Pet Semetery review (2018 remake)

I think the hard changes made to play with the expectations of people who saw the first movie are really interesting. The truck hit and the achilles tendon. Otherwise yeah it's not great. Which isn't to say to they work, necessarily. They're both very much, "hohoho, you expected this but instead you get this." If you felt trolled, you're not wrong. But the sequences are very well executed tension and then there's just enough space after what should have happened. You're reevaluating your expectations and BAM it happens anyway. It's been a minute since I seen this version and I haven't read the book. The different kid dying led to minor plot issues. The baby couldn't talk about "Paxcow" or however its spelled. But they worked around it in what seemed to me an acceptable way. Was there more that was screwed up by that choice? Overall unnecessary. I kind of like the ending but I'm a sucker for supernatural evil winning. It's good to murder babies in horror movies. That's horrible which was the point all along. And strictly speaking, you're here arguing that you wanted that baby to be hit by a truck.

It's just Pet Semetery on a different level of the tower.

The one thing that this version of the story did well was give Rachel a bit more agency, and let her actually react to her child coming back to life. Her disgust at the idea, and her line “you dig her up” is really good.  It might be my only complaint about an otherwise perfect book that Rachel starts the book as such a strong character with her own back story and her own plot points, and then she races home just to be killed “off screen” and never gets to confront her husband or really react to what’s going on.  Otherwise, the 2018 movie botched pretty much every other aspect of the story. Especially the ending. For all the silly jokes people make about Stephen King being bad at endings, the end of Pet Semetary is perfect. If they had at least kept and nailed the original ending, it would have made the whole thing worthwhile. I have no idea why anyone would think the new ending was better than the book and original movie. 

This is a clickbait post right? OP you do know there is a better version of the story, right? The original Pet Sematary movie from the 80s.

yeah, that remake was a total flop. they really missed the mark on the core themes of the book, which is such a bummer for fans like us.

I thought the bait and switch with the kids was fun, and a neat way to provide a surprise in a story that’s been done to death. It’s also a lot easier to make a teenage girl scary on film than a toddler. I can’t take the ending of the 1989 movie seriously, even if it does work on the page.

Overall I thought the movie was pretty bad, but my biggest grievance is the relationship between Louis and Jud. The very first sentence of the book establishes Jud as a father figure to Louis, and the theme runs throughout. In this movie it's portrayed like Louis doesn't even *like* Jud.  And yeah, the bait and switch with the kids was pointless. 

I put *Pet Semetary '18* and *Mortal Kombat '21* in the same boat, as they were films that had potential to be vastly superior to their previous adaptations...and they do everything in their power to not be any better (aside from technical improvements like budget and effects).

It's not like the 80's one was a cinematic masterpiece.

I honestly liked it a lot. Ending was tight

I can't take that first sentence seriously so the review died for me there. Good bye.

Books great did NOT bother with any other adaptation :P