Rotten Tomatoes score: 57%
“Pet Sematary” stars Jason Clarke as Louis Creed, an ER doctor and father of two, who lives in Ludlow, Maine. The family’s home is located on a busy highway, and an older neighbor, Jud (John Lithgow), cautions the family to be careful with their pets and young children around it.
When the family cat, Church, is hit and killed, Jud takes Louis to an eerie pet cemetery located behind their property that can reanimate the dead. But, famously, sometimes dead is better.
The second screen version of King’s 1983 novel “Pet Sematary” significantly changed the ending of the original story, which rubbed some fans the wrong way.
“The film is awfully smug about its wicked, unthoughtful new direction, which leads to a climax that is downright silly and, it must be said, kind of dull in all its blunt and hurried escalation,” wrote Richard Lawson for Vanity Fair.
