Movie Review: Pet Sematary (1989)

The movie starts out rather slow. One might argue that the first 30 minutes are negligible since you could technically skip them and still get the full picture. The acting performances by the cat, Church’, were surprisingly well executed. I was positively surprised by that. Shooting scenes with feline actors is much more challenging than shooting with dogs. Go figure.

Overall it was a great movie. The only thing that I didn’t like, apart from the slow pacing at the beginning, was the inherent predictability of the story and the setting. The Creed family moved into a rural house that was literally surrounded by 3 things; a spooky pet cemetery, a busy highway (where many of the pets from the cemetery found their demise), and a neighbor who seems to know more about the history of the pet cemetery. You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to connect the dots and arrive at a fairly accurate assumption of what’s about to happen. It’s quite self-evident that the highway will claim yet another victim and that the pet cemetery is somehow going to play a role in the almost certain “bad outcome”.

But don’t get it twisted; the movie still manages to pull off a good scare towards the end, despite it’s predictable nature.

Final Verdict: you can watch it (it’s not the scariest movie nor is it the worst)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098084/

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