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Pet Sematary II

1992 Directed by Mary Lambert

Raise Some Hell.

The "sematary" is up to its old zombie-raising tricks again. This time, the protagonists are Jeff Matthews, whose mother died in a Hollywood stage accident, and Drew Gilbert, a boy coping with an abusive stepfather.

Edward Furlong Anthony Edwards Clancy Brown Jared Rushton Sarah Trigger Lisa Waltz Darlanne Fluegel

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Review by Hollie Horror ★★½ 8

Why wasn't Edward Furlong's dad a little more concerned about what his son was doing in the attic with the bed, lights, vanity and his dead mother's clothes on mannequins? From now on I'm going to watch this as a prequel to Maniac.
Review by nathaxnne walker (undead) ★★½ 2

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…
Review by Travis Lytle ★★½

Missing the opportunity to expand the mythos of its predecessor, Mary Lambert's "Pet Sematary Two" is a watchable but routine horror sequel. Instead of developing the robust and chilling narrative threads of the original film and novel, the sequel is content to just spew gore and jump scares. While those scares are related to the first film's notorious burial ground where the dead return to life, they are played out in service of a limited piece of work.

Placing a different family in the Maine setting of the original film, "Pet Sematary Two" rehashes plot points from "Pet Sematary" but neither builds on them nor takes them in interesting directions. People and animals die and, then, are brought back to…
Review by Daniel Rodriguez ★★½

It seems that some crazy fan burried the original Pet Sematary movie on the indian graveyard behind the pet cemetery in Ludlow, resulting in the creation of a film that tries to pass by Pet Sematary when it's just a soulless and rottened version of it.
Review by No-Personality ★

Film #23 of the 2017 Hooptober season.

I've seen films which others consider to be perplexing yet make a strange kind of sense to me. They even tend to come in a certain breed- I mean, you tell me what Troll 2, Nightmare City, and Troma's Evil Clutch all have in common. Of course... none of those films were produced from the creative viewpoint of being a sequel. Sequels in American film production are often saddled with the audience expectation that there is a continuity held over from the previous film which need be maintained. Though, in the case of Pet Sematary, there is no story left to facilitate a sequel. The bare minimum of remaining thread there involves us…
Review by Austin Wolf-Sothern ★★★★½ 1

This is a super fun-crazy movie with a gleefully over-the-top demented performance from Clancy Brown and a perfectly Furlongian performance from Edward Furlong. I really love that Mary Lambert’s primary reason for making this film was to try to figure out why teenage boys are so stupid and do such stupid shit, and I can’t tell if she came up with any answers or not, but the results are amazing either way. It also has an awesome soundtrack and uses L7’s "Shitlist" two years before Natural Born Killers!

Chainsawktober Film #13: Sequel, Female Director

Recent reviews

Review by Comrie ★★★

At least +1 star for Clancy Brown playing an utter loon
Review by Un fulano ★★★

-Why did you dig up my wife?
-Cos I wanted to fuck her.

La irresistible secuela rara y loca que pocos todavía recordamos con cariño. Es todo una excusa barata para un sindiós de escenas grotescas que no acaba de decidirse por un tono concreto o varios a la vez, pasando del humor al terror y al melodrama de sobremesa sin concierto ni vergüenza.

Tiene un montón de gore excelentemente resuelto (con predominio de animatrónicos y pringues de animales), la dirección de Lambert continúa siendo puro punk rock, aunque obviamente muchísimo menos inspirada que en la original, el reparto masculino adulto está muy acertado y la BSO demuestra otra vez un gusto excelente.

Ridícula todo el rato pero satisfactoria hasta finalizar los créditos. A veces cuesta trabajo creer que se trata de una película seria de una major destinada a salas de todo el mundo; y eso también lo recuerdo con cariño.
Review by brandocalreezy ★½

[to the tune of “I Love Rock and Roll”]

“I love Clancy Brown. He’s very fun to watch in all his movies!”
Review by Ktswings ★★★

First movie I ever paid for my family to see bc my first crush was Edward Furlong. It gets a +1 pathetic star for that.
Review by Tyler Warren ★★★★

Probably the piece of Stephen King media that captures the feel of his work best; really has the guts to go where his stories do. Plus, it is all filtered through what is essentially a feature length Madonna music video -- complete with breathtaking dolly work and expressive lighting set-ups. I have no idea why I underrated this so much before.

Long live Lambert. Give her Pet Sematary III instead of Andy Mush-sucks-etti the inevitable remake.
Review by Andrew Garland ★★★

What the hell this movie is actually tolerable.

BTW I really want a version of this where Clancy Brown plays the same role but uses Mr. Krabs’ voice.
Review by Matt Cohen ★★★★

Thanks Mary :)))
Review by Evan Preedy ★★★ 1

You know that we are living in a material world,
And Edward Furlong a material girl
Review by CDR ★★★

I'm not defending it being a good movie. Like at all. This is bad, but man this was entertaining. It was so out there that it was so interesting. Clancy Brown gives a great over-the-top performance that should be noted. Oh, and they only put Edward Furlong in this because T2 came out the year before, and he's fine in this. It's over the top, but really fun.