Review of Pet Sematary (2019) by Jluis_001 — 22 Apr 2019

I really hoped this film would surprise me but with great sadness I have to say it didn't make it.

Pet Sematary doesn't even enter my top 20 of Stephen King's favorite novels and yet it's one of his most famous books.

Beyond the flaws in his prose, the general concept of that particular story makes it so attractive that I wasn't surprised at all to hear the plans of a remake.

And I really hoped it would be a good adaptation but honestly it seemed so inert and completely devoid of frights and horror, even when its atmosphere tries its best to try to induce terror.

And although many people and critics have said that the changes made to the plot don't affect the film the truth is that they actually do. Especially that Ellie is the one who dies instead of Gage.

The death and dark resurrection of Gage are more dramatic because he was only a little boy.

And also I cannot forgive them for omitting Timmy Baterman's story because that's the key moment of explaining what's in the Micmac cemetery and especially what Louis was going to provoke. It was a monumental error.

Pet Sematary is not the adaptation I expected and wanted. And it's definitely not one of Stephen King's best adaptations.