FILM: Pet Sematary (dirs: Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer, 2019)

"It's a good thing you're not a f***ing vet!"

This 2019 version of the well-known Stephen King novel and its 1989 movie counterpart is somewhat slow but adequate, and its effectiveness will clearly depend upon the extent to which the viewer is familiar with those earlier incarnations.  Apart from a couple of scenes with mobile phones, this film could indeed have been from those earlier times, and the emphasis wisely remains on the simple and small-scale storytelling that King mined to good original effect.  There is some atmospheric cinematography and a typically hauntingly lovely Christopher Young score, but overall Pet Sematary 2019 is rarely more than a low-key but acceptable re-telling of a familiar story.