Fortressofdoors 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.

bowmanblue Yes, after 'Terminator 2' it seemed that Edward Furlong was going to be the next 'big thing' in Hollywood. Unfortunately, due to his own personal demons, that never happened and he's remembered more as someone who could have had it all, rather than an A-list actor. However, before he went off the rails, he made 'Pet Sematary 2' and it's not that bad (especially for a sequel).The original 'Pet Sematary' was based on Stephen King's book of the same name and was a pretty dark and bleak little affair. The sequel's tone does its best to follow that, but does tend to succumb to a few clichés which do bring it down a bit. Edward Furlong and his dad move to the same town where an old Indian burial ground brings anything interred there back from the dead (with the only drawback being that they're borderline psychotic and largely lethal). Before long, circumstances spin out of control and every man and his dog is being buried there... and therefore coming back ready to murder anyone that stands in their path.It's no classic, but there are a few quite creepy scenes (even if you can tell it's just someone in a monster mask, it's shot well enough to be a bit disturbing). Also, Clancy Brown does stand out as pretty damn nuts as the local lawman.It's not as good as the first, as it's not as bleak, plus I mentioned the clichés – i.e. new family in a town, meets bullies at school and so on. However, based on the fact that most sequels to horror films are largely not even worth putting on, this one is actually pretty good.

Rich Wright It's not gonna win any Oscars or even be remembered a few days after you see it, but what you have here is a good, solid horror film with lots of nice, bloody deaths and a fine performance by one Clancy Brown as a nasty sheriff... who isn't much nicer before he's resurrected. It has it's fair share of silly scenes, but makes up for it never giving us a moment's peace once things get going... and the last part is one big slice 'n dice after another. It's a better film than it's predecessor, and I was pleasantly surprised how much it gripped me. Worth a look.Two final thoughts: 1: It's nice to someone who understands that when you THINK a person who tried to kill you is dead, it's better to shoot their corpse repeatedly just to make sure. And 2: What happened to the cute kitten that goes walkabout in the second half without any explanation, only to reappear for the obligatory happy ending? Get Poirot on it now... 6/10

gavin6942 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.