Pet Sematary: Bloodlines (2023)

• Year: 2023
• Released: 06 Oct 2023
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14145436/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/pet_sematary_bloodlines
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 1080p
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Fantasy, Horror
• Runtime: 87 min
• Writer: Lindsey Anderson Beer, Jeff Buhler, Stephen King
• Director: Lindsey Anderson Beer
• Cast: Henry Thomas, Samantha Mathis, David Duchovny
• Keywords: cemetery, sequel, prequel, remake, gore, pet cemetery,

	4.7/10
	20% – Critics
	54% – Audience

Pet Sematary: Bloodlines Storyline

In 1969, a young Jud Crandall has dreams of leaving his hometown of Ludlow, Maine behind, but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family history that will forever keep him connected to Ludlow. Banding together, Jud and his childhood friends must fight an ancient evil that has gripped Ludlow since its founding, and once unearthed has the power to destroy everything in its path. Based on the never before told chapter from Pet Sematary, Stephen King’s chilling novel, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines is a spine-tingling prequel exploring the origins of how death became different in the small town of Ludlow and why sometimes dead is better.

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Sometimes dead is better…Please kill the franchise!

I don’t often say this about a movie and I apologize in advance to those I’m going to offend by saying this, but ‘Pet Sematary: Bloodlines’ is a complete mess.

Honestly, this movie never know what it wants to be. Is it a slasher movie? Is it a zombie movie? Is it a possession movie? Whatever it is, it certainly has very little to no connection to Stephen King’s original idea. This is nothing more than a B-movie slasher hoping to cash in on a famous title.

There is just so much wrong with this movie that I can’t even go into detail with all the issues that bothered me. I enjoyed 2019’s ‘Pet Sematary’ more than expected, and was looking forward to this installment. Set in 1969, this acts as a prequel. The families of the small town of Ludlow is keeping a secret from their children. All is about to change when Bill Baterman (David Duchovny) buries his son Timmy in the cemetery, and he returns as a living dead.

Timmy’s long-time friends are Judson and Manny. Judson and his girlfriend Norma is about to leave town when they encounter a very sick looking dog looking in the middle of the road. Recognizing the dog as Timmy’s, they take the dog back to his place, where Norma is viciously attacked by the creepy dog, leaving her hospitalized.

Timmy’s strange behaviour made Judson suspicious, and now he wants to find out what is going on. The characters jumped to conclusions so quickly that I thought I missed some information along the line. The film is over-dramatized so prematurely that the second act already felt like the third act. Researching the town’s history, Judson realize there are family secrets going back generations – and his life is about to become a living nightmare.

Very little of Stephen King’s story remains here. The film relies heavily on jump scares and gore to keep the viewer engaged. Nothing in this movie is well explained and I was never convinced it was actually the cemetery that brought the victims back to life.

And speaking of which – and here are spoilers – soon after Timmy attacks Manny’s sister, Donna, she suddenly behaves like the living dead. But, when did Timmy bury her and why was this not shown? Must we simply assume he buried her? Or did she simply turn into the living dead because he – being living dead himself – attacked her? So, it’s like a zombie movie now? And then she goes straight to Norma to kill her. Why? And why was Norma abducted? It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

The film felt like a bunch of ideas blended together without any of them mixing very well. I also didn’t really care about any of the characters – not even Judson as the film’s protagonist. ‘Pet Sematary: Bloodlines’ was a huge disappointment, and utterly forgettable. Give this one a skip.

Jud Crandall is much younger in 1969

Jud Crandall is much younger in 1969, compared to him being an old man in 1989, which kind of makes no sense from the start.

Jud Crandall would have been in is fourties in this movie in 1969, yet now he is just a young man who is not even 30.

If you fast forward to 1989 he look like a 65 year old retired man.

If you can get pass that the movie is really not that bad, at least not on the level of the bad rating its getting anyways.

I love the casting of actors, pam grier, david Duchovny, the main lead blonde is really hot and easy on the eyes.

The story is the same as in all pet cemetery movies, its an ok way to pass 2 hours but very forgettable.

Even worse than the remake

As far as I’m concerned, there are only two films in this franchise and they are the first two chapters, STOP!!! Now Hollywood is finished, it has no more ideas and does nothing but carry on with sequels, requels, remakes, prequels ruining great sagas born in the glorious 80s, today it only produces rubbish, in fact I hope that the actors’ strike continues and that this situation destroy all of Hollywood and perhaps make it reborn in a serious way, producing fewer films, but more high-quality ones, and fewer sequels, reboots and the like because today we are faced with one of the worst periods, from a qualitative point of view.

Having made this necessary premise, let’s get to this “Bloodlines”.

The film is a total disaster in every respect, boring, useless, badly acted and shot, the gore is absent, there isn’t a murder that sticks out, I still remember the magnificent murders of Judd in the first Pet Semetary or of the bully in Pet Sematary 2, bloody and imaginative murders, in this prequel they are truly forgettable.

But the worst thing is that, as already happened in the terrible remake of 2019, this film lacks pathos, pain, the mourning process, everything is told in a superficial way, in the first film you could see the heartbreak of the family for having lost their child, as in the second film we saw the boy’s pain for the loss of his mother, in this prequel there is none of this.

I hope that producers realize that for a few years they have done nothing but ruin great classics, and I hope that the failure of this rubbish and other rubbish makes them understand that perhaps it is time to change the trend.