Review of Pet Sematary (1989) by Kim Newman for Empire — 01 Jan 2002
One of the problems is that King usually writes about cliche subjects so well that you don’t notice the hackneyed aspects of his books, and so when all the character detail, precise backgrounding and elaborate plot setting-up mechanisms are pruned away, all you get is a dumb TV movie with characters doing insanely stupid things to prolong the agony.
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This review of Pet Sematary (1989) was written by Kim Newman and published by Empire on 01 Jan 2002.
Pet Sematary has generally received mixed reviews.
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