Variety
Pet Sematary marks the first time Stephen King has adapted his own book for the screen, and the result is undead schlock dulled by a slasher-film mentality - squandering its chilling and fertile source material.
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The Washington Post
One of the key lines in both film and book is "Sometimes dead is better." Sometimes, though, read is a whole lot better.
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The New York Times
[Pet Sematary] has some effectively ghoulish moments, though most of these (like the suicide of a chronically depressed Maine laundress) have no particular point.
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Empire Magazine
Literary success fails to make the leap to film again, with another hacked-up, sloppy screenplay from King.
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Pet Sematary (1989) is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV.