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PET SEMATARY ***
Dir: Kevin Kölsch & Dennis Widmyer (15, 100 mins)
Stephen King’s unsettling horror gets another film outing, despite a perfectly creepy 1989 version from director Mary Lambert. Jason Clarke plays Louis Creed, who moves with his wife Rachel (Amy Seimetz) and kids Elllie and Jud (Jeté Laurence and Hugo Lavoie) to a rural home. It’s next to a creepy pet cemetery, complete with weird markings, strange traditions and rituals. Something else resides there, something the Native American tribes who used to live there feared. After their cat is run over by a truck, the family bury the moggy there and it comes back as a rather nasty CGI-augmented creature. An even greater tragedy strikes as young daughter Ellie is also run over chasing after said cat. Her father foolishly buries her in the same place, hoping that she too will come back. Much nastiness and jump scares ensue. Boasting a very dark tone, an 80s throwback vibe and some truly disturbing imagery, this version of Pet Sematary ticks all the same boxes as the original. The spinal meningitis endured by Rachel’s sister Zelda (Alyssa Brooke) has been given added uncomfortableness here by making her younger, whilst John Lithgow adds gravitas as the kindly neighbor tasked with heavy exposition duties. King’s disturbing examination of grief still unsettles. Opens Apr 4