This movie is not scary. It is just a lot of hype. I has an awful story line. It has an awful ending. Pet Sematary 2 is a lot better. Do not see this movie. Just see Pet Sematary 2. This a 4. Not a 6.6

"Pet Sematary" is another adaptation of a Stephen King novel. Oddly enough, the cemetery is only incidental to the plot. The real center of the story revolves around an old Mic Mac burial ground located above the pet cemetery in an isolated area.A young family, the Creeds, moves to rural Maine from Chicago. The father, Louis (Dale Midkiff) is a doctor taking up a post at the local hospital (I think). His faithful wife Rachel (Denise Crosby) and their two young children, Ellie (Balze Berdahl) and Gage (Miko Hughes) settle in. They meet their neighbor, the mysterious Jud Crandall (Fred Gwynne) who tells them of a "pet semetary" located at the end of a path leading from the Creeds property.The Creed home and that of Crandall are separated by a busy highway over which travel large trucks at high speeds. The "sematary" apparently was established by the local children to bury their pets that were killed on the highway.At work, Louis tends to the injuries of Victor Pascow (Brad Greenquist). The man dies but in the process vows to help Louis through any crisis, a sort of guardian angel. And yes, only Louis is aware of Victor.When Rachel and the kids go to Chicago for Thanksgiving, Their pet cat "Church" is killed. Rather than tell Ellie of the tragedy, Crandall takes Louis to a hidden graveyard once used by the Mic Mac Indians. The grave yard possess magical powers by which a body buried there will rise (rather quickly) from the dead. Louis buries the cat there and lo and behold, the next evening...the cat came back. The rejuvenated pet has become aggressive toward Louis however, he manages to keep his gruesome secret from his family.Now this is where it gets really interesting. One sunny afternoon at a family picnic, little Gage wanders onto the highway and is killed. After a traditional burial, Louis sends his family to Chicago. Louis distraught over his son's death, exhumes his body and despite warnings from Crandall and Pascow, takes the little boy to the Indian graveyard. The little boy comes back to life and................................A lot of blood and gore in this one folks. The make up on the Pascow character is unbelievable. The violence at the film's climax results in much bloodshed. How they got little Miko Hughes (and his dummy double) to do what they do is really amazing. The hanging suicide of washer woman Missy (Susan Blommaert) although gruesome (and well done), adds little to the story line except to provide a venue for Stephen King's cameo.

The movie itself isn't bad. They do a decent enough job keeping close to the source material for an hour-and-a-half movie from an almost 400 page book. There are some glaring omissions, but overall it's fine. That being said, the only three good actors in this entire movie are Fred Gwynne (Jud), Andrew Hubasteak (Zelda) and 2 year old Miko Hughes (Gage). The two who played Louis and Rachel are atrocious, and that's bad considering the movie is based more around them than anyone else. Truly two of the worst lead actors in cinema history. People like to say stuff like Troll 2, Plan 9, The Room, Battlefield Earth, etc. have some horrendous acting, well look no further than Pet Semetary for acting that lives right up there with those movies.

one of the worst horror films I seen with too much hype. it is stupid, really badly acted and directed. the story just doesn't make any sense at all, it's just disjointed events connected together and things happen just because. after seeing this you get to appreciate the works of masters such as Kubrick who also did a Stephen King's book, the shinning. but he made it much better than it was. I think Stephen king is overrated in general. he should never have made films, he fails as a filmmaker.if you love Stephen King and must watch his work, he has better films. the movie IT is better made, even though it has flaws also; but at least it's entertaining enough with some good material that it can sustain itself.