"Sometimes Dead Is Better" in Pet Sematary. This supernatural horror film directed by Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, written by Jeff Buhler, based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. The film follows Dr. Louis Creed, who, after relocating with his wife Rachel and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family's new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall, setting off a perilous chain reaction that unleashes an unfathomable evil with horrific consequences.
In early March 2010, development on a new adaptation of Pet Sematary with Matt Greenberg hired to pen the screenplay, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Mark Vahradian and Steven Schneider as producers, and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo as director. In late October 2017, Paramount Pictures had officially greenlit the new version of King's novel with Kölsch and Widmyer hired to helm the director's chair. By mid June 2018, Jason Clarke, John Lithgow, and Amy Seimetz had been cast as Louis Creed, Jud Crandall, and Rachel Creed, along with Jeté Laurence as Creed's daughter Ellie and twins Hugo and Lucas Lavoie as Creed's son Gage. At the same time, principal photography commenced and wrapped in mid August. Filming took place in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and was shot digitally in the widescreen 2.39:1 "scope" aspect ratio. For the ending, the filmmakers had ideas for endings, multiple endings were written and shot. In the various endings, Louis Creed is served with the terrible consequences of his desperation to keep his family together at all costs, says Kölsch. They never intended for the film to have a happy ending. One of them was the original ending from the novel. King proposed an alternate ending to the filmmakers. However, King's ending was never used. Ultimately, the final ending was chosen after getting the best responses from test audiences, according to Di Bonaventura.
The film stars Clarke, Seimetz, and Lithgow. The cast gave performances that brought their own unique iterations of the characters, as well as an intensity that differs from the performances given by the cast of the 1989 film.
With everything to work with, the cast and crew of Pet Sematary (2019) have teamed together to destroy all that we thought we knew about author King's terrifying bestseller. There were moments that were so unexpected that only the talents behind it could pull them off, yet the film is disloyal to be the horror jolter that it was expected to be. Those expecting a faithful adaptation may be disappointed. The film is somewhat a disappointment. The biggest letdown is that it contains virtually little thrills and scares. Given the talent in front and behind the camera, one's immediate reaction is that they were after something other than thrills. If so, it's hard to figure out what. Ultimately, the film is a loose, jump-scare-filled distillation of King's bestselling novel, and looms as one of the lesser King adaptations. I can't recall a more elaborately ineffective scare movie.
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