I read this book as a kid and it scared the living shit outta me. It was the most scared I ever was in reading a book. I think I slept with the lights on the entire time I was reading it. Even Stephen King himself said this was the only story he had ever written that truly scared even him. This was a terrible interpretation of his masterpiece. Everything in this film felt rushed as though it thought the audience had the attention span of a gnat and/or as though they were assuming everyone in the audience was already familiar with the story. Pascow shows up and mumbles, "Uh, don't. Ground sour or something." and in the book he had a significant part in the story. I like the way they tried to be all diversified by making him black and then cutting most of him out of the story. Idiots. Timmy Batterman is barely mentioned in an article Louis was reading on the internet and even the trip to the grounds was like 3 seconds and they didn't even bother to make the burial ground look unique. Just a terrible, terrible, remake. I think they thought since they decided to get cheeky with the completely different outcome that it was ok to skimp on stuff like tension build up and story building. I was right to avoid this for this long.

Pet Sematary (2019) - 5 outta 10 stars