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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 ★★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 Pumpkin 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

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Review by deadlyrivers ★★★

31 Days of Halloween, day 17
Not great, but fun when we get a scenery-chewing Clancy Brown fucking shit up.
Review by Stephan ★★★

Horrorctober 2017 – The House of Horrorctober

Im Vergleich zu "Friedhof der Kuscheltiere" mit einigem mehr an Splatter versetzt, funktioniert er als Film sogar noch einen Ticken besser als der manchmal etwas zu gemächtliche Vorgänger. Edward Furlong spielt nach "Terminator 2 – Tag der Abrechnung" mit Jeff fast wieder die gleiche Rolle und ist damit auch das schwächste Glied in der Kette, denn sowohl Jared Rushton als Bully, Anthony Edwards als Vater von Jeff in einer schönen Pre-"Emergency Room"-Rolle, als auch Jason McGuire in seiner ersten Filmrolle überhaupt spielen Furlong locker gegen die Wand. Durch die Wand hindurch hämmert ihn dann ein fantastischer Clancy Brown als Sheriff Gus Gilbert der nach und nach immer wahnsinniger wird und sich fast in Kurgan-mäßigen Höhen aufschwingt. Mit einem anderen Hauptdarsteller wäre also durchaus ein richtig fieser und dabei überzeugender Film herausgekommen. So bleibt eine Steigerung zum Vorgänger, die aber durchaus höher ausfallen hätte können.
Review by Brett (Artpig) ½

My sisters fiance- "How do you kill a dead guy?"

My mom- "Is that a joke?"
Review by Jeff Gallashaw ★★

Now this is more of a Nostalgic look at this film. As this was probably the first horror film I saw in a theater. Before hand I took my precautions as CHILD'S PLAY 2 was almost my first choice. I read the reviews on this movie beforehand to prepare myself for whatever the film was ready to throw at me. Trust me I wasn't quite prepared for the amount of gore. I could stand the more intestinal stuff but not things like puss that were presented.

I will admit what made me want to see the film was Edward Furlong as I was a fan of his from TERMINATOR 2 and this was his big follow up movie. Him and…
Review by John Shelton ★★

Sometimes dead is better, indeed.

Although bonus points for being so unexpectedly 1992 grunge-soaked. L7 and the Jesus and Mary Chain are on the soundtrack! Flannels abound!
Review by Kirby Monsoon ★★½

Mary came back with fresh ideas and gave us.
well, something....
Review by Adam ★★★½

Bonus star for Clancy Browns wonderfully campy and creepy performance.
Review by Harrison ★★

4.5/10

"No brain, no pain...think about it."
Review by xHal9000x ★★★

Hoop-Tober 2017 parte 9:

Qué alegría me genera encontrarme con una película que marcó mi infancia (hace más de 10 años) en la TV. Y mejor aún, encontrarme con una película mejor de lo que esperaba teniendo en cuenta su estatus.

Secuela de la de 1989 que estaba basada en una novela de Stephen King y que también marcó (arruinó) mi infancia, ésta opta por un camino con más humor (intencional, al menos para mí) pero con un nivel gore y de truculencia que no sé si lo tenía la primera parte. La película peca de querer meter demasiado en poco tiempo, lo que hace el guion sea bastante disperso, pero quizá eso es parte de su encanto.

Muertes (muy sádicas y explícitas) de niños; animales y humanos volviendo de la ultratumba (Clancy Brown está genial por lo aterrador) y ese cementerio indio que es material de pesadillas. Una película que hoy ya no se podría filmar.

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