Pet Sematary (2019)

This adaptation improves upon the wooden 1989 one but just can't overcome the silliness of Stephen King's plot about grown men, one a ER doctor for goodness sake, who - what, unable to face up to a pet cat's death? - trudge through a woods at night to make use of a magical burial ground which one of the men forgets to say only resurrects mangy demon-beasts and when the cat comes back as expected a raging, rabid monster, what do the men do but head back to the burial ground again and again to repeat the process of resurrecting as deranged murderous monsters things even more dear to them.

★★☆☆☆

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Pet Sematary (1989)

A well-meaning neighbour introduces Louis Creed to an ancient burial site that will reanimate his daughter's dead cat because the best lesson about death a child can get is to have adults pretend it doesn't happen, but the neighbour neglects to mention that all his previous experiences of reanimating the dead have resulted in foul-smelling, murderous beasts -  a considerable oversight, thanks neighbour - in Stephen King's Pet Sematary, brought to the screen here with a cast of not very expressive actors who themselves might benefit from a trip to the burial ground to be reanimated.

★☆☆☆☆

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