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  Review by nathaxnne [hiatus: blast injury] ★★½ 3

  The world's cutest opossum is shivering on a stump in a made-up burial ground beyond which the dead shall rise! Who will help this opossum? Poor chilly opossum! Edward Furlong is consumed with grouchiness and surliness. He will not help the opossum! But his kitten may have met a horrid end! This is maybe the mostest of the grunge-era teen horror films. Everything is run-down and dirty and disused. If something can be rusty, it is rusty. Or scored, or marked with surly teen graffiti. No one looks happy. If they start to look happy, someone shoots them an ugly glare and they stop. The realness just won't stop. It can't stop. It will not stop. 'Pet Sematary II' starts…

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★ 1

  Sometimes undead is bettah

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  Review by 📀 Cammmalot 📀 ★★½ 2

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  ”Let me know if this hurts”

  The Pet Sematary reopens, and this time Clancy Brown steals the show as he proves that sometimes not dead is better. In fact, his gonzo performance is the one thing that resurrects what would’ve been an incredibly bad film and at least makes it watchable.

  ”Drew, Daddy’s not done!”

  
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  Review by Mads Ej ★★★½

  Pet Sematary movies ranked: boxd.it/b1JQe

  This was nothing like the first movie but I still think it was fine for what it is.
  It didn’t really have that many scares or creepy scenes like the first movie, but it instead focused more on kills and gore on both humans and animals. 
  The story was good and explored the Pet Sematary from a new perspective, but most of the kills didn’t really have much emotion.
  The two young main characters did a good job and I liked them and their acting better than most of the adults. The two boys and the father was really the only likable characters, since everybody else was a bunch of bad or stupid people, who was very mean to the boys. 
  The movie was a step down from the first movie and was basically just a slasher movie, but it was still fun and not as bad as I was led to believe.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★ 1

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  Pet Sematary II doesn't have much to offer beyond some gleeful camp and gnarly horror moments, but it's clear that Mary Lambert isn't interested in extending the tragedy from the first film over to its sequel. This is less about the past that we know of Pet Sematary and more about a new narrative that evokes a few shivers and chills and goofy one-liners. It's pleasing and fun if you go in with meager expectations. Being detached from Stephen King isn't the greatest starting platform, but it offers freedom for Mary Lambert to explore, even if the story wasn't what she originally wanted to do. It has a tinge of absolute evil in the air, somewhat marred by the overt early 90s splatter and cheese. At certain developments in the film, it almost feels like Dario Argento, right down to the absolutely outrageous soundtrack. A total time-capsule that is over-hated and too often disregarded.

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  Review by belial_carboni ★★★★ 2

  Pet Semetary 2 takes the mean spirited nature of the first film and coats it with a glossy sheen of 90s nostalgia and over the top dramatics. I used to prefer the first film but over the years I've realized this is what I need in my life. A zany schlocky time capsule of flannel and grunge soaked campy carnage!!

  Opening with a gnarly bombastic electrocution scene you've got my attention! I absolutely love an over the top electrocution scene and this is one for the dang books let me tells ya! That woman's face speeding up like a fast forward locomotive darting all around holy moly! Crazy camera FX right there! My brain can't keep up!

  Clancy Brown playing…

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  Review by Ian West ★★★½

  There is this really awesome Dramarama song in this that I always end up listening to 47544 times after I watch this movie. Also, a gaggle of cute kittens, Clancy Brown, and Edward Furlong. It has its moments!

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  Review by belial_carboni ★★★½ 2

  I think Ive hit that point of my life where I prefer this to the original. The first Pet Semetary is still classic don't get me wrong but I notice more dated qualities of it nowadays. And most of the actors are wack. The Dad and daughter are just brutal. Pet Semetary 2 is just way more fun and holds up a lot better for me. Better characters and actors, more humor and charm and it has that perfect feel of autumn.

  The first Pet Semetary nails the dark themes and mean spirited vibes but it doesn't have the layers of style that Pet Semetary 2 has. Those nightmarish dream sequences are totally rad. That topless wolf head woman scene…

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  Review by Jayson Kennedy ★★½ 3

  Being a horror fan for quite a few years, it's hard to genuinely rattle me. I'm not going to be one of those asses that claim they can watch slop like Slaughtered Vomit Dolls (2006) while gleefully choking down spaghetti, but it takes a lot to make me wary of revisiting something. Mary Lambert's 1989 adaptation of Stephen King's Pet Sematary is one of those few; depressingly capturing the inescapable fate and anguish of death that runs throughout the novel.

  While Lambert returns (along with story concessions made to Paramount), that suffocating atmosphere never reappears as this sequel settles into being an average horror show. Already establishing what to expect, it rushes into characters and their pets dying, finding coffin…

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  Review by jasmin 🌙 ★★½ 2

  Well, hi there.
  Sometimes.. dead is better.. And sometimes dead comes back.
  As you may know the original Pet Sematary is one of my favorite movies so after this rewatch that was very much due I wanted to check out the sequel that everyone keeps talking about.

  This time, young Jeff looses his mother in a Final Destination-esque accident. He befriends Drew who has an abusive and annoying stepfather.
  Man, there are so many characters to hate but luckily there are a few likeable ones to get you going.
  Overall, it's a surprisingly not bad sequel. It's got great music, great performances and got me crying like 5 minutes in. It's also so over the top and the gore is pretty fantastic. I have to say, it was lots of fun.
  I do recommend but with low expectations.

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  Review by Branson Reese

  This is way better than Pet Sematary and the fact that it has a bunch of low ratings on letterboxd is proof that I’m a visionary, an iconoclast. When I die they’ll say things like “God needed that angel back in heaven” and they’ll be telling the truth (Catholicism is real and I am an angel in it)

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  Review by Scumbalina ★★★★ 4

  This was always my favorite of the two films. It's not scary but it has a lot more texture and bizarre shit happening. It shares themes with two other favorites that I watched frequently in the early 90's. Wes Craven's New Nightmare and Hello Mary Lou Prom Night 2. There's the movie star Mom electrocution scene, she in particular has always reminded me of Mary Lou. I can't fully explain the New Nightmare connection, my child brain found some similarity between them and it stuck. Nightmares? Graveyards? Something like that.

  All of the characters are memorable and well cast. Particularly Good Dad vs. Bad (step)Dad. Anthony Edwards as hot veterinarian making powerful statements in turtleneck sweaters. He has sexually confusing…