38. Review of Pet Sematary (Dir. Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, 2019) [Potential Spoilers]

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I sadly never got around to seeing Pet Sematary when it was first released in cinema, so I was more than pleased when it popped up on my Netflix home page.

Adapted from Stephen King's 1983 novel by the same title, Pet Sematary is a horror film which follows a doctor and his family as they move away from their busy lifestyle and towards what they hope to be a calmer one in a rural woodland area. 
The film takes a sinister turn quite near the start, including the family's cat is being found dead and the father having to bury it in the "Pet Sematary" in the woodlands, only for the cat to turn up alive and seemingly well the next day.

Things take on a domino effect from here as the reality of what the Pet Sematary is and the forces which brought the cat back, leading for the film to get progressively more spooky and distressing, intertwining the family's past demons with their present and leading to a horrific ending.

This film did not fail to give me shivers and have me hiding behind my hands, which in my books makes this a decent horror film, though it is in no way the scariest film I have ever seen.
I generally like Stephen Kings narratives; IT, The Shining etc, and I feel this story lives up to King's blueprint of horrific mixed with the supernatural. 

I really enjoyed this film, and I would definitely recommend to anyone else who enjoys a mild horror from time to time. 

~ Paige Nicole

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