Friday, 26 January 2024

VOD: Pet Sematary Bloodlines (dir: Lindsey Anderson Beer, 2023)

"Death is different here."

This old-school-DTV-style prequel is set in 1969, telling the backstory of the town with the infamous cemetery in the woods with the power of (bad) resurrection through three now-young-adult friends, one of which is back from the war but disturbingly changed.  The film is adequately mounted and presented, and the story weaves together solid ideas on the Vietnam War, Native-American lore and small-town insularity, but the overall telling of this (unnecessary) tale proves to be less than compelling.
 

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