary to get his kitten out of the cage and becomes friends with Drew. An overweight kid with a mean, strict stepfather named Gus, played by Clancy Brown,(The Shawkshank Redemption)who is the town sheriff. Gus shoots and kills Drew's dog Zowie and buries him at the Indian Burial Ground with Jeff,wondering if it will work. Zowie comes back deadly and angrier. Gus gets upset and grounded Drew for lying to him saying he buried his dog. On Halloween, Jeff and Drew meet Clyde and his gang at the Pet Sematary where he told everybody about what happened to the Creed family. Gus, later finds out where Drew was at and starts to beat him. Zowie comes to the rescue and kills Gus. Drew and Jeff bury him at the Micmac Burial Ground and he comes back alive. He kills Clyde with a motorcycle, kills Drew and his mother in a head on collision with a potato truck, buries Clyde at the burial ground, digs up Renee and gets Jeff to bury her at the burial ground. She comes back killing Jeff's housekeeper, Clyde comes back trying to kill Jeff. Jeff and his dad put up a fight and kill all the dead ones and move out of the town. This movie is worth renting and watching. The first one is worth buying, but only rent this movie. It's an entertaining movie.
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Summary: drewwwww drew buddy!
Review: Pet semetary 2 is an all time classic! Though never to be taken too seriously which is much proven by mr clancy brown it excites us with horror suspense and down right hillarity.I think anthony edwards may want to forget this one because of his now high profile role in ER but Clancy brown is just so goddamn funny wether he's dripping mashed potato from his mouth or "just (...) with clyde.He really comes into his own when he comes back from the dead with his "drewwwwww, drew buddy" groans behaving in a seriously weird mannor and chasing drew his stepson with hilarious cries from his megaphone "this is the police come out with your hands up!" It seems everything he says makes me burst out laughing every time i see it especially the answer he gives Edwards when he asks him "why did you dig up my wife gus?" Pet semetary is up there with such comedy horrors as Braindead and Bad taste although i don't imagine thats what the director first planned.Although the great acting from Edward furlong and "that fat kid" do provide suspense and possible horror the real stand out character is gus gilbert, its provided with such black humor that you can't help routing for him even though he is an undead homosidal maniac. A great film through and through if you dont watch it "your breaking the law drew buddy!"
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Summary: Fady Ghaly's reviews
Review: Plot Line (partially from back cover of film)
Sometimes dead is better. But the shocking terror that plagued Ludlow, Maine, in Pet Sematary, is still very much alive in this heart-pounding sequel to the original 1989 hit that grossed out several exceptional reviews and was practically proclaimed as one of Stephen King's greatest horror films yet coming out of that persistently over-filled, imaginative mind of his.
After the death of his wife, veterinarian Chase Matthews (Anthony Edwards) and his thirteen-year-old son, Jeff (Edward Furlong), move to Ludlow to rebuild their lives. Antagonized by the neighborhood kids, Jeff befriends another outsider, Drew Gilbert (Jason McGuire), who lives in fear of his cruel stepfather, Gus (Clancy Brown.) After Gus cold-bloodedly shoots Drew's beloved dog, the boys go off and bury the body in the local Indian burial ground-a place rumored to have powers of resurrection. When evil is awakened, the boys realize that sometimes you should just let dead dogs lie.My remarks toward this picture
With dark comedic references, a music score aimed at popular culture, and a director that relies more upon gore and blood-soaked special effects than an actual précis, Pet Sematary Two is really intended for adolescents. For the only thing it really had in common with the original was presenting these graphical images of violence that are, however, definitely not intended for the squeamish; Steve Johnson really did a fantastic job with the makeup. In the contemplation that adolescents stood as primary characters, it, however, had not shed any sympathy toward either of them or grant them any extra care, for they were treated as equally as everyone else, which meant that...yes, you literally got to observe thirteen-year-olds getting slaughtered in the most heartless and horrid of ways. Pet Sematary Two doesn't rely on elements that would generally attract an average horror fan looking forward for "a good time", for it is just a very mean-spirited and cold-hearted film without any barriers or boundaries. Average slashers, although are known for explicit violence, seem to have a soft side to them, for the killers usually depart from children; they neglect expressing their feelings of rage (what else?) upon them. But Pet Sematary Two goes all the way; it has no soft side. The thing about this film that was somewhat of a bother is, as twisted as it was, it reached an extent where it became so twisted, that it really had no major significance to it, as rules initially confirmed before as to how you awaken the dead were not only broken, but ultimately it appeared as if the dead themselves were being brought back to life for no reason at all but to merely draw blood and splatter brains all over the place; it's as if director Mary Lambert-who surprisingly is also the director of the original-was deliberately mocking the entire premise of the original film. But I'm sure that wasn't his pursuit, which would mean only one thing: that he was probably attempting to somehow recreate the story and make a film that stands out from being an actual "sequel", because as one-in my opinion-it was much too complex and just didn't know how far too far can go. I mean, Christ, you not only have these alleged "soulless, maggot-luring" zombies creating havoc and destroying innocent lives without much motive to begin with, but you have zombies that are badly portrayed by the actors who were ignominiously given this eccentric, almost vivacious persona which completely ruined the feeling; the capability of eliciting belief for their inanimate hearts just wasn't there. Nevertheless, despite its failure to have as great of an affect among viewers like myself as the original had; despite the fact that Stephen King himself, Master of the Macabre, said he wanted others to be fully aware that he had absolutely nothing to do with it, it still was a good film. This is still the sort of horror film that you can sit down and watch without having to worry about drawing a smirk on your face out of pure ridicule, for it had made its way to theaters, and although Paramount Studios is known to permit the lowest-in-budget pictures to pass on by, this one was quite worthy of the big screen, too. (Unlike the very unworthy Dr. Giggles.) And while Lambert had failed to create more authentic supernatural characters, the one thing that he hadn't was creating these two very human boys that go as far as saying things like how they couldn't believe that they've suddenly lost their beloved mother or father, and that they presumed they'd never have to undergo through such unbearable matters, as they merely assumed they happened to others, when in reality they can really happen to anyone. One day you could be some vigorous kid taking pleasure of life with those you cherish...the next, you could be some miserable wreck forever grieving over the one you thought you'd never lose. The casting crew did an amazing job in selecting just the right actors for the right rolls, and I'm chiefly referring to Jason McGuire and Edward Furlong of course. Not only because Furlong, as an Award-winning actor, delivers, but also because of the laziness of such opaque, such evil-like eyes, which perfectly suit the film's hellish subject matters, and its excessively temperamental tone. The two boys were terrific together, and had you sympathize, especially Furlong as the film progresses from his mother's death, through his moments of striving for a normal life, to his inevitable state of mind when the film comes to a climax. Rarely would a horror film do that, but not every horror film is entitled "Pet Sematary Two", which, despite its flaws, was true to the human soul.
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Summary: Bury this sequel...PLEASE
Review: Read 'Pet Sematary' by Stephen King (be blown away and scared at the same time). Watch the first Pet Sematary movie (be disappointed, but be objective enough to realize that it is a fairly decent film). You'll only watch Pet Sematary Two because of the first film. You quickly realize what a terrible, terrible movie Pet Sematary Two is.
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