Nostalgia is a
powerful thing. Sometimes it makes bad things seem good. Take, for
instance, the 1989 horror flick “Pet Sematary.” It was a modest
success at the time when the horror genre was in a bit of turmoil.
Slashers were slowly on their way out and no one knew what to do with
the genre. Why not visit the Stephen King well again for what the
author has described as his scariest book? “Pet Sematary” as a
film is fine but it’s not very good.
It certainly doesn’t
hold up that much today. Even if the two year old playing Gage is
pretty decent considering he’s essentially a baby, the daughter is
pretty terrible. The film gets bogged down in boring side plots –
who the hell cares about Rachel’s sick sister? The only reason the
character scared kids is because she’s played onscreen by a man in
horrible makeup. The story of “Pet Sematary” is great, but the
final product, for all intents and purposes, is sort of a mess. And
it’s not scary – disturbing perhaps – you certainly won’t see
a studio film made today with a two year old coming back from the
dead killing people with a scalpel. The film was essentially a horror
film about grief another recent movie to tackle the difficult subject
matter was last year’s Hereditary. And now we get another version
of “Pet Sematary” that fixes everything that was slightly wonky
about the 1989 version and has a few fun twists up its sleeves.
The new iteration of
“Pet Sematary” is pretty similar to the original film for a
majority of the time. A couple moves from the busy city to the rural
comforts of Maine. There’s Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke) his wife
Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and their young daughter Ellie and baby Gage
(Hugo & Lucas Lavoie). Ellie also has a cat named Church. They
meet a weird but nice neighbor Jud (John Lithgow) who sort of becomes
a father figure to the family.
Things seem to be
going ok until Louis begins having weird visions of a college student
who was recently hit by a car and killed on the campus he works at.
Oh and there happens to be a pet “sematary” in the woods behind
the Creed’s house where all the kids in the town bury their dead
pets. And there seems to be something slightly evil just beyond the
pet sematary. In fact its an ancient burial ground that brings dead
things back to life! So when Ellie’s cat gets hit by one of the
many speeding tractor trailers that whip down their road, Jud
recommends that Louis bury the cat in the place beyond the pet
sematary. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you zombie Church. The cat in
the original film looked evil before he
was killed and zombified. The Church in the new film is precious
looking and then is all mangey.
At
this point we all know where the story is going but the film plays
with your expectations to the film’s – and our- benefit.
Screenwriters Matt Greenberg and Jeff Buhler have fun playing with an
audience who they know is seeing the film because they know the
original movie. Directors Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer know that
too. But they also know how to make this story scarier and fix things
that didn’t work in the first film. Rachel’s sister Zelda still
figures into the story but is handled in a much better way as are the
overall themes of death, grief, and the afterlife. Stephen King has
essentially given us a zombie story but told through the point of
view of a family dealing with tragedy. That’s why this story still
resonates today.
The
new Pet Sematary is scary, atmospheric, and not at all the cornball
of a movie that the original 1989 film is. Of course that movie was
certainly a product of its time and I admire its weirdness. This new
film is a bit more straightforward but its a tad less campy and
overall better paced. I
enjoyed the performances – even if no one can replace Fred Gwynne –
and the film’s third act was creepy and extremely fun. Sometimes
remakes are better. GRADE: B
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