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Pet Sematary II

Pet Sematary II (1992)

August. 28,1992
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4.9
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R
| Horror

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.

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Freaktana
1992/08/28

A Major Disappointment

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Invaderbank
1992/08/29

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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Fatma Suarez
1992/08/30

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Matho
1992/08/31

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

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Fortressofdoors
1992/09/01

I put off watching this movie for years because I just knew it was going to be bad, but my god, I didn't know it was going to be this bad.The original Pet Sematary was not perfect, but it was a decent adaption of Stephen King's book and for the most part I felt like they got it right. This frigging monstrosity was a train wreck from the beginning to end. They obviously decided to make this abomination (1992) coming off of the heels of success of Terminator 2 (1991) as it stars Edward Furlong and his other terrible acting buddy in T2, Jared Rushton. You know what, while it's fresh in my memory, everyone's acting in this movie was terrible. I'm sure the script wasn't much to work with but holy crap. I can only think to waste even more of my time by making useless points of a pointless movie, so it will contain spoilers.-The mother's electrocution at the beginning. If you've ever seen anything about electrocution, no one dies in this fashion by jerking rapidly back and forth to the object they are being electrocuted by.So corny. -The hipster dad is no way convincing as the main character's real father -His friend only knows the pet cemetery as an old ghost story, and yet he later magically knows that where the old burial ground is and how the ritual is supposed to be carried out. -When the stepfather unrealistically loses his cool and shoots the dog, they take the dog to the old Micmac burial ground to bury it.They somehow effortlessly dig a grave in minutes, when in the original, the ground was so hard it took the doc all evening to dig a grave for Gauge. - The dog comes back from the dead, but it's just like the same dog as before, just dirtier. Sometimes it growls. -The dog attacks the stepfather at the Halloween party and instantly kills him with one bite to the neck. -The two kids somehow drag the stepfather's dead weight lifeless 250 pound body all the way to the Micmac burial ground. When the stepfather comes back to life, he's like the same guy, just not grouchy. Pretty cool to be undead huh? Oh, and apparently still goes to work too. Sometimes he acts goofy. -The dad has a sex dream about his dead wife.....wearing a bad dog mask. Sheesh. -The undead sheriff for some reason digs Edward Furlong's characters mother up and totes her up to the Micmac burial ground to be buried, complete with headstone and flowers. Quite a feat. Wouldn't she have been buried back in California where she died at the beginning? -The entire scene back at the undead sheriff's house. Just...what? -The mother finally returns from the dead, and lo and behold, she looks like she just stepped out of the salon. Not a bad looker for being dead for months. -Edward Furlong gets in a fight with the undead bully (who is somehow more undead that anyone else has been so far) and defeats him by sticking a live power line in it's mouth while not getting electrocuted himself. -Some other ridiculous things happen and she decides to catch the house on fire for some reason. Father and son escape while mom decides to stand in the middle of the fire and melt (yes melt) like a bad wax figure. She has time to burn all the way to a skeleton, but the room still remains partially burning.Why am I writing all of this? I have no idea.I guess it was just such a bad movie and an insult to the original that I couldn't help myself. How someone could consider this a good, or even OK movie just blows my mind. Yes, it is that bad.

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videorama-759-859391
1992/09/02

PS2 is a sequel I like, nastier than the first, some thanks to some really unpleasant characters, one being a teen bully, Clyde, a standout performance, while another originally bad dude who's possessed, is that of local copper, Clancy Brown. It has shocking and refreshing catalyst, where Furlong's star Mum (Fluegel) is horribly electrocuted at the start, so Furlong and Dad, (Edwards (Top Gun-Goose) a vet- what a coincidence move to the wrong town, where the story of the original is redone, but a spin has been put on it. Furlong making a new friend, tries to resurrect his cat on an Indian burial ground, and guess what happens. More violent than the first, again there's a not so happy ending, but I so like this nastier film, where Brown and Clyde, are unforgettable. For fans of the first, PS 2 is a good sequel, that really works, and should not be overlooked.

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trista-902-431742
1992/09/03

I've tried to watch this movie three times (1993, 2003, and 2015) and haven't been able to finish it. I WANT to like it. But it's just disgusting and inane. I love Clancy Brown, but not enough to sit through this dreck.Nothing makes sense. The over-the-top gore and cruelty just comes across as sheer mean bloody-mindedness and isn't scary at all. Characters I care about in this film=0, so there is no horror at their deaths. There's an attempt at campiness, but it's too lame to make this a "so terrible it's awesome" movie. The only positive is the soundtrack. Dramarama, L7, Jesus & Mary Chain, Ramones...I suggest you skip watching this flick and spend some time listening to the artists whose music is featured in the "film".

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gavin6942
1992/09/04

The ancient Indian cemetery with the power to raise the dead returns and influences the lives of new residents.I must say, good or bad, I am glad director Mary Lambert returned for the sequel. As the first was her creation, it seems only fitting to let her take the characters and concepts where she wants to go with them. Had another director handled it, the film could have lost any flavor of the original that might exist. (There is some similar tone and such, which I think keeps it a strong sequel.) I love the young Edward Furlong (during his career peak) and Anthony Edwards with a beard. Great casting that keeps this film relevant even if it carried over pretty much nobody from the original. (I say "pretty much" because I think it has no one, but a minor character might have made it past me.)The film as a whole has received negative reviews, but the fact is that the original really is not that great. Although a modern classic, and a pop culture gem, it is not actually a critically good film. So the sequel by horror standards is not bad -- it actually maintains the level of the original.

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